{"id":587,"date":"2007-08-23T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T23:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/kivaorg-a-site-worth-checking-out\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T23:34:32","slug":"kivaorg-a-site-worth-checking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/kivaorg-a-site-worth-checking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiva.org: A site worth checking out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiva.org is a website that connects you to small businesses in the developing world and lets you give them loans for a short period of time. This loan can be as small as $25 and over a period of time (usually 6-12 months) your loan is repaid.<\/p>\n<p>Usually giving loans requires a lot of money and contributing to charity is an iffy proposition, you don&#8217;t know how much of that money is actually being spent on the cause and how much is being pocketed. But this looks like a good compromise. For a small amount of money you are helping someone gain financial independence. <\/p>\n<p>Check it out. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/app.php?page=about\">Kiva.org &#8211; Loans that change lives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From their site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can &#8220;sponsor a business&#8221; and help the world&#8217;s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you&#8217;ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiva.org is a website that connects you to small businesses in the developing world and lets you give them loans for a short period of time. This loan can be as small as $25 and over a period of time (usually 6-12 months) your loan is repaid. Usually giving loans requires a lot of money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}