WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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At only thirty-two years of age, Jessica Jackley is revolutionizing the world of small business as the co-founder of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website. Named as one of the top ideas in 2006 by the New York Times Magazine, Kiva.org lets Internet users lend as little as $25 to specific developing world entrepreneurs, providing affordable capital to help them start or expand a small business. In its first three years, Kiva.org has helped to raise more than $61 million and connected thousands of people across 120 countries. Jackley speaks to a crowded house in Bloomington on microfinance as a means to eliminate poverty in this WFHB exclusive.
