Team: Friends of Bob Harris
1971 members
$7,202,350 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.
- Javier is 34 years old. He is single. He pays rent. He needs a loan to buy a computer. Javier works as a consultant for a private company. Javier would like to have his own...Read their story >Funding via IMPRO
- Laina is a 28 year old mother with 4 children, she runs a small business of providing a good services to people by transportation. Laina requested for a loan to buy new whe...Read their story >Funding via South Pacific Business Development (SPBD) - Samoa
- Omar is 32 years old. He owns a cattle business, which he has been doing for four years. His business is well-organized. He works from 5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m every day.Funding via VisionFund Rwanda
- Ms Duyên is a 38-year-old widow with three children. Since the passing of her husband three years ago, she has had to work hard to foster her children and keep sending them...Read their story >Funding via Thanh Hoa Microfinance Institution
- Babra is 29 years old, married with two children, and living in Kasese, Uganda. Babra has been running a textile shop for 12 years alongside raising poultry and running a c...Read their story >Funding via HOFOKAM
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.
