__support the fight against poverty: kiva

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business, charity, empower, fight, kiva, life, loan, make a change, microloan, money, poverty, support, women

Do you need to do your good deed for the day? Join Kiva!

I needed to share this with all our lovely blogger followers! Here is the invite from me:

http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/ermisenda1487

They are giving away $25 vouchers that you can use to lend to disadvantaged entrepreneurs over the globe. The money is paid back, since it’s a loan, and you can re-loan it infinite times. You can augment your donation pool or keep it at $25. Support the fight against poverty by lending micro-loans to agriculture, food, retail, etc. projects!

I love supporting and lending through Kiva and for those who are on a budget, you can still lend with their new users promotion where they give you $25 to start with. What are you waiting for?

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__thoughts on the girl effect

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The Girl Effect, as stated in a previous post, is a wonderful charity. Their aim is to eradicate poverty and they believe this can be done through girls. I felt like writing a post about this to support the wonderful work and goal they are apart of.

Reblogged on Ermisenda's tumblr

Are women the key? Maybe they are. As a woman I would like to think that we are the key to solving poverty and eradicating the mistreatment and abuse of girls. Personally, I believe a single gender cannot be the key and men/boys are just as important in eradicating poverty and cruelty. Who are often the perpetrators of violence, child marriages and restricting women’s rights? Are men to blame? Men are not to blame because in many third world countries (and first world) there are negative role models (e.g. parents), obscure traditions and beliefs (men are superior to women, the boys grow up with this belief just like we may grow up with knowing the sky is blue) and often foreigners exploit the people and young children for their own, perverted gain; the adults in that society may see that as an opportunity to make some money to survive.