High Five, Ousmane!

My Senegalese vegetable farmer, Ousmane Ndiaye, has paid back the microloan I helped fund so he and his four buddies could start a farm. I'm just posting this here to plug Kiva.org--now get over there and find a third-world entrepreneur you want to help! You scroll through photos of the entrepreneurs, read descriptions of their projects, and pick which one to loan money to. You can loan as little as $25, and when it's paid back, you can either get the money back or loan it to another third-world entrepreneur. Since the World Bank is somewhere between oblivious and corrupt, it's not going to do the right thing (did you see this New York Times article on Malawi, which ended a huge famine by ignoring the World Bank's pressure to worship at the shrine of the "Free" Market?). So we might as well do the right thing ourselves, $25 at a time...