Kiva or how to finally do something about poverty

October 17, 2008 – 7:22 pm

Kiva.org allows you to lend money to poor people around the world. A very smart and easy way to do something to help fight poverty in the world.
Microcredit is a good way to empower people, families, to set up their own business with rippling effects in their entourage.

I have just lent 25 $ to a family of 6 in Kampong Cham, Cambodia who lives on 15$ a day (good days that is) selling fruits. The mother needs to buy a motorbike in order to sell fruits at the local market and for that she must raise 700$ of which 525$ are still needed.

Another thing you can do to fight poverty is to grab a copy of Naomi Klein’s latest book, the Shock Doctrine. An incredible eye opener on how the world has been forced into poverty by the ideology of the Chicago School of economics implemented by the IMF.