Kiva Lender: Barbara
| Location: | Sebastopol, CA United States |
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| Occupation: | teacher |
| I loan because: | The world has become a very small place. We are all connected and linked. We all bleed the same color. We all share the same DNA. In a basic sense, we all want the same things in our lives, too. We all want love, enough to eat, a safe warm place to sleep, clean water, a better life for our kids and a few dreams that--with hard work--we might see come true. Knowing that so many people around the world struggle to attain some of the basics with which my life has been amply blessed (comparatively speaking), how can I not help? Why would I not? "There but for fortune, go you or go I." -- Phil Ochs ~~ Note to the skeptics: I made my first loan via Kiva in August 2007. As of today (Thursday, 8 May 2008) I've made 14 second generation loans. My latest is to a dedicated Nicaraguan educator who will use the funds to improve her house so as to "give her five year old daughter and her mother a dignified and presentable dwelling" as well as to continue paying for the degree in computers she is working toward. (Irma Cecilia Urbina Corea: www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=46554 What this "second generation loan" thing means is that (so far) 14 people have completely repaid loans that I participated in their acquiring. It feels glorious to reinvest those repaid funds into other people's needs and dreams. Kiva works. ~~ |
| About me: | I teach science to teenagers who are at-risk for a lot of bad stuff, the least of which might be never graduating from high school. |
| Member Since: | Aug 25, 2007 |
Barbara's Loans
Barbara's Invites
6 accepted invitations
Connor
Sebastopol, CA, United States
Joseph
Napa, California
United States
Barbara
Sebastopol, CA
United States
Portfolio Distribution
| Gender | |
| Male | 14.1% |
| Female | 85.9% |
| Country | |
| Afghanistan | 0.6% |
| Bosnia And Herzegovina | 0.6% |
| Cote D'Ivoire | 0.6% |
| El Salvador | 0.6% |
| Haiti | 0.6% |
| Honduras | 0.6% |
| Iraq | 0.6% |
| Mozambique | 0.6% |
| Benin | 1.3% |
| Bulgaria | 1.3% |
| Kenya | 1.3% |
| Togo | 1.3% |
| Ukraine | 1.3% |
| Indonesia | 1.9% |
| Nepal | 1.9% |
| Samoa | 1.9% |
| Senegal | 1.9% |
| Dominican Republic | 2.6% |
| Ecuador | 2.6% |
| Lebanon | 2.6% |
| Paraguay | 2.6% |
| Sierra Leone | 2.6% |
| Viet Nam | 2.6% |
| Ghana | 3.2% |
| Guatemala | 3.2% |
| Pakistan | 3.2% |
| Tajikistan | 3.2% |
| Uganda | 3.2% |
| Azerbaijan | 3.8% |
| Bolivia | 3.8% |
| Nigeria | 3.8% |
| Tanzania | 3.8% |
| Cambodia | 5.1% |
| Nicaragua | 6.4% |
| Peru | 10.9% |
| Mexico | 11.5% |
| Sector | |
| Construction | 0.6% |
| Manufacturing | 0.6% |
| Transportation | 1.3% |
| Wholesale | 1.3% |
| Education | 3.2% |
| Agriculture | 5.7% |
| Arts | 7.0% |
| Services | 8.9% |
| Clothing | 10.1% |
| Health | 12.7% |
| Food | 22.2% |
| Retail | 26.6% |
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