Thank you, TLM lenders!
27 July 2009 at 00:19 cissy 5 comments
Last week I was able to meet some Kiva clients while doing borrower verifications. Shanty, one of the Kiva Coordinators, and I decided to print out their Kiva profiles and show them what the world had seen.
Although they get an explanation of what Kiva is when they sign the client waiver, many TLM clients have no knowledge of the internet. To see a printed out profile with their pictures, along with some of the faces of people who had loaned to them, was very exciting for these clients!
Fret Passu’s Group and Oliftataf 44-B Group handled the printouts as if they were gold and swatted away the children’s hands when they tried to touch it. Members of Sesawi B1 Group and Sesawi A2 Group excitedly pointed each other out in the profile pictures. We left the profiles with them and I know these will be treasured items.
When Fret Passu (pictured below, on right with mustache) saw his profile he said, “Even though I am sitting here in this dirty shirt, people all over the world know who I am!”
Members of Fret Passu’s Group and Oliftataf 44-B Group
Members of Sesawi B1 Group and Sesawi A2 Group
Thank you to all of the generous Kiva lenders who helped these people acquire their cattle loans!
Cissy DeLuca is working with Tanaoba Lais Manekat Foundation (TLM) in West Timor, Indonesia. Feel free to join our rapidly growing lending team and follow us on twitter!
Entry filed under: All, Indonesia, KF8 (Kiva Fellows 8th Class), Tanaoba Lais Manekat (TLM). Tags: cattle farming, Indonesia, Kiva borrowers, kupang, livestock, microcredit, microfinance, TLM, west timor.
1. Jan & John | 11 September 2009 at 16:43
I missed this blog while on summer vacation. This is so exciting because I recognized the name of the Sesawi B1 group and we are lenders to them. It is so cool to know that I have their photo here and they have ours in their hands. That makes our world one step smaller and friendlier. Thanks, Cissy. jan
2. Unilove | 28 July 2009 at 21:16
Now the borrowers know 40 lenders think they deserve loans, and can see their pics…
Kiva and all our roles are such an interesting paradigm…
Unilove
3. marydear | 28 July 2009 at 12:13
This really made me smile! Thanks you!
4. Zev | 27 July 2009 at 21:59
Way to push transparency, Cissy!
5. David Oglaza | 27 July 2009 at 06:52
Maybe the loan officers should carry a sample of printed out loan profiles to show existing and new clients so they know what they look like?!