Pedro,

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to PEDRO by EDAPROSPO in Peru. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the 3 months of this loan, EDAPROSPO will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

During a routine audit of Field Partner EDAPROSPO, Kiva discovered a number of discrepancies between the information posted to the Kiva website and what actually occurred on the ground. Specifically, many loans uploaded to the website before December 2008 contain inaccurate loan amounts, terms and/or loan uses.

This is in violation of Kiva policy, and as such, as soon as we were alerted to a possible violation we placed EDAPROSPO on "pause." After placing them on pause, Kiva proceeded to execute a complete verification of every loan EDAPROSPO posted to the Kiva website; in total we examined 757 loans.

As a result of our audit, we have discovered that 52% of the loans posted to the Kiva website by field partner EDAPROSPO contain data inaccuracies. 98% of these inaccuracies pertain to loans posted to the Kiva website before December 2008, when EDAPROSPO was under a different management team. After significant management turnover at the end of 2008, almost all loans on the Kiva website contain complete and accurate information and these loans comprise only 2% of the total discovered inaccuracies.

You are receiving this email as we wanted to alert you that, after our verification efforts, Kiva cannot confirm that the specific loan you funded was actually disbursed. We can, however, confirm that the person you lent to is an EDAPROSPO borrower. Because EDAPROSPO has decided to guarantee all loans made on Kiva, you have continued to receive repayments on schedule.

Because the new management team has proven that they are committed to providing accurate and transparent information to the Kiva website, and because they have repaid almost all of the inaccurate loans on-time, Kiva has decided to re-open the Kiva-EDAPROSPO relationship. During this new "pilot" phase on Kiva, we will be working closely with the new EDAPROSPO team, including their internal and external auditors, to continually verify new EDAPROSPO loans posted to Kiva, and if we are alerted to any new inaccuracies we will pause their relationship with Kiva and follow-up accordingly.

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This is an update on your recently completed loan to Pedro at EDAPROSPO in Lima, Peru.

I had the opportunity to speak with Pedro at his most recent Community Bank meeting. He is a long time member of Las Begonias community bank. As a number of the members have loans funded through Kiva, they asked if I could take a picture of them all together because that’s how they work and support each other, together. Pedro is the young guy in the second row on the left.

Pedro used his loan to help fund his studies in civil engineering and to start a small business to supplement his income. He has one year to go in his studies and his business seems to going pretty well. When Pedro finishes his degree, he would like to use it to get a job working on public infrastructure projects and in his spare time would like to work with youth in his neighbourhood of Vitarte in eastern Lima.

He would like to thank all the Kiva Lenders a lot and hopes that you keep providing support to people who want to improve their lives.