Author: mole333

A couple of days ago I posted a diary about new businesses being featured on the Kiva microlending...

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On Daily Kos and My Left Wing there is a wonderful diary that I don’t see here. There is a company called Kiva that does microloans to small businesses in Uganda. You can loan directly to a particular individual through Kiva and since they pool people’s money, you can loan as little as $25 at a time. On dKos people have been going crazy and have been filling up the loans needed to the point that the person who runs the site can barely keep up. More below.