community project

African Loan Program

Basically, what I seek to do is to start a club at my high school to give loans to needy small African businesses that are trying to expand. When you think about all the aid that is going to Africa, you have to realize that so much of the money behind that goes to people in other continents (the farmers themselves, the pharmaceutical companies, etc.). I was inspired by a PBS show about a group called KIVA (found at kiva.org). It is a group dedicated to setting up local groups that approve their own loans for people in their communities.