Want to see what five years of global micro-lending looks like in the form of a war games map of the world?
Kiva Microfunds, the San Francisco based organization that facilitates Internet lending of small scale loans to students and entrepreneurs with the aim of alleviating poverty. In five years Kiva has facilitated over $240 million in loans, and attracted more than 620,000 lenders. For details about Kiva's lending and many of the projects Kiva loans have funded, click here.
To get a sense of all the activity Kiva has sparked, take a look at the animated map Kiva has produced to mark five years of micro-lending:
Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance from Kiva on Vimeo.
Posted
09-14-2011 8:31 AM
by
Graham Griffith