The Anonymous Widower

My Progress With Kiva

I wrote about Kiva, the on-line micro-finance site in this post.

I invested a few hundred dollars to see how the site works.

I’ve now started getting repayments from the loans.  This is not surprising in my view, as I used to know someone who organised micro-finance in Malawi and he said repayments were usually made.

So now all the money I’ve had returned has been lent out to others. So my original charity donation has been lent to two different people.

A nice feature of Kiva, is that you can search for people with whom you might have something in common.

I often search for widows, as I know a bit about the loneliness of the predicament. Interestingly, Kiva generally lists both sexes as widows and doesn’t seem to use widower. I think that is good.

One thing about Kiva is that if I recruit a new lender, I get a $25 bonus to lend. This is how they spread the word, but the positive result is more money is lent to the undeveloped world.

November 18, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Finance, World | Kiva, Widowhood