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Kiva

Jeevesh Konuru

12/7/10

Period 2

Essay

Dollars Disguised As Pennies

            Kiva is a unique organization that lets everyday people make huge differences and impacts on people all around the world in trouble and poverty. Everyday people like you and me can donate $25 or more to those people in trouble, and in need of some money in order to start a micro-enterprise and lift themselves out of poverty. Once they receive the donation that a citizen in a developed country makes they buy things that will help there business. All of these people are in desperate need of the money, and they are all well deserving of it.

             One of the many people in developing countries who are struggling to make a bare living is Goodliva Batromeo. She is a hard working micro-entrepreneur living in Tanzania. She has 3 kids, who she is struggling to feed everyday. Her micro-enterprise is an over the counter fish selling business. She is requesting $1,700 in order to get better equipment to catch fish more easily and steadily. She will also use the lone in order to make everything more sanitary, protecting the meat better, and getting her more customers.

            Goodliva Batromeo deserves a donation for many reasons. Imagine yourself in this position: you get up in the morning and go directly to catch the days fish to sell without breakfast because you don’t have enough money to buy enough food even though your 3 children are starving and have malnutrition; only to find that your nets are broken and torn; so you go to the market anyway and decide to sell the one fish that broke your net yesterday when you caught it; but nobody bought the fish since it was smelly and already rotting; and the only thing you got all day was a complaint that the one fish you sold yesterday was bad and the buyer got sick. This is the life Batromeo is forced to live every single day. So by giving her a simple donation you can allow her to get more customers and money because she would be catching more fish, and keeping the fish more sanitary and clean. With the more money she gets she can feed her children. By giving that simple donation you can be saving the three innocent lives of those children.

            By giving Batromeo a donation you are not only saving her kids and lifting her out of the treacherous cycle of poverty, but you could also be helping her whole community. The donation could provide more reliable food. It can also save many of Batromeo’s customers from sickness. Overall your small miniscule donation can have gargantuan effects on her and her whole community.

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