LDS Cooperative "one heart and one mind...with no poor among us"

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. It is non-profit and does not bring any interest back to the investor for a loan. However, of all the peer2peer microcredit sites it allows the lender to see the

http://www.kiva.org/app.php

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material.

Our hope at LDS Cooperative is that you get involved and help to empower our brothers and sisters in the developing world through a completely trustworthy and transparent scheme and that you will keep us up to date on our forum about the positive experiences you have had with Kiva. We hope to encourage all Latter Day Saints to get involved with KIVA and share the stories with us.

Here are Matt and Jessica, the founders of KIVA, who talk about how it developed from a "Marriage Problem". They are both faithfull Christians and talk about their history in creating the company and their vision for the future.

John Larson talks about how KIVA works and the wonders that it does for people around the world!

Meet the people who work at KIVA and hear their stories about how they got involved.