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Team: The Laughing Llama
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$10,075 in loans
Everywhere
Team since Mar 2017
Change a Life with a Loan
Join Dolf Bekx'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.
- Maria Theresa is 61 years old and married with six children. Maria Theresa works very hard to provide for them.
She sells charcoal in the Philippines and request...Read their story >
- Mr. Abilio is separated and has two young children who attend primary school. He is Director of Operations at one of the banks in the city of Maputo.
This is t...Read their story >
- Salome is a happy and hardworking Kenyan woman who is blessed with a baby boy. She runs a general store business and also engages in farming so that she can provide for he...Read their story >
- Janet is a 43-year-old mother of one child living in Nyamira, a town whose surroundings have vast agricultural potential with numerous small farms and also vast agricultura...Read their story >
- This Banc Villageois, set up in May 2016, brings together these five brave women who live in the same village. They are united by kinship, by neighborhood and by friendship...Read their story >
Why Kiva?
Kiva lenders, like Dolf Bekx, 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.
