The defining moment in my life that shifted the way I was thinking...and brought me to ubuntu.
Great question. Tough to answer.
In the sense of living and breathing and working and playing.
I just got off the phone with Kiva. KIVA! There is a small chance I could potentially volunteer with them if they liked me today. Potentially intern for them. Obviously not with my trip coming up, but in the coming year. I'm flying right now. And no one is home to talk to me about it. So I'm going to rant here ! Kiva is truly empowering lives and stimulating the economy through microfinanced loans in the developing world. I'm sure you've all heard of them. Anyway, this year they lauched JoinFITE.org.
FITE is a global empowerment platform powered by Kiva.org that is designed to foster Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship for women in the developing world. Their mission is to provide women entrepreneurs access to small loans that will help them start or grow a business; and to help educate the public at large about the benefits of empowering women entrepreneurs so that they “can hold up their half of the sky.”
Leading thinkers in social development, including the World Bank, hail investing in women as “smart economics,” an untapped resource that can help solve many of the problems we see in our world today. Indeed, lending to women produces a positive ripple effect of improved health, education, and welfare for all household members.
And yet, investments in women are not being made. Women are traditionally more likely to be denied a loan by a bank, and often face high levels of financial discrimination. More than 70% of people who live below the poverty line are women.
FITE aims to change that. FITE promotes gender equality, stimulates local economies and empowers women to become active, involved and powerful change makers.
For more information on them, please visit their website. Make a loan of only $25. And see one of their biggest inspirations to launch the FITE program -- Half the Sky.
FITE is a global empowerment platform powered by Kiva.org that is designed to foster Financial Independence Through Entrepreneurship for women in the developing world. Their mission is to provide women entrepreneurs access to small loans that will help them start or grow a business; and to help educate the public at large about the benefits of empowering women entrepreneurs so that they “can hold up their half of the sky.”
Leading thinkers in social development, including the World Bank, hail investing in women as “smart economics,” an untapped resource that can help solve many of the problems we see in our world today. Indeed, lending to women produces a positive ripple effect of improved health, education, and welfare for all household members.
And yet, investments in women are not being made. Women are traditionally more likely to be denied a loan by a bank, and often face high levels of financial discrimination. More than 70% of people who live below the poverty line are women.
FITE aims to change that. FITE promotes gender equality, stimulates local economies and empowers women to become active, involved and powerful change makers.
For more information on them, please visit their website. Make a loan of only $25. And see one of their biggest inspirations to launch the FITE program -- Half the Sky.
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