Tag: Microlending
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Sewing Her Way Out of Poverty
New York Times: Sewing Her Way Out of Poverty I came to Kenya partly to help make a PBS documentary about empowering women as a way to lift families and communities — men included — out of poverty. And I promptly met a prostitute-turned-businesswoman who epitomizes that theme. … … In Jamii Bora, Jane was…
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Microlenders jump-start entrepreneurs
Kansan.com: Microlenders jump-start entrepreneurs (You have no idea how objectionable it is for me to post a story from a University of Kansas newspaper, but this should symbolize to you my deep devotion to Kiva. 🙂 ) Nonprofit group Kiva lets volunteers lend money to small business owners in developing countries. After Clinton and the…
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Loans to Change Lives
MSNBC: Loans to Change Lives This morning, correspondent John Larson profiled the Web site Kiva.org, which allows everyday people to make small loans ("microloans") to entrepreneurs in developing countries. WATCH VIDEO I was first compelled to visit Kiva last weekend, while reading President Clinton's new book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World…
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Kiva Meets President Clinton and Oprah – Airs Tuesday, Sept. 4
Kiva Chronicles: Chicago For the past 10 months, we have been operating in a state of suspended reality. For the past 2 days, it has felt more like delusion. We just got back from Chicago last night. We spent yesterday morning at Harpo productions for an Oprah show taping. ………. We were in the audience. …
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Couture with a Conscience: New Fashion Line Supports Women Entrepreneurs Across the World
PR Web: Couture with a Conscience: New Fashion Line Supports Women Entrepreneurs Across the World Shabby Apple Apparel launches fall line in partnership with Unitus Salt Lake City, UT, and Redmond, WA (PRWEB) August 29, 2007 — Shabby Apple, a socially responsible women's apparel company, announces the launch of their new fall line of fashions…
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Help the world with a small loan
Orlando Sentnel: Help the world with a small loan Got money to burn and want to change the world — even a little? Then check out Kiva.org, which helps everyday people make small loans to entrepreneurs who are trying to dig out of poverty in developing nations. Kiva.org lenders can browse through profiles of those…
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Ecuador moves to cut interest rates for poor
Christian Science Monitor: Ecuador moves to cut interest rates for poor Banks and microlenders say Ecuador's leftist president may hurt most those he wants to help with 'financial justice' law. Quito, Ecuador – Ecuador's new leftist president, Rafael Correa, is wasting no time forging his own path toward the "21st-century socialism" championed by Venezuela's anti-US…