So today a colleague asked me, “How could you use Kiva in the classroom?”
I have been involved with Kiva for a couple years now, volunteering to translate budding entrepreneur loans from Spanish to English so multitudes of Kiva users can make loans. Over the last 12 months I have volunteered as a Team Leader, serving [...]
Kiva had record traffic over the holidays. As I was home for the holidays, I volunteered for several shifts. As quickly as loans were translated they were moved to the live side of things. Millions of dollars came through to the budding entrepreneurs in developing nations. Volunteering to translate is interesting – I’ve translated loans [...]
Tonight I translated 16 microloans at Kiva – whew! I think one of the funnest things about translating at Kiva is the variety of vocabulary. Tonight I translated about embroidery, radiators, grocery stores, and chickens.
It could be interesting for a world language class to adopt an entrepreneur…
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 [...]
