Comments on: The Hand-out vs. Hand-up Approach to Bailouts http://www.victorcheng.com/hand-out-vs-hand-up Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:53:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Victor Cheng http://www.victorcheng.com/hand-out-vs-hand-up#comment-56 Victor Cheng Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:33:05 +0000 http://www.victorcheng.com/?p=557#comment-56 I've found the process of being lender on Kiva surprisingly fun. I've been making loans for about a year. In looking at the repayment history of my borrowers, something like 98.5% are current on their payments. That's like 30 times better than subprime borrowers here in the U.S. Amazing... puts us to shame. I’ve found the process of being lender on Kiva surprisingly fun. I’ve been making loans for about a year. In looking at the repayment history of my borrowers, something like 98.5% are current on their payments. That’s like 30 times better than subprime borrowers here in the U.S. Amazing… puts us to shame.

]]> By: Terri Zwierzynski http://www.victorcheng.com/hand-out-vs-hand-up#comment-45 Terri Zwierzynski Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.victorcheng.com/?p=557#comment-45 Kiva is such a cool idea! I made my first loan a few weeks ago, to a group of women entrepreneurs in Peru. I plan to make more loans in the coming months :) I was introduced to Kiva by mastermind colleague Denise Wakeman, who is offering a Big 5-0 challenge (she's turning 50)...she wants to get enough folks to join and make loans at Kiva to reach $5000 in the month of June (if you'd like to join her effort: event:http://budurl.com/big50). Whether you join Denise's challenge or not, please do consider lending a hand via Kiva. Kiva is such a cool idea! I made my first loan a few weeks ago, to a group of women entrepreneurs in Peru. I plan to make more loans in the coming months :)

I was introduced to Kiva by mastermind colleague Denise Wakeman, who is offering a Big 5-0 challenge (she’s turning 50)…she wants to get enough folks to join and make loans at Kiva to reach $5000 in the month of June (if you’d like to join her effort: event:http://budurl.com/big50).

Whether you join Denise’s challenge or not, please do consider lending a hand via Kiva.

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