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Micro-financing makes seed capital available to poor people who want to start their own business but simply cannot afford to get the started.  The opportunity to rely on themselves, to think realistically of a day when poverty will be a thing of the past for themselves, their families, and possibly their communities, as well, is an enormous blessing for all concerned. None of this happens easily, of course. Much hard work and dogged determination will be required to make these micro-businesses into growing, thriving, profitable success stories. But most of these dreams do, in fact, come true. As the business owners get to work, and start seeing their labors bear fruit, beliefs in scarcity and the inevitability of poverty start evaporating. These outcomes would be impossible without the initial loan of seed capital by small-scale venture capitalists like you and me. That's where micro-lending site Kiva comes in. Kiva brings together low-income would-be business owners in 70+ countri...

Micro-financing makes seed capital available to poor people who want to start their own business but simply cannot afford to get the started.  The opportunity to rely on themselves, to think realistically of a day when poverty will be a thing of the past for themselves, their families, and possibly their communities, as well, is an enormous blessing for all concerned. None of this happens easily, of course. Much hard work and dogged determination will be required to make these micro-businesses into growing, thriving, profitable success stories. But most of these dreams do, in fact, come true. As the business owners get to work, and start seeing their labors bear fruit, beliefs in scarcity and the inevitability of poverty start evaporating. These outcomes would be impossible without the initial loan of seed capital by small-scale venture capitalists like you and me. That's where micro-lending site Kiva comes in. Kiva brings together low-income would-be business owners in 70+ countri...

Micro-financing makes seed capital available to poor people who want to start their own business but simply cannot afford to get the started.  The opportunity to rely on themselves, to think realistically of a day when poverty will be a thing of the past for themselves, their families, and possibly their communities, as well, is an enormous blessing for all concerned. None of this happens easily, of course. Much hard work and dogged determination will be required to make these micro-businesses into growing, thriving, profitable success stories. But most of these dreams do, in fact, come true. As the business owners get to work, and start seeing their labors bear fruit, beliefs in scarcity and the inevitability of poverty start evaporating. These outcomes would be impossible without the initial loan of seed capital by small-scale venture capitalists like you and me. That's where micro-lending site Kiva comes in. Kiva brings together low-income would-be business owners in 70+ countri...