Small Step Foundation is a non-profit public benefit volunteer corporation that I support.Their focus is promoting education and support rehabilitation of special need children by directly funding existing Not for profit organizations in India. This is from SSF website: “If Not Us, Then Who? If Not Now, Then When?” These were the guiding priniciples of [...]
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As I have posted earlier, I been lending through Kiva.org for about 2.5 years now. Recently, I reached a landmark of 50 loans. These are some of the stats. There are more stats and info if you are interested @ http://www.kiva.org/lender/vidur3752 The interesting things to me are: I have no defaults till date and I [...]
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Last year, I had posted about SSF walk and it is that time of the year again. A small SSF intro: It is a Bay Area based Non-Profit working to fund education projects in India. To raise funds, they are oragnizing a 5k/10k walk and, as always, the event is targeted towards a whole family [...]
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I have posted about Small Steps Foundation in the past. It is a Bay Area based Non-Profit working to fund education projects in India. To raise funds, they are oragnizing a 5k/10k walk and, as always, the event is targeted towards a whole family experience. These are the details of the SSF 2009 Walk. If [...]
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It has almost been a year since I started lending at Kiva.org and it would be fair to say I can come a long way. The most interesting change that Kiva folks made during this time is that instead of crediting the loan repayments to lender’s account at the end of loan term, they do [...]
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Nelida Adriana Diaz Pretel has a small bakery in Trujillo – La Libertad, Peru where she bakes cakes from local grocery stores and for birthdays & parties. She has requested a loan of $175 for 4 months to buy more ingredients for her cakes. 6 kiva lenders contributed to here loan. Bukaye B North a [...]
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GIE Casa Mas Group has raised a loan of $1,675 to start a restaurant on the beach in Carabane, Senegal. Their village is in the tourism zone and transit point for Spanish tourists. You can read more about the loan @ Kiva.org. The loan will be returned in 12 months and 60 Kiva member contributed [...]
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If you do, I would recommend Emin Muradov. He drives a self-owned taxi in Beylagan, Azerbaijan. He supports his wife and 2 kids with this income. Emin had requested for a loan of $1,200 to buy spare parts for the taxi. He intends to pay back in 12 months and 30 Kiva members has contributed [...]
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While I was looking for projects to lend to, I realized that there where no loan requests from India. I dug a little and Kiva doesn’t even have a ‘Field Partner’ there. The second most populous country, with a significant percentage of population below the poverty line, missing was bit of a surprise to me. [...]
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