Kiva is an amazing program and one that 1-Focus International has chosen to support. At t his time of year when many of us give thanks, I want to recruit you to our new lending team, Sustaining Change, on Kiva. This non-profit website allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world. You choose who to lend to – whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq – and as they repay the loan, you get your money back.

When you join our lending team, we can work together to alleviate poverty. Once you’re a part of the team, you can choose to have a future loan on Kiva “count” towards our team’s impact. The loan is still yours, and repayments still come to you – but you can also choose to have the loan show up in our team’s collective portfolio, so our team’s overall impact will grow!

Check out the Sustaining Change lending team, and learn more about lending teams on Kiva in general, by clicking here.