Kiva

Today in the wonderful Honor's Human Geography class with Mr. Schick we went over an extra credit assignment that works with Kiva.com. Mr. Schick showed us the website and it is actually very simple to use. You can browse the lists of the borrowers by using filters by country, job, gender, or species. When you select a borrower you can read a summary about them, look at their designated total amount of money, and how much time is left in their goal. You can donate to the borrower in $25 increments. The borrower will use your money for whatever they say they are going to use it for in their summary. After they use your money they have a certain amount of time to repay your loan. Once they return your money you can use it again to help out another person. After that the bell rang and ended class.

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