Volunteering at Kiva
Ever hear of Kiva? Kiva lets you select entrepreneurs in developing nations and contribute a loan to that person through financial partner organizations. Basically, it works like this:
Pretty cool! Creating that connection by personalizing the loans. I admit, I have few loans out – and it is very addicting to want to help others. And you can see the other people who have also contributed loans. Loan recipients submit 1-2 journals over the course of the loan, enabling the lenders to receive news of the endeavor.
In the spirit of helping, I noticed that Kiva needs volunteers to translate microloan descriptions. So I am now officially a Kiva Volunteer. Every week, on Fridays, I translate loan descriptions from Spanish to English. Pretty neat thing going on here, connecting every day people from around the world to give a helping hand to our fellow human beings!
