Neighbors - Dorice from KADET explains Kiva to Kiva entrepreneurs

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Video: How MFI’s explain Kiva to borrowers

Fellows blog from Jenny Jin, KF11 – Kenya, KADET

I’m a whimsical documentarian, and the video clips that I find on my computer consistently surprise me if they turn out to have captured something.  After officially ending my fellowship this past week, while waiting for my flight back to San Francisco and missing Kenya already, I was idly flicking through my computer files and I found a pretty excellent clip that I wanted to share with the Kiva community.

This clip features Dorice explaining what Kiva is to a 15-member group of KADET clients in Western Kenya. This was Dorice’s first time explaining Kiva, and she uses an interesting analogy of describing Kiva/Kiva lenders as neighbors that I thought it was a very simple yet apt way to capture Kiva’s spirit to the right audience.  As I’ve heard and seen many times, Kenyans live in close-knit communities where  lending to neighbors is one of the most common forms of community support. 

Read the rest of this blog post here: http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2010/08/01/video-how-mfis-explain-kiva-to-borrowers/