New Kiva loan

I’ve played around on Kiva, making five loans to micro businesses. My results had been mixed: one of the loans, to a farmer in Cameroon, became delinquent pretty quickly. However, today I got word that the farmer just paid back the loan, in full! Encouraged by his responsibility, today I made another Kiva loan, this time to a dairy farm in Newburg, Pennsylvania (population 336).

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