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Made some new Kiva loans to Julias and people in Honduras..

Sorry so few posts lately, having 'repetitive stress injury problems' and need to be off the computer. Hard for someone who works on it...

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Juliana Villanueva (business id=186904) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Melvin Armando Almendarez Carcamo (business id=182366) Counted towards Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Jose Lupario Funez Villatoro (business id=182367) Counted towards Intuit
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Yobani Francisco Gomez Maradiaga (business id=183807) Counted towards Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Hugo Rene Medina Garcia (business id=185337) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Yasmina Elena Argueta (business id=179901) Counted towards Intuit
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Jose Maria Dominguez (business id=182358) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monste

Kiva and Ituit

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team, make a $25 loan, & they will donate $10 to Kiva. Don't miss
this great opportunity to support Kiva and entrepreneurs around the
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I made a few loans to Julias for Intuit.

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Julia Soza Perez (business id=183837) Counted towards Intuit
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Ana Julia Moreno Reyes (business id=179470) Counted towards Intuit
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Julia Montejo (business id=185153) Counted towards Intuit

Smithsonian Institute

I made my yearly membership contribution to the Smithsonian today. I believe in it. Just today I was telling someone that it was free and a great thing to do, and could possibly take more than a week to see. I've spent quite a few days there and haven't seen it all.

kiva

I made two Kiva loans today.

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Hilda Yaneth Flores Nuñez (business id=180022) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Candido Ortiz (business id=177495) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Education Generation - Helping fund students

I just helped out Adrian and Rosmery by paying for a bit of their tuition through Education Generation. The funding request is expiring tomorrow, so if you happen to have $20 you can donate to change someone's life....

1000th Kiva loan

Just made my 999, and 1000, and 1001 Kiva loans. All to ladies called 'Julia'.

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Juliana Nduku Makau (business id=179269) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Julia Narda Aguilar Gomez (business id=178328) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Ana Julia Moreno Reyes (business id=179470) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Pasadena Humane Society & SPCA

I renewed my membership in my local SPCA. Its always nice to have somewhere to take injured animals.

kiva loans

Made a few kiva loans today, to everyone in Honduras and a few other people.

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Keelin Ibeth Mascareño (business id=179958) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Rosa Amleia Guachilema Tenemaza (business id=181509) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to El Buen Samaritano Group (business id=177138) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Pedro Pablo Rivera Bustillo (business id=181132) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Yecenia Gonzales (business id=179892) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Felix Pedro Martinez (business id=180591) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Juan Francisco Guzman Flores (business id=180008) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Jose Maria Ponce Ramos (business id=181079) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Lucia Anabel Paz Lopez (business id=179973) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Bello Amanecer Group (business id=179999) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Arling Melissa Medina (business id=180036) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Blanca Nieves Argueta (business id=179881) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Mildred Oneyda Gonzales (business id=179935) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Luis Armando Ortiz Paz (business id=179965) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster	($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Purificacion Artica Rosales (business id=180587) Counted towards Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Green America (Co-op America)

I renewed my membership in Green America (formely known as co-op America) today.

Their mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

Great place to get a list of fair trade sources. Newsletter is informative and interesting.

kiva

New Kiva loan, I'm joining in a friends celebration/ anniversary of Kiva.

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	Loan Purchase of $25 to San Pablo Group (business id=177550) Counted towards Barack Oblogger		($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Marilu Celeste Velarde Vera (business id=177085) Counted towards Barack Oblogger		($25.00)
	Loan Purchase of $25 to El Buen Samaritano Group (business id=177138) Counted towards Barack Oblogger

LA Arboretum

I re-newed my membership to the Arboretum today. Its a great place to hang out, love the peacocks, and its good to keep nature in our lives.

Kiva

Made a few more Kiva loans. Sorry I haven't been keeping up with this blog, been really busy. Money has gotten a bit tight and I'm supporting a few people and its keeping me busy. But life is grand, I have the opportunity to work and make things happen and I am still doing really well compared to many others in the world.

I am still dropping off snacks at the VA, they need them more than ever.

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Norma (business id=174160) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Tatiana Arroyo Bejarano (business id=174136) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Leticia Guadalupe Sánchez Hernández (business id=174083) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Maricel Abi-abi (business id=171551) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Julieta Oropeza (business id=173366) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club

Kiva loans

I made a few kiva loans today. Just randomly chose them.

	Loan Purchase of $25 to Khoem Veurn (business id=168239) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Batzul Galsan (business id=173153) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Brigida Herrera Herrera (business id=171499) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club
	Loan Purchase of $25 to Sandra Galvez Muñoz (business id=172965) Counted towards KIVA Shopping Club

Girl Scout Cookies and Soldiers

I bought 6 boxes of girl scout cookies today to support a friends daughter's troop. I am having them shipped directly to soldiers overseas. Its a win/win situation, I support my friends, the soldiers get cookies.

Kiva

Kiva has run out of loans again (YAH!), but I managed to get in one one to Luis in Tarma, Peru.

Luis is 23 years old. He is single, and he is an enterprising and very enthusiastic young man. He lives in a rented house near the highway exit for his town.

In spite of the fact that he was not able to complete higher education as a mechanic because of a lack of money, he wants to continue moving forward with the hope of making progress. For the past year, he has worked as an assistant to an auto mechanic, and he believes that he now has the necessary experience to open his own workshop. This is well-paid work which permits him to live without worries.

This is Luis' sixth loan with MFP, and he has been happy to see that each time he comes closer to his dream of having his own workshop. He also enjoys working with his communal bank, because its members are well-organized and responsible people. With the funds he is currently soliciting, he will be able to buy a welding machine so that he can begin offering services in his own mechanic's workshop.

New Kiva Loan

Made a kiva loan today.

Geoconda Vera is an active member of the communal bank "El Pedregal," located in the Picoaza parish in the city of Portoviejo in Manabí province.

Geoconda has been married for 14 years; she is a housewife but also has a business selling colas (soft drinks) and juices along with her husband. They have had this business for 10 years. She tells us that her children are still small and they have to work hard to advance their family economically. They deliver their products wholesale to the stores in some places in Portoviejo and they run the business through orders. Two times a week they go to visit their customers in their own car, taking orders and then later delivering them.

With this new loan Geoconda will buy more crates of colas and juices; she comments that in order for her business to grow she must the entire loan that the Foundation gives them.

Geoconda's dream is to be able to be able to finish her house, which still needs some work done on it.

kiva

Found a loan on Kiva to Namengo Group, Lugazi. I was amazed at the statistics; Kiva has lent over $100 million, and I can remember when they rejoiced at making their first million.

Doctors Without Borders in Haiti

Another Kiva loan and Gift Certificate

Back in the country, made a Kiva loan today to Julian Albadi in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. She needs a loan to purchase more shoes and bags to sell.