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Kiva Lender Elizabeth
- Location:
- Carmel, IN, United States
- Occupation:
- Stay-at-home Mom
- I loan because:
- "Where you live should not decide whether you live or whether you die." -- Bono, "Crumbs From Your Table." The happenstance of birthplace has made me one of the wealthiest 1% of people in the world: I'm a middle-class Mid-Western stay-at-home-mom. Few of my peers would recognise themselves as such -- the average American suburbanite might be aware that they among the top 50% in the US, but when they think of "wealth" they think of Bill Gates and Donald Trump. Compared to the top 0.001%, we in the top 1% may have a modest lifestyle -- but compared the other 99% of humanity we are rich beyond their wildest dreams. Neither my wealth, nor another's poverty, has come to us in the vacuum of our own unaided acts. Where we are born is the single greatest factor in deciding our lot in life. I've been lucky, but I don't think I have ever shown the strength, determination and ingenuity of the entrepreneurs requesting loans through Kiva. I admire and respect these men and women -- and the least I can do as a moral person is to share with them some of the wealth that chance has given me. "We are born to be killers, of plants if nothing else. And we are killed. It's a bloody business, living off others so that eventually they will live off you. Still, here and there in the food web one finds spaces where there's room for something more than just killing and being killed. "Imagine the island of blue in the middle of a tropical storm, its eye of peace. "You must admit that the hurricane is there. To do otherwise is self-deception, which in nature is fatal, or worse, hypocritical. Even honest, decent, generous folk must fight to survive when the driving winds blow. "And yet, such folk will also do whatever they can, whenever they can, to expand the blue. To increase that gentle, centered realm where patience prevails and no law is made by tooth or claw. "You are never entirely helpless, nor ever entirely in it for yourself. You can always do something to expand the blue." -- David Brin, "Earth."
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- http://www.aluluei.com
- Member Since:
- Mar 18, 2007
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Elizabeth's Loans
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General StorePaying back -
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Personal Housin...Paying back -
Shoe SalesPaying back -
DairyPaying back -
FarmingPaying back -
LivestockPaying back -
Beauty SalonPaying back -
Cloth & Dressma...Paying back -
Education providerPaying back -
FarmingPaying back -
SewingPaying back -
SewingPaid back100% repaid -
Clothing SalesPaid back100% repaid -
Clothing SalesPaid back100% repaid -
Charcoal SalesPaid back100% repaid -
Clothing SalesPaying back -
Personal Housin...Paid back100% repaid -
RestaurantPaid back100% repaid -
Personal Housin...Paying back
Elizabeth's Teams
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Team Obama
Common Interest66,406 loans -
Atheists,…
Common Interest380,989 loans
Elizabeth's Invites
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Portfolio Distribution
- By Gender
- By Country
- By Sector
- By Partner
Gender
| Gender | % |
|---|---|
| Female | 95.06% |
| Male | 4.94% |
Country
| Country | % |
|---|---|
| Tajikistan | 7.41% |
| Philippines | 6.79% |
| Kenya | 6.79% |
| Nigeria | 6.17% |
| Peru | 6.17% |
| Ghana | 5.56% |
| Pakistan | 4.94% |
| Ecuador | 4.94% |
| Togo | 4.94% |
| Cambodia | 4.94% |
| Samoa | 4.32% |
| Uganda | 3.70% |
| Lebanon | 3.09% |
| El Salvador | 2.47% |
| Nicaragua | 2.47% |
| Rwanda | 1.85% |
| Bolivia | 1.85% |
| Palestine | 1.85% |
| Ukraine | 1.85% |
| South Sudan | 1.85% |
| Azerbaijan | 1.23% |
| Dominican Republic | 1.23% |
| India | 1.23% |
| Iraq | 1.23% |
| Bulgaria | 1.23% |
| Tanzania | 1.23% |
| Jordan | 1.23% |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1.23% |
| Sierra Leone | 0.62% |
| United States | 0.62% |
| Mali | 0.62% |
| Israel | 0.62% |
| Honduras | 0.62% |
| Liberia | 0.62% |
| Armenia | 0.62% |
| Mongolia | 0.62% |
| Mexico | 0.62% |
| Senegal | 0.62% |
Sector
| Sector | % |
|---|---|
| Food | 27.78% |
| Retail | 21.60% |
| Agriculture | 20.37% |
| Clothing | 11.11% |
| Services | 7.41% |
| Transportation | 3.09% |
| Housing | 3.09% |
| Arts | 1.85% |
| Education | 1.85% |
| Construction | 1.23% |
| Health | 0.62% |
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