Microloaning on Memorial Day 2006

What to do on a relaxing day off? Catch up on various paperwork and email inbox items, get my fiscal ducks in a row, listen to the new music I got when I sold old CDs at Green Apple, and enjoy the view from my picture window.

One of the fun things I finally got around to doing was making a microloan through Kiva. I'm helping George Bomboko in Banda-Kireka, Uganda, set up a groundnut business at which his brother will work to help support their family. He's still looking for an additional $300, so if you have $25 sitting gathering dust in your PayPal account, why not give George or one of the other small businesspeople on Kiva's site a hand?

Here's a neat set of photos of a recent group of folks receiving their loan funds after having their business plans approved by their peers.

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Woot! It's Tuesday midday and George only needs $50 more to launch his new business. Yay, microlenders!

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Microloaning on Memorial Day

What to do on a relaxing day off? Catch up on various paperwork and email inbox items, get my fiscal ducks in a row, listen to the new music I got when I sold old CDs at Green Apple, and enjoy the view from my picture window.

One of the fun things I finally got around to doing was making a microloan through Kiva. I'm helping George Bomboko in Banda-Kireka, Uganda, set up a groundnut business at which his brother will work to help support their family. He's still looking for an additional $300, so if you have $25 sitting gathering dust in your PayPal account, why not give George or one of the other small businesspeople on Kiva's site a hand?

Here's a neat set of photos of a recent group of folks receiving their loan funds after having their business plans approved by their peers.

*********

Woot! It's Tuesday midday and George only needs $50 more to launch his new business. Yay, microlenders!

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