What an absolutely fantastic idea!

I will defiantely be contributing and buying vouchers for xmas gifts.

Thank you for posting this thread.
I just lent money to a lady to pay for her daughter's engagement. I was the last instalment she needed, so I feel very proud 🙂
I am off to see who else I can help.

I just lent to a guy to help him make deliveries for his business 🙂

yay! I'm loving these donations and hearing the story of the person 🙂

yay! I'm loving these donations and hearing the story of the person 🙂

Nearly lost the thread before I made my loan, so am going to do it right now!

Well I'm loving hearing about who people are choosing to loan to also. After getting back from Vietnam recently but finding no Kiva loans there I chose a widow who lives in Cambodia on the Mekong river (I really enjoyed my short time on the Mekong in Vietnam). This particular lady was raising money to buy her son a horse as he needs one to pull his cart (transporting goods). This was one of the riskier loans as the repayment schedule was unknown but I am happy to have taken the risk (her first repayment is due in April).

After doing my loan the next night I noticed new loans from Vietnam and asked my son if he wanted to help. He lent his money to a mechanic in Saigon to buy more tools for his business. This could have been any number of mechanic shops we drove or walked past so I think it made it quite 'real' to him. This is the loan that a repayment has been received already.

I want to make another one, maybe after Christmas 🙂

I had a pleasant suprise tonight when I checked my Kiva profile, I found my first loan had been repaid in a lump sum. So I've just helped fund another 'entrepenuer'.

My sons Kiva loan is being repaid on schedule and is 42% repaid. 🙂

excellent

i lent mine to someone and only after the whole transaction had gone through did I realise the repayment schedule was 2 years. Oh welll :^O

Haha, the one that was paid back last night had an irregular repayment schedule I only noticed after I had processed the loan that the repayments said 'irregular'. I actually thought I may never see that loan get repaid but after the first repayment there was a schedule (18 months) but I guess I will never know why it was paid back in one lump sum yesterday.

I like to think that it helped the family more than expected.

Got the workmates on board today and between us we got together enough cash to fund two more loans. Yay 😄

And I can't remember if I've posted this link before in this thread but it simply shows how Kiva loans have grown from an initial 7 loans back in 2005 to what is happening today.