Comments on: Kiva humanizes microlending to third-world entrepreneurs

Nonprofit start-up of former PayPal executive helps people lend their pocket change to cash-strapped businesses in developing countries over the Internet.

[francispotter]

Nice

Microfinance is a powerful concept with the potential to change many people's lives for the better. Thanks for covering this.

[Ramon366]

Microlending

Thanks. We can make a difference by eliminating bureaucracy and
lending institutions that drive borrowers in to a hole.

[EdChi]

Thanks for blogging our special speaker series

Xerox PARC is now known as simply PARC. See our blog post about the talk at:

http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2008/02/kivaorg-to-speak-at-parcs-web20-speaker_06.html

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Message to Bill gates

The money to pay for all of these projects barley is enough to scretch the sides from one weeks earnings.
Now wait a second i'm not getting at you their my Billionare i'd like to make another vaild point.
The effort Required by people to pay in and help these Business ventures is worth far more.

In other words Ethically somtimes Mr Gates its not benefical for you or other rich people to coff up the full sum or develop and run the full effort.

As your moving more into your Philatrophy work their i just thought i'd make that point to you.

[NowComeOn]

What the heck are you talking about.

What you said I can't make sense. Words of yours were Yoda worse than.

[jsmith2007.lol]

What Have You Been Smoking

Dude, What Have You Been Smoking?

[mfischer2]

I have made 5 Kiva loans

Kiva is a great site with compelling stories from the borrowers. I have five $25 loans through Kiva, one is paid-off and was rolled into another loan. One of my loans should be paid off this month and I hope to roll it into another one.

[lloyd42]

microlending

microlending is an excellent way of helping small businesses
develop in third-world economies. But the truth of all third
world small businesses revolve around the concept of the
"compassionate consumer" to support the small business and
thereby the economy.
this concept has been developed by Janice Ashby founder of the
non-profit organization, Eco-Africa.

http://ecoafrica-usa.net