Help an Entrepreneur in Need with Kiva

Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 07:03am by David Askaripour in Communities

Kiva I earnestly advise entrepreneurs around the world to help those in need. Whether it’s through offering advice, making donations, using your talents to help someone’s business succeed, or loaning a few dollars to entrepreneurs in developing countries who do not have the means to raise capital to fuel their businesses; capital that can help pull them out of poverty and help ensure a better life for them and their families.

With Kiva, you can help these struggling entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who are probably no different than you and I in terms of creativity, determination, ambition, and desire to succeed.

But there is one difference that can’t simply be ignored: these entrepreneurs are living in countries that substantially prohibit their ability to raise capital for their ventures. Living in a country where food and shelter are constant worries, you can see how there isn’t exactly much disposable income for business ventures.

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This post may come off as a sales pitch for Kiva and though I have no stake in the company or even know any employee of the company, I feel compelled to push their cause as an entrepreneur who understands how hard it is to bootstrap a business here in America, let alone in a developing country with fewer opportunities.

Being fortunate enough to live in a country such as America or other economically thriving (relatively speaking) countries that you may live in, it can be easy to forget about such struggling entrepreneurs when most of us will never experience even 10% of the hardship that these people face on a daily basis.

Loaning money to an entrepreneur in the Kiva program will change lives and go a long way to continue the entrepreneurial spirit that so many of us have come to love. It’s never too late to lend a helping hand.

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