Tomorrow is the first of the month again (already!). So it's time for a donation. This time my little ten dollars are going to the Second Harvest Food Bank, where I am also trying to volunteer when and if my schedule will allow it. Seems to be a lot of volunteering on Saturday, when I work.
I also loaned my April quota on kiva.org. I chose Las Picaflores group from Chile, a group of 15 entrepeneurs who mostly make and sell clothing. The leader of the group wants to start her own sewing store. According to the group profile, they are located in a region of Chile that is mostly indigenous. I didn't donate to any Chilean organizations like I did with Haiti, so this way I'm helping out a bit. My lending team on kiva.org is LunaLend: just register, click on Community, and search for LunaLend to join it. There are all kinds of people to lend to, from the US to the Sudan. The funds are usually dispersed by the micro lending organizations ahead of time, and the money lent by kiva members fill those loans. When repayments are made, it goes to your kiva account as credit that you can then draw out or apply to another loan.
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