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Have you heard about Kiva?


Kiva is a non-profit organization that facilitates micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

The idea is to provide qualified people with money they need to start a business.  This way, they can make a living, create jobs, and improve lives through a sustainable mean.  When the loan money has been repaid, you can re-lend it to someone else, again and again.  Isn’t this neat?

Give a man a fish, you have fed him for today.  Lend them money to start their own businesses, and you have fed them for a lifetime.


inFlow has been joining the cause for some time now.  Check out our Kiva profile.

When are you going to start?

People often ask me how the recession is affecting us.  In my most sagely voice, I respond, “I don’t know”.

We’re continually improving our product, our marketing, and the way we do business.  As a result, we’re continuing to do better, despite the trends in the overall economy.  We might come up with a new way of promoting our product that helps increase sales 50%, or improve the product in such a way that doubles our revenue.  If we remove some roadblock that’s turning away one quarter of your potential customers, we increase sales by 33%.  Perhaps in a more prosperous general economy we’d see our numbers increasing by an extra 10-20%, but that’s just gravy - the things we can do have a much greater impact.

Whether you’re trying to grow your business, cope with extra work for the same money, or find a job; don’t let the economy or the news make you feel helpless.  It may be more of an uphill battle, but it’s still your battle.