"The person-to-person donor-to-borrower connections created by Kiva are partly fictional. I suspect that most Kiva users do not realize this." The storm unleashed by a blog post exploring a model in which loans go to microfinance institutions, not necessarily the specific Mr. goat herder or Ms. cassava farmer upon whose face you click. (NYT)
Digging in to the donor details at Kiva.org
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