People everywhere need resources to do things for others, which is the only reason any of us should 'get paid'. Unfortunately many very wealthy people accumulate vast resources not doing much or anything for others. Until this changes so that everyone has a fair share of our world's natural, technological, and human resources, the economy and everything that depends on it is going to be pretty rotten. Kiva provides a smart way to do something, directly and immediately, about unequal resources stunting human and societal development.
About me:
I make web sites (you are looking at a web site now) with people, other developers and designers, in the Agaric Design Collective. We like to use the open source free software content management framework Drupal.