Our Kiva team: $200,000 and counting!
Jan 2nd
Friends of Bob Harris, a team of 279 generous people I'm honored to nominally lead, has just passed the $200,000 mark in total funds raised.
That money has gone to help fund nearly 8,000 microloans to schools, clinics, and mom-and-pop businesses in more than 50 countries across the developing world.
If that's not specific enough, here's an example of what these loans do:
Meet Jacqueline, a mother of three in Kigali, Rwanda, who has used loans like these to grow a tiny business trading cassava and sweet potatoes into a small grocery store — thereby providing a better home, better food, and a better overall life for her beautiful children.
Jacqueline was generous and sweet in sharing her story for my book — a story typical of microfinance clients I've met on four continents so far.
Want to kick in a few bucks? You get paid back about 99 percent of the time, after all. Join us!
Mmm… creamy, delicious wall paint
Jan 1st
Delightful strangeness, noticed while walking around Kigali:
Dude, do you really want me to taste your wall paint?
If not, why are you advertising it to look like lemon custard?