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    Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes
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    Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times, sang its praises. "I lent $25 each to the owner of a TV repair shop in Afghanistan, a baker in Afghanistan, and a single mother running a clothing shop in the Dominican Republic" Mr. Kristof wrote in a 2007 column. Full Article at The New York Times
    I lent $25 each to the owner of a TV repair shop in Afghanistan, a baker in Afghanistan, and a single mother running a clothing shop in the Dominican Republic
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
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Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes
  1. There’s a whole new generation of socially connected nonprofits that use the Internet to make the illusion of person-to-person contact much more believable
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  2. and create a simple way for her to participate in microfinance, which is what we do
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  3. Kiva connects people through lending to alleviate poverty.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  4. Little did I realize what that click would unleash
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  5. Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  6. If anything, it has drawn more people into the nuance and beauty of this model of microfinance ... It’s highly imperfect, but it’s like a 3 1/2-year-old child: it has a lot of potential.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  7. If Kiva’s users want to be connected to an individual borrower, Kiva doesn’t do that, and so the big question is, do Kiva’s users want to be connected to a microfinance institution in which case, why do they need Kiva?
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  8. The problem is that they are no more connecting donors to people than the child sponsorship organizations of the past did.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago
  9. That’s the future of Kiva ... when through that disintermediation process you can bring down the costs of these transactions and put them directly in the hands of people.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 4 weeks ago

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