I received word on Monday that one of my Kiva.Org loans had been paid off.Â? (For those not in the know, Kiva.Org allows you to lend as little as $25 to people in third-world countries to help them to start small businesses.Â? They partner with microlending institutions and they have a really high success rate.)

I am really proud of Hagigat Kurbanova and of her repaying the loan and I feel blessed that I was able to be a part of making it happen.

So… I had the choice of having my $25 investment returned to me or… I could re-lend it out again.Â? I totally chose to re-lend it and this is my new loan from that money.Â? (This person also needs another $175 lent to her at the time of me blogging to make her loan complete and I think there’s a 2 day deadline coming up for her, so she’d be a prime candidate if you want to get involved.)

I also have two other loans out: one for a dressmaker in Lebanon that is 25% repaid and another that I made today to a Lebanese grocer.