Blog Action Day
Submitted by rlp on Wed, 10/15/2008 - 13:50.
Today is Blog Action Day. I encourage you to check out the website.
For years I struggled with the idea of poverty. I fought with the big questions, the hows and the whys. I felt deep guilt. It seemed to me that Jesus was pretty passionate about helping the poor. Was I doing enough? Probably not.
In my 40s I finally learned to think small when it comes to poverty. I wrote an article about this for Blog Action Day. You can find it at the High Calling Blog Network if you would like to read it.
There are a lot of bloggers out there. We're telling our stories of poverty today.
rlp
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indeed, we are. for my part,
indeed, we are.
for my part, i turn to sites like freerice (rice donation), kiva (microfinance), and goodsearch (donation per search), as ways to help alleviate poverty online. i also put up their banners on my blog. :)
saw this post via the front page of blog action day. it's great that you're participating. :)
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i just found your blog, rlp. thanks for posting and giving your time to this issue. good for you.
i do hope your readers are moved to donate to the charity of their choice.
Great post, I myself wrote
Great post, I myself wrote one at: http://www.guruofsales.com/general/427/fight-poverty-its-blog-action-day... and the action has not stopped. Would you share your thoughts by a comment there as well?
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An excellent post. Your writing is always so approachable, so clear and sincere. Thank you...
Unilove
Is Microfinance the solution?
I recently noticed Schwab Charitable launched a microfinance guarantee program. Does anyone have experience or opinion on this?
This program differs from direct microfinance gifts in that funds are used to guarantee loans—like a parent co-signing a student loan.
I think it is interesting that this Schwab Charitable program is among a few organizations popping up—Kiva.org and Microplace.com—that are helping to bring microfinance funding opportunities to middle class Americans.
And microfinance in general is such contrast to the mess created by the credit crisis. It is succeeding because loans are transparent, lenders know the borrowers, borrowers are not encouraged to take out more debt than they need and loans aren’t run through a Veg-o-matic that slices and dices the loans beyond recognition.
Default rates are less than 3 percent for microfinance loans, this despite the fact that loan recipients are typically poverty-stricken entrepreneurs in some of the world’s least developed economies..
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