Donating Money On Kiva Doesn’t Make Me Feel That Good
My mom gave me a gift certificate to Kiva.org for Christmas which is a place where you can lend third-world entrepreneurs money to help grow their businesses. So that they can get rich. And come here. And be annoying rich foreigners. I’m rethinking this.
I was looking around the site and suddenly now that the lending power was in my hands i’m noticing like some guy wanting a loan sitting in an SUV (um, sell the car dude) or rocking a better flat screen monitor than I have.
Also if you look in the South America section you will see a few ladies that are pretty healthy looking… I’m just saying.
Anyhow, I decided to loan my money to Tahira Aliyeva. His page is here. He runs a consulting company and god knows I’ve been there Tahira. I decided to loan to him because I make my money with computers and the internet and it only makes sense to help someone similar along.
Sort of how Kurt Vonnegut talks about your Karass or whatever the glue is that keeps you running into the same people your entire life. If you sell insurance, welp, those are your people dude– make some coffee and get to know one another, it’s gonna be a later night than you think.
Anyhow, a few things about Kiva left me feeling a little empty. If someone at Kiva reads this, please respond if i’m blowing your next press release.. but I wish I had the option to loan money to poor entrepreneurs here in the United States or at least in Mexico. I’m more familiar with those people. Mexicans are good people and have a close connection to us in the US. (Except the mexican guy that works at the Benitos tacos on Santa Monica Blvd and Barrington Ave. He hit me in the leg with a broom sorta-hard a few months ago for using the bathroom even though there was an yellow sign that said not to.)
Kiva seems to like people in faraway, exotic places. It’d be cool to loan some guy in the Appalachian mountains with a computer shop some money, and I would. If he was late on his payments I could send him hinty images of like famous mafia figures. Just a joke. Americans would get a joke like that.
Anyhow, thanks for the gift Mom. It actually did make me feel good to loan money to a person on Kiva. If you want to loan money to my entrepreneur poortrepreneur (I just coined that term. Use it and use it often) i’ve put a banner on the right hand side of my site. Over there ———————->
Then if he fails to pay it we can sit around and talk about him in the comments here like he’s a family member, using common cliches like “loan a dollar lose a friend” etc.
Below is our entrepreneur. Go forth and make us proud Tahira.
Wireless mouse but no keyboard?! WTF.
Here’s my profile:
http://www.kiva.org/lender/andyfox1979
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Well honey, I’m so glad you sort of enjoyed yourself…Just wanted to mention that if you had checked in the “region” tab, you could have chosen a worthy Mexican to lend to. Kiva is about third world lending. There are similar micro finance programs for US persons, however we haven’t found one yet that doesn’t work on what is basically a donation basis. In other words, on Kiva you actually LEND your money and if the entrepreneur repays the money, it is yours to re-lend or cash out. Other sites allow you to choose whom to lend to, but it’s a one shot deal. You don’t get your loan back to re-lend, they do that for you, which for me isn’t as personal and ongoing in the way that Kiva is. When Tahira pays you back, as I’m sure he will, don’t forget to re-lend.
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“It’s not only what we do, but what we fail to do, for which we are accountable. ” Moliere (1622-1673)
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Oh, and I forgot to mention: I think his keyboard might be in one of those tray type things that pull out. Kind of high tech.
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if he has a fancy desk with a keyboard tray like that he’ll probably spend my $25 on like some Virtual Reality headset or something
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kiva does strike one as rather western liberal endeavour, better than just handing the money over.
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Dude,
I just read the description on the link to your Kiva loan. Tahira is not the guy’s name…it’s his mom’s name. We have no clue what his name is.
Looks like you guys have something in common. You had to get the $25 from your mom so you could loan it to his mom to buy his computer.
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Except that I could afford to loan $25 without my moms help… The gag is on the whole thing— loaning money to third worlders.. I know 10 people here in the 1st world who could use the money much more. But I think it’s worthwhile. Whatever makes you good and strong is good for you. Do I need to pop off nuts donating money to people in hell-holes like el salvador? No.
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You should watch the way you talk with your mom on here!
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Wow. Not very worldly now are we? Of course far away small countries are far away and foreign. Read up on what micro lending can do for very underprivileged places and stop ragging on a process you obviously know very little about.
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Also dude – why does someone need to be sickly-looking or have sold all their belongings (and are option-less) to need a loan? It’s the same concept as anyone wanting a loan here in the U.S. – they don’t want to spend their own money (or need more of it).
If you want to feel good by helping someone malnourished and utterly helpless – go for sending aid or charity. Microfinance isn’t for you.
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