Mortgage the House! Sell the Kids! There's a Loan Up Now You Won't Want to Miss.

[Guest]

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[Jill]

     No, not yet, you guys.  I'm just getting us ready....
     I thought I'd get us a thread that we could have, ready and waiting, for when one of those really really special loans finally shows up, that so many of us are constantly on the lookout for.  Then, whoever spots it first can jump on this thread and
call, "All Aboard!"
like when someone sees:

Loans from Haiti, Gaza, from new Field Partners in new places, wherever.

School loans, Well (Water) loans, AIDS Clinic loans, whatever.

Loans with Stories that are Particularly Poignant or Captivating.

or Music loans or Bookstore loans or Especially Wonderful Arts or Crafts loans
or Unusual or Fascinating (kinds of) Work loans, or......
you get the idea.

Sky's the limit.

      So, if you see a loan that you think is particularly special, and
you think that some of your KivaFriends would want to be a part of it, too,
         Post Away......

[Jill]

                A School Loan.  Finally.
I'd have preferred to have had a passel of precious little school kids in the Entrepreneur photo,
but the way things have been going, lately, on the Kiva website, I'll Gladly take whatever I can get.
All aboard who's coming aboard.....
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=26954


      "Impoverished sector of the city"-- School's Roof that needs fixing before winter sets in,
yep, it's good enough to get me.

EDIT:  From the way things had been looking, with five Kivans signing on in a row, I'd thought that maybe we'd have a corner
         on this loan's market.  But then I saw that someone, I think her name was Kathleen, from Leavenworth, Kansas,
         had spotted the loan maybe before any of us.  But you know what, that's fine.  We're glad to have this Doctor
         from Kansas who, interestingly, signed up with Kiva on the date, September 11th.....

EDIT #2:  Hell, (or heck, for anyone whose ears may smoke), we're glad to have anybody else jump on, KivaFriend, yet,
               or not.

[QueenOfHearts]

Five Kiva Friends and counting.....

Queen

[Henry]

6 or more now...  

[howard]

Great idea. I've joined you on the school roof in Guayaquil. Wonder if we'll see Haiti again - too much trouble for the Dominican Rep FP? Gaza - no thanks - not until things change drastically. DR Congo repaid well - what happened? And Chad?
Not a good time to mortgage the house, though, and nobody would buy my kids! I'll have to give up on cigareets and whusky and wild wild wimmen. Is Kiva worth it, I wonder?

[QueenOfHearts]

eight and still counting

missed you Howard first time around....

Queen

[Peter S]

I joined you on that one, Jill - and 6 other Kiva Friends so far.

I looked more closely at the photo after I chipped in.  The banner on the back wall has the name of the school (the Kiva business name) on the lower border, and Academia Militar along the top. The motto in the centre of the banner says "el que se atreve vence" - "Who Dares Wins", first used by the British SAS, and now adopted by 9 other national special forces elite units according to Wikipedia.

The school seems to have a mention on the website of Ecuador's Ministry of National Defence..
http://midena.gov.ec/content/view/2801/207/
which Babelfish renders as:
SECOND DIVISION OF EXERCISE MATERIAL DELIVERY DIDACTICO With a developed Military Civic program in the Military school "FIRST CORPORAL PATRICIO GONZALEZ CHIRIBOGA", located in the sector of the Paradise of the Flower of Bastion, yesterday 10 of August [2005], the Second Division of I exercise "Freedom", I give didactic material to 545 students, this act told on the presence of Sergeant González combatant ex- Patricio of the Cenepa and patrono to this educative establishment.

mmm, that's a first..   

[QueenOfHearts]

we can always count on you peter to do the research......

[Peter S]

we can always count on you peter to do the research......

it's my inquiring mind 

The school seems to be named after a hero of the brief Cenepa War between Ecuador and Peru in 1995. More of a border skirmish really. Perfectly harmless place to be educated I'm sure. But hold on, now I'm wondering about that combat jacket you can see on the left of the photo...

[Jill]

      Peter,
      At just about the same time that I was seeing and snagging and then, posting, this quote from a Lender on Kiva's Home Page,
you were discovering that this school we had just opened our pocketbooks to support this morning may well be a military school,
that is, if I read your post correctly.

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."

      My immediate responses to that News:
Sometimes life can be purty inneresting.
I guess Military Schools have to have leak-proof roofs, too.           and.....

Let's hope that even if it is a military school, that they have a peace component in their curriculum.
                             
                                                                                          (There's a smile and a head-shake, included here, free of charge).