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Team: Friends of Bob Harris
2509 members
$10,479,305 in loans
All over
Team since Jun 2009
Change a Life with a Loan
Join Bob Harris'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.
- Gulraftor was born in 1987 and lives in Tursunzade, Tajikistan. She is married, and husband is a specialist in construction. She is a mother of five children. She has been ...Read their story >
- Melinde is a married woman with five children. She is a very hardworking entrepreneur. Melinde is 37 years old and has two children who are in school.
Melinde ha...Read their story >
- Winny is 35 years old. She is married with four children. She has had dairy farming business for two years supplying milk and earning KES 20,000.
She has applie...Read their story >
- Candelaria is a married woman with two children. She is a very hardworking entrepreneur. Candelaria is 60 years old.
Candelaria has a frozen food buy-and-sell bu...Read their story >
- Victoria is 48 years old. She is married and has four children. All of her children are currently attending school while living at home. Her main source of income is her bu...Read their story >
Why Kiva?
Kiva lenders, like Bob Harris, 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.
About
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.
