Explore the universe of microlending opportunities available through the global Kiva community quickly and conveniently. Learn about regions and countries with the greatest microcredit needs. Read borrowers’ stories, view photos and video interviews, save and share microlending opportunities with like-minded friends or take the plunge and directly help someone in need with a micro-loan of as little as $25.
• Browse micro-loans ordered by common features like popularity, amount, recency or switch to detailed search criteria, such as industry, gender, region and country, combined with free text searches, such as “musician” or “green grocer”
• Read “entrepreneurs”’ background, how they will use the loan, view photos and videos (where available), and review loan and field partner details
• Save loans for later review. See where the borrower is located on a world map and zoom in to see additional geographic detail
• Share micro-lending opportunities on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and LinkedIn
• Explore over 70 countries where Kiva is active with historical index data and charts
• Choose one or more microlending opportunities to fund and complete the process on kiva.org from within the app
• Review the loans you’ve previously financed through Kiva.
• Link to your Kiva account profile. Review available credit and loan balances from your microlending portfolio
• Currently available in Français, Español, Deutsch, Italiano, 简体中国, Svenska, Nederlands and 日本語 localizations, with more in the works
• iCloud synchronization of settings
• Available for iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and iPod touch running iOS 5.0 - iOS 6
KivaBridge, helping to ‘close the gap’ in microphilanthropy.
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