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Impact This Week
- 4,242 new lenders joined.
- 2,938 entrepreneurs funded.
- 1,063 gift certificates purchased.
- 15,780 lenders made a loan.
- $1,022,275.00 lent.
- 97.88% repayment rate to date.
- 1 loan every 18 seconds.
A loan was made on Kiva.org every
37 seconds
(on average) throughout Q1 2008.
The average time it takes for a Kiva Loan to be funded is
53.11 hours
Kiva Loan descriptions are translated by over
250 volunteers
located across the globe, keeping new loans feeding to the website 24 hours a day.
Kiva Lenders who also happen to be celebrities include
Camryn Manheim
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and | Greta Van Susteren.
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Kiva Entrepreneur
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was visited |
Kiva Lender
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Kiva is being utilized as a teaching tool by classrooms across the country, including:
a business class in New York City,
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Baker Middle School in Oregon,
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and 9th, 10th and 11th grade students at San Roque H.S. in CA...
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...who are part of our volunteer translation team, translating loan descriptions from Spanish to English!
Kiva is used as a way for businesses to support other businesses, such as Projectline
in Seattle, who give Kiva Gift Certificates to clients to thank them for their patronage.
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