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photo from the Socialedge Kiva Chronicles blog
Over the past few years there has been a new brand of charitable organization helping people around the world: the microloan charity. It works like this: Individuals around the world are given small loans ($350, $500, even $1000 us) to help begin or improve a business. The money comes in the form of a small loan of as little as $25 US from many people in many countries. The individual then improves their situation and consequently pays back the loans.
Kiva is the first one of these programs I came across a few years ...