kiva loans

I made two loans to Kiva tonight. They only had two loans. One was to Nuth Kimny in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia for his grocery store, the other to Santa Andrea Ajpop Alvarez in Totonicapan, Guatemala for her store.

Kiva

I couldn't resist this loan to Nazira Sodikjonova in Rudaki, Tajikistan. She just looks like so much fun, I want to help her out.

I also made a donation to planned parenthood today.

Education Generation

I made a donation to Arumainayagam in Kalmunai, Sri Lanka. He has one more year of engineering school left.

Education Generation

I donated today to the education of Miss Bakhtawar in Ratwal, Pakistan. She is 13 and needs $100 for her tuition for this year. She wants to be a professional nurse.

Sesame Street.

I donated to the Sesame Street Workshop today. I like the work they do in teaching kids about tolerance and understanding. Muppets are great. BTW there is a great Muppet exhibition at the Smithsonian, I saw it last month. Its in the gallery beside the castle.

I'm going to save my Kiva credits till they get more loans. Did I mention that already?

AIDS walk

I sponsored a friend for a walk-a-thon to raise money for AIDS. Please consider sponsoring her, she is young (19) and the type of person who has a lot of energy and passion and would probably do a lot more volunteer work if encouraged, especially by strangers. Not, of course, that anyone is strange.

Travels and Kiva

I just got back from a great vacation in Atlantic Canada; Nova Scotia, P.E.I., New Brunswich, Quebec and Ontario. Beautiful country.

I made 6 Kiva loans today, I bid on all that were available. five were to people in Peru; Guadalupe, Emiliana , Nancy, Esther, and Frida, and Dinh Thi Nhuong from Viet nam.

Kiva loans

Kiva is still running out of loans because of their new partial credit refunding, but I got in on a few. I still have lots of Kiva credit to use.

Lorenzo Och Tambriz -
Modupe Agboola -

Oluwashehun Oguniyi -

Bello Fausat -
Zilghian Julissa Mora Morlaes -
Fatou Diouf -
Fatou Ndiaye -
Kamil Osmanov -
Lilliam Isabel Gadea Rodas -
Héctor José Gámez Cardenal -
Ahmad Bahronov -
Fatimon Ajani -

Southern Poverty Law Center

I made my yearly donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center today. They send me vial, horrible stuff that makes me ill when I read it. They fight hatred and bigotry in this country, so their newsletters are full of the stories they helped, and the horrible people they expose. I think if I was to define evil it would be the hatred one can feel towards a fellow human. For whatever reason. Usually its because of looks or ethnic group or religious beliefs. Nothing substantial. The hatred is unfounded and a symptom of the person, not the hated group.

Injustice makes me very sad, and is one of the driving forces that inspires me to change things in the world. The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the best non-profits against injustice, and does incredible work. Check them out. Learn how much we have to change in the USA.

Education Generation, Kiva

Yesterday I donated to Lgitharaj Shanmuganathan for his education in Kalmunai, Sri Lanka. Education Generation is a great new non-profit, please check it out and tell all your friends.

I seem to have a lot of Kiva credit and will be making many loans today. Great timing as I am going out of the country in a few days, for 2 weeks. I won't be blogging but I will continue to try to help make things better, not worse.

My new Kiva loans include - Loan Thi Nguyen in Ninh Giang, Viet Nam,

Firudun Mehraliyev in Fuzuli region, Azerbaijan

Nakaweesi, Tusuubira Group in Lugazi, Uganda

Trabajando Para el Futuro Group in Samana, Dominican Republic

La Bendición Group in Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic

Maria Auxiliadora Altamirano Ubeda in Chontales, Nicaragua

Deyanira Aragón Lainez in Managua, Nicaragua

Matluba Kaumova in Shahrinav, Tajikistan

Juan Locuor in San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Román Jara business - Despensa y Carniceria Ña Julia - from Caaguazú, Paraguay

Alejandra Alvarez Villa Elisa, Paraguay

Amavi Délali Baeta in Adidogomé, Togo

Koffi Mawuli Abidonou in Agoe, Togo

Fajri Zain Khan Group Kot Radha Kishan, Pakistan

Habiba Ashburieva in Tursun-zoda, Tajikistan