Kiva Loan #44

As you may know, we are actively involved with Kiva, a microloan nonprofit that is fighting global poverty by assisting connecting lenders with borrowers who own small businesses in poor areas. Our 44th Kiva microloan to a small business owner in a developing nation takes us to Indonesia, where Beatrix manages a vegetable stand at a local food market. Beatrix is a married working mom with five kids and her income helps support her children’s high school and college expenses. With her loan, which was funded by us and 20 other Kiva lenders from around the world, she will be buying corn and rice in bulk to add to improve her business.

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The Day We Were Reminded that Spring Isn’t Here Yet

While we (OK, Brigette mostly) have been walking around inspecting every inch of the garden for signs of Spring to break through and looking at all the trees for signs of Spring to bud, and looking at all the birds to see if any Spring ones have arrived, we were reminded today that no, Spring isn’t quite here yet!

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