Something which is quite important to me is the idea of equality, to me it that means less about the niggles of everyday life in the UK which we complain about as being unfair for whatever reason, but attempting to make equal people accross the world, to this end I use a website called Kiva.org
Kiva is a microfinance lender, it operates by allowing you to loan someone a minimum of $25 . You can choose who you want your $25 to go to from the list on their website, your $25 is usually a fraction of the total amount being loaned out. Each loan is disbursed through a local person or organisation, it's these people who then collect back the repayments each month - you then get an email once a month telling you how much has been repaid and thus how much you have to reloan.
You don't earn interest on the money and in most cases you don't lose money either although there is a danger of currency loss as some loans are made in US$ while others are made in the local currency.
As it stands I have been a Kiva lender for a little over 2 years and have made 8 loans with $52 , reloaning each time enough has come back in to my account. You can make the original payment to Kiva via paypal, and can when the laon is fully repaid have the money paid back in to paypal shold you wish.
Take a look, you may help change the life somebody you'll never meet in a country you'll never visit!
Kiva
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