Little Loans

Jan 03, 2007 20:44

I've been interested in the idea of microcredit for several years, since reading the book The Price of a Dream The story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein. You may recognise the name of the bank, since it was in the news recently as a joint Nobel peace prize winner. The idea of microcredit is that small loans are made to people who have no ( Read more... )

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Featured Kiva lender anonymous February 11 2007, 11:24:56 UTC
Hi! I got a chuckle out of your comment on the Kiva featured lender page.
"Money is like manure it only helps if you spread it around!"
Thanks! Mary Lebus (Another kiva lender).

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Re: Featured Kiva lender knally February 11 2007, 12:13:40 UTC
I did, of course, choose the politest version of that saying :-) Which is just as well considering I popped up as one the featured lenders!

Glad it gave you a chuckle.

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