This is Mrs. Félicité Avice, a native of Togo who was born "around 1969". She is one of the entrepreneurs featured on Kiva's website. Félicité is seeking a microloan to help her getting her travelling sales business up and running again after her recent illness. She sells several items, but most of all, soap, and she intends to use the loan to buy eighteen cases of soap, among other items.
I've blogged before about Kiva, and if you go to their website, you're going to find a whole list of worthies, all seeking financial aid to lift themselves and their loved ones out of poverty. No matter whom you chose as the one you want to help, the loan you would need to make is just $25.00. That's it. That's all. The cool thing about giving here is that you never need to give any more, because once the recipient of your first loan has repaid it, you can re-invest your money in the cause of a second entrepreneur, and so on, to the Nth degree. Of course, if you feel so inclined, you can give more, but there are so many of us who could afford to give that $25. without it making any real difference in our lives. It's at the receiving end that our little gestures of generosity assume gargantuan proportions. Félicité is requesting a total loan of $575.00. We could get that to her. Just 23 of us need to send off those $25.00.
The reason I'm asking extra help here is because of that little detail in her bio - born around 1969. This woman has already had more than enough in her life of being so insignificant that no-one pays attention to her. The detail about her birth really struck me. Not even knowing your own birth date would be beyond the imagination of most North Americans. We need to reach out to more people like Félicité, and let them know that we do care.
Can you help?
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