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The Savings behind the Interest

  • November 13th, 2009
  • Posted in Asia Pacific . Business . World
  • By evacwu

Re-posted from the Kiva Fellows Blog. Having followed the recent debate over Kiva’s transparency and the P2P model, the main critique that stuck with me was that there should be more transparency on Kiva’s partner MFIs. This resonated with me because I believe that Kiva has, on the whole, picked out partner MFIs that do [ READ MORE ]

Kiva Fellow, Pre-Trip Thoughts

  • September 2nd, 2009
  • Posted in World
  • By evacwu

As most close friends and family know by now, I’m excited to be traveling to Cagayan de Oro, Philippines as a Kiva Fellow! If you haven’t heard of Kiva.org, I would highly encourage you to check out their website, as the concept behind their organization is really cool. Kiva is basically a microfinance organization that [ READ MORE ]

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