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by Bob Craft
Starting to be able to think again after an illness, I took a trip around the internet to educate myself about "microfinance," those small loans to the poor that seem like such a great idea. The concept keeps coming up as we in the Green Group think how to help local folks finance, for example, aquaponics "fish farms" to feed and support their families.
I started with Jessica Jackley's Ted Talk on "Poverty, Money—and Love." Watch this. You will be moved and inspired by this smart young woman. Then, as I did, you might click to Jessica's Kiva.org—it links microlenders and borrowers in such a compelling way that you may find it hard not to send $25 or more to the deserving folks pictured there. All in all, it seems like a very good thing.
I always have to peek behind the curtain though, and there are a couple of things in the dusty corners of Kiva that you might want to take a look at.
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