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Team: The Road
95 members
$110,075 in loans
From all over!
Team since Nov 2008
Change a Life with a Loan
Join Peter'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.
- Melinda is 49 and married with one child. Melinda works very hard to provide for them.
She runs a general store in the Philippines and requested a PHP 12,000 loa...Read their story >
- Melany is a young single mother. She has been exceptionally entrepreneurial and pro-active from a very young age, working to support herself. She now also has a little one ...Read their story >
- This is Miriam. She is a woman who is immensely grateful to the Banco Visionfund organisation for the support it has provided to her to enable her to continue her business ...Read their story >
- Eunice is a 44-year-old vigilant mother of four school going children. She lives in Embu, a town surrounded by prime agricultural lands which favor large-scale grain farmin...Read their story >
- Christine is a 41-year-old mother living in Kisumu, a town where the main economic activities include agricultural processing. She is a woman who believes that her success ...Read their story >
Why Kiva?
Kiva lenders, like Peter, 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.
