Through Kiva, We're Coloring the World
Hey, check the new map to the right. There you'll see all the countries the Pondering Pig Social Investment Group is already impacting, $25 bucks and up at a time through Kiva.org. Drag on the map to get more detail.
Pig SIG investors are savvy investors. Using Kiva.org, we've scoured the world for opportunities in Kenyan cows, Bulgarian bakeries, and Ecuadorian shoe stores. We've found the wide awake, geddupandgo entrepreneurs who just need the infusion of a few bucks to get out of street peddling and into their own kiosk. Hey, the skies the limit when your business has credit.
And poverty sucks.
Join the Savvy Seven and let me know who you're investing in so I can add you to the PigSIG stats.
Seven PigSIG Kiva investors today, up from two on Tuesday:
Belladonna
Hannah
Greg
Leo
Kirstie
Patrushka
PonderPig
I've added links to all seven lender portfolios in my index. Just click on Pondering Pig Social Investment Group.
Pig SIG investors are savvy investors. Using Kiva.org, we've scoured the world for opportunities in Kenyan cows, Bulgarian bakeries, and Ecuadorian shoe stores. We've found the wide awake, geddupandgo entrepreneurs who just need the infusion of a few bucks to get out of street peddling and into their own kiosk. Hey, the skies the limit when your business has credit.
And poverty sucks.
Join the Savvy Seven and let me know who you're investing in so I can add you to the PigSIG stats.
Seven PigSIG Kiva investors today, up from two on Tuesday:
Belladonna
Hannah
Greg
Leo
Kirstie
Patrushka
PonderPig
I've added links to all seven lender portfolios in my index. Just click on Pondering Pig Social Investment Group.
Labels: Kiva Investment Group, Simple Justice, Won't Fit In Box
posted by Christopher Newton at 8:17 AM
2 Comments:
There are several You-Tube videos on microfinance HERE that some may find interesting.
I fell into old thinking for a scant moment. I thought what if PIGsig focused on one area of investment and financed a total project or 2? But then I realized that's stupid as the majority of the people we've financed have gotten full financing already without a monopoly effort.
Not that the old way would be bad, it just seems to me that the most amount of good is always done on human terms rather than corporate terms. If we were in it for returns, the obverse would be true, but we're not.
The realization to me was that the people we finance are in this first for survival and second for success, whereas I was thinking about success first. I've had little experience with the scrape for basic survival and that little bit was not the condition of my life for more than a couple years. How soon we forget what it's like to really feel hungry.
Most of us have never really known that feeling and hopefully, with the efforts of KIVA and the like, more people will get to not feel the pains of real hunger any longer.
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