Kiva.org is NOT the Human Fund
Kiva.org is a brilliant initiative and it has been met with a great deal of enthusiasm and a lot of loan money.
We have invested as much as we really should into Kiva and we have been spreading the word about it since the first moment that we knew about it. I don’t think a short description can really do justice to what Kiva is accomplishing so I will refer you to the NYT article.
Something interesting has been happening in the months since we became Kiva boosters. People that we told about it are now giving our kids gift certificates. This is good, except it makes us sad inside when the kids don’t quite get it. Maybe a lightbulb might come on for them when a loan recipient starts paying back the loan.
