Reflection – how can we help?
Financial inclusivity
More than 1.7 billion people do not have bank accounts and access to capital. That’s why I support KIVA in its mission to provide access to disadvantaged communities to help them with their economic, social and personal development.
Through microcredit, I contribute to a more financially inclusive world, where as many people as possible have the opportunity to develop their potential.
Micro credits
Through KIVA, I make a percentage of my net sales available each month through crowdfunding and micro-credits to benefit entrepreneurs and families living marginalized lives.
In this way, I help students pay their tuition. And women to start sustainable businesses. And farmers to invest in technology and food forests. And sometimes marginalized families with needed emergency care.
Part of solution
For each KIVA borrower, I make $25 to a maximum of $100 available, being a part of the solution and trying to make a real difference in someone’s life.
100% of every dollar I lend in partnership with KIVA goes to funding and people who needed it most. When the money is repaid in due course, I immediately lend it back to other KIVA borrowers.
Impact in numbers
Doing Good, resulting in Doing Well
(x $1.000)
The amount I have lent since 2013
(x 1)
(x 1)
Do what is right, not what is easy
Most recently provided microloans
What others think of it
In the media
“Not only do you empower people living in poverty to make meaningful choices for basic human rights, you also help children understand their responsibility to give something back to the global community and appreciate the quality of life they enjoy. “
“… The Kiva concept will work in America. That brings me to another point. I don’t think we should have any preconceptions about who entrepreneurs are. ”
– Bill Clinton
“Neither Kiva nor the Kiva lenders make money from the loans they make. This allows Kiva to work with groups based on social motives rather than profit motives.”
– Premal Shah, Kiva President