Cataylst Session #2
Posted by Ryan Geiger on October 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
- 9:57 AM ryangeiger - Jessica Jackley is the co-founder of Kiva.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer online microlending website.
- 9:58 AM ryangeiger - This will be a an interview by Reggie Joyner
- 9:59 AM ryangeiger - Jackie is talking about poverty and how we as a society exploit the poor through sadness and it doesn’t have to be that way.
- 10:00 AM ryangeiger - Compassion is a beautiful thing. She felt bad, guilty and shameful about her wealth.
- 10:01 AM ryangeiger - She wanted to just throw money at the problem
- 10:04 AM ryangeiger - did $500,ooo in the first year of peer-to-peer loans on average $500 per person
- 10:04 AM ryangeiger - 4th year and they are up to 100 hundred million dollars of transfer each year
- 10:04 AM ryangeiger - Here is the link to Kiva. www.kiva.org
- 10:05 AM ryangeiger - Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.
- 10:06 AM ryangeiger - You can follow Kiva on Twitter at twitter.com #cat09
- 10:07 AM ryangeiger - Poverty creates distance between the rich and poor. Kiva is trying to blur the lines and build connections of dignity and hope.
- 10:08 AM ryangeiger - Kiva just launched in the US a few months ago…now those who were recieved years ago may be able to help someone else here in America.
- 10:08 AM ryangeiger - It’s all about seeing each other as human beings.
