The Gritty Virtual Assistant Blog » Micro-Lending http://www.grittyva.com Straight-Shooting Business Savvy for Administrative Support Consultants Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:14:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Join the VACOC Kiva Team & Help Us Alleviate Poverty! http://www.grittyva.com/2008/10/23/join-the-vacoc-kiva-team-help-us-alleviate-poverty/ http://www.grittyva.com/2008/10/23/join-the-vacoc-kiva-team-help-us-alleviate-poverty/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:33:47 +0000 Danielle Keister http://www.grittyva.com/2008/10/join-the-vacoc-kiva-team-help-us-alleviate-poverty/ The VACOC now has its own micro-lending team on Kiva and YOU are invited to join us in the fight against poverty. It's free to join and you can make a loan at any time to help a fellow entrepreneur out anywhere in the world. It's good karma and you are repaid 100% in full when the load is paid off.

Here's how it works:

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique enterpreneurs in the developing world.

You can lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world (hey, $25 is a WHOLE LOTTA MONEY in those areas). You choose who to lend to–whether that's a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq–and as they repay the loan, you get your money back.

If you join the VACOC lending team of Virtual Assistants, you'll be joining forces with us to work together to alliviate poverty. Once you're a part of the team, you can choose to have a future loan on Kiva "count" towards our team's impact. The loan is still yours, and repayments still come to you, but you can also choose to have the loan show up in our team's collective portfolio, so our team's overall impact will grow!

I hope you'll join!

http://www.kiva.org/community/viewTeam?team_id=2197

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