Have you heard about Kiva? Kiva (www.kiva.org), a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe.
You choose who to lend to and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. It’s a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of poverty.
Right now I have 4 loans out - 1 to a guy in Nicaragua looking to build/expand his housing, a woman in Uganda who is expanding her poultry/farming business by opening her own shop, and two women (one in the Congo and one in Ghana) who are expanding their food market businesses.
Check it out!