{"id":379,"date":"2014-01-22T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:27:06","slug":"kiva-org-one-of-my-favorite-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Kiva.Org, One of my favorite charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my <a title=\"101 in 1001\" href=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">101 in 1001<\/a> items is to add money to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/invitedby\/beccaandjared7963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiva account<\/a> and lend it. I first learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/invitedby\/beccaandjared7963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiva<\/a>\u00a0when my stepsister gifted me and Jared a $50 donation in our name for our wedding in September 2012. It was such a unique gift and so nice to have a chance to do something for others when so much of our energy had been focused on ourselves! Kiva is a nonprofit that supports microfinancing organizations that make small loans around the world. I remember reading that small loans, particularly to women to start businesses, are one of the most effective ways to alleviate poverty in impoverished communities.<\/p>\n<p>One of the cool things about Kiva is that it really is a loan. So once your lendee pays back the money, you can relend it to other borrowers! I&#8217;ve gotten to relend parts of the original $50 a few times, and I got an email saying I had $31 and some change to relend available. So today, I added $20 to my account so I could make two loans (they are made in increments of $25) and a small donation to Kiva&#8217;s operating expenses. I supported two young moms with businesses, one to a woman in Kyrgyzstan with three preschoolers who works as a teacher and owns a cattle business, and another to a woman in Kenya who owns a shop.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to check it out, use my link and I can earn a bonus to lend!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/invitedby\/beccaandjared7963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/invitedby\/beccaandjared7963<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my 101 in 1001 items is to add money to my Kiva account and lend it. I first learned about Kiva\u00a0when my stepsister gifted me and Jared a $50 donation in our name for our wedding in September &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/?p=379\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jerandbecca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}