Make A Loan - Get A Matching Donation !

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[reb-mar]

Hi Sherri,
Thank you for doing this. 
Here is our farming loan. Anyone else care to invest in a melon farmer?
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=47393&_tpos=2&_tpg=1

                     Rebecca 
P.S.
Thank you for providing links to various organizations on your website.

[Sherri]

Thanks Oli and everyone!

Agriculture! That's the word I was looking for when I started this. I kept thinking 'plant-food farmer'? Lol. Agricultural farmer. That's the term. Haha.

Got 5 takers so far. Lots of good possibilities listed by Colette too.

Psst- thanks Rebecca- glad you found the links interesting. PM me if you know of other good resources I should include links to on that page!

[Sherri]

Hi Sherri,
Thank you for doing this. 
Here is our farming loan. Anyone else care to invest in a melon farmer?
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=47393&_tpos=2&_tpg=1
                     Rebecca 

Rebecca,

I just had to join you on this loan! That's my first one to Senegal. I just love the picture with that tasty looking melon!

[reb-mar]

       Thanks Sherri,
           Our first loan there too!

                     Rebecca 

[Tomcat]

I got in on the Samoan group loan with a new Kiva credit!

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=43808

Thanks, Sherri for your matching program! Like I need another incentive to make more loans!

Tomcat

[Diane R]

Here's my entry: 

Usmonjon Abdulloev from Tajikistan, who is "... engaged in the family business of growing and selling rice, onions, potatoes and carrots. Besides that, he also is engaged in wholesale tea trading."  (Add a livestock seller and a dairy farmer as neighbors and we've pretty much covered the waterfront!)

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=40900



Great hat, but too bad he looks so solemn.

--Diane.

[Sherri]

Excellent! Thanks Diane!

That puts the count at 7 so far...

(Agreed, that hat is something else!)

[cpbailey]

Here is a new one.  He grows rice, an increasingly expensive commodity.  After the cyclone in Myanmar (previously Burma), rice is expected to be even shorter in supply.  Myanmar where the cyclone hit is low lying and necesarily near water, perfect for rice and cyclones!  It is a rice self-supporting nation or at least it has been. 

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/05/07/ap4980320.html

Here is the loan for an Ecuadorian rice farm.  I am sure he will find a market for his rice!  At six months, this is a shorter term loan, too!

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=47288&_tpos=6&_tpg=1

Edit--a female rice farmer from Ecuador is also available.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=47286&_tpos=20&_tpg=1

Colette

[Sherri]

Yes, the situation in Burma is so sad! It's too bad that there is such bureaucracy in getting aid into the country.

Thanks for posting these suggestion Colette! Are you going to do one yourself?

[cpbailey]

Sherri,

I am in re-loan mode, so it is all about the timing!  I have more causes to support than funds, so it will be a fist fight to see which wins out.  If I see the vegetarian restaurant in Peru again, all bets are off.  Solar cookers would also be way up on my lists.  My next loan is scheduled for May 11, I think.

My next loans I hope to find in Tajikistan, Ecuador, or Indonesia (MBK especially).  If a good, short term loan that meets your specs is available in those countries, it will be a strong contender.  I have three others coming up in May and at least two in June, so it is just a matter of time...

Meanwhile, to support your concept and the foundation, I can post contenders for those whose timing is different.

Colette