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Holiday Kiva Lending

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Happy New Year readers! I hope your holidays were as festive and fun as mine. With a fresh new year ahead of me I’m motivated to tackle my “to do” list, and top of the list is to manage my loan funding at Kiva.org.
Just before Christmas I received notice that $25 had been repaid from [...]

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Protest at the Legislature

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A protest rally was held today on the lawn of the NB legislature building to protest the sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec. There were a LOT of people there. Some estimate that the crowd swelled to almost 2000 at one point, but I would conservatively guess that there were about 400 actively in [...]

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Cranky Woman Writes her MLA

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Hopefully this does not escalate into letters to the editorial section of my local newspaper. I don’t even read my local newspaper…*grumble*

To: greg.byrne@gnb.ca
Good Day Mr Byrne;
I rarely take the time to write my politicians, though I know I should
more often. I do, however, feel the need to voice my objections to the
sale of NB Power [...]

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New Kiva Loan

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The gift that keeps on giving! Enough of my previous loans have been paid off to reloan $25 to a new entrepreneur. This time it goes to Hakik Boboeva from Tajikistan. At the time I’m writing this she just has $50 left to raise!
From her profile:
Hakik has had a small business processing and drying [...]

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New Kiva Loan!

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Enough of my previous loans at Kiva.org were repaid to lend to a new entrepreneur. Instead of having a face-off like last time I just picked someone at random. Well, it was kind of random. Moses Mworeki operates a restaurant called “New Lucky Hotel”. How could I not loan to a business with a name [...]

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