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Team: American Gear Company / Humanity Snowboards
9 members
$2,025 in loans
Southern Utah
Team since May 2009
Change a Life with a Loan
Join Monson Family's team on Kiva
Every day, Kiva connects thousands of people to borrowers and partner institutions around the world, working together to create opportunity and alleviate poverty. It only takes $25 to get started.
- Daisy is a married woman with five children. She is a very hardworking entrepreneur. She is 57 years old and has a child in school.
She has a food vending busine...Read their story >
- Bebelyn is 21 years old with two children.
She works hard to provide for her family. She runs a buy and sell rice in the Philippines and requested a PHP 13000 lo...Read their story >
- For many years, Xavier has worked repairing household appliances. With his savings he started a store that he has kept in recent years.
Xavier is familiar with t...Read their story >
- Patrick is a 55-year-old maize farmer in Mikinduri, Kenya. In addition to farming his core crop, he currently has 1 cow on his land. Patrick historically struggles to acce...Read their story >
- Richard is thankful to Kiva and its lenders for the previous loan that enabled him to buy more rice to sell. He was able to meet the demands of his customers and increase ...Read their story >
Why Kiva?
Kiva lenders, like Monson Family, combat poverty daily by making small loans to borrowers around the world. We believe in fair access to affordable capital for people to improve their own lives.
Often only a relatively small amount of money stands in the way of Kiva borrowers and their dreams. Whether it’s a Kenyan farmer who needs $500 in order to double her grain production, or a young Bolivian woman who lacks the $1,500 tuition for nursing school, Kiva lenders provide a hand up to these and countless other borrowers.
Join us and make a loan today.
Why Do People Kiva?
We each took time to explain why we use Kiva, but this is just a fraction of Kiva's many active users around the world.
How Does Kiva Work?
- Choose a borrower
Browse hundreds of borrower profiles and find a story that connects with you. - Make a loan
Click ‘Lend’ to send money via our Field Partners, who vet, distribute and administer each loan. - Get repaid
Receive updates as the borrowers you support succeed and repay their loans. - Repeat!
When borrowers repay, that money is yours to keep, donate to Kiva or lend again to empower someone new!
About Microfinance
Safe, affordable capital to those in need helps people create a better life for themselves
The Story of a Kiva Loan
Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.
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We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.
