Kiva

Kiva Youth Project is an initiative in partnership with Kiva.org working to encourage the founding of student-led microfinance student organizations in high schools and universities nationwide. Our goal is to help students utilize the power of microfinance to empower social mobility in their local communities, nationwide, and internationally and to foster a nationwide community of Kiva microfinance clubs and a future of national conferences, international missions, microfinance internship programs, and much more. Our umbrella organization, Kiva.org, is a non-profit microfinance organization that provides microloans to people in need worldwide, especially in developing nations. These loans create opportunities for individuals to change their lives by jump-starting businesses, funding higher education, paying medical bills, and more. Once borrowers are successful, they repay their loans to the Kiva organization, where their funds are reused to create new opportunities, continuing the microloan cycle.