kiva...

as you know i am a big cheerleader for kiva.org... i love the story of how this group began, i love the dreams that they are able to fulfill for people across the world, i love that it just plain works....for over the years i have been repaid the loans that i have given to others, imagine that - strangers from what seem like far away places to my little world in the mountains...from peru, cambodia, pakistan to other countries, that sadly i have to admit, i had never heard of....all working hand in hand.

when i am repaid some money through kiva - they drop me an email telling me i have a credit....this has turned into an adventure/lesson for eli and i, for we sit at the computer and read about others needs, where they live and what their hopes and dreams are...today we received an email - loan has been paid....eli ran down to the computer so we could pull up loans that were needed....these amounts start at $25.00, which is our budget. he said he wanted to give to africa, so off we were to search for places that we've never been to, to meet strangers that we will never know in our lifetime and to help if we can...he decided on this group of women in jinja....(which i had to look up on a map having not heard of it myself), jinja is where the nile begins....how cool is that?, and here is their story...

"Mirondo Betty is the leader of Tufube group in Jinja. She is a married lady with 5 children as she cares for many relatives. Betty is a poultry farmer rearing layer chickens whose eggs she sells to customers and shop owners in Wanyange and Jinja town. She has included the keeping of broilers just for the Easter season and she hopes to reap big profits from their sales. In addition to poultry, she is also a farmer growing food mainly for home consumption and this helps her not to spend so much on food for her family. Betty needs a loan to help with buying feed for her chickens, since this period is so important for their feeding."

i plan that when i turn 60 i will become a world traveler...i will spend the next 10 years traveling the world to visit all of the countries that i can. those that i have read about, heard about, seen pictures of and perhaps make discoveries of my own...and hopefully, one day eli will become a world traveler too...the seed has been planted...