Your Big Give

Help Create a Small Business

I signed up to be a lender for Kiva.org this morning. If you haven't heard, Kiva is an amazing organization that allows individuals to connect with the working poor in underdeveloped countries and offer them financial assistance in the form of a loan.

The first loan I made was to a woman in Pakistan by the name of Parween. [My loan] will allow her to pay off her husband's rickshaw loan and start seeing profits from his business. Down the road, she would like to take some of the rickshaw profits and open up a small market in town with her son.

With [this organization] you're not just giving, you're potentially helping someone to create a new life for themselves.
--Dustin

Use Your Skills

I believe each one of us can help strangers in our own way. It can be the sharing of a smile to someone you pass on the street or in a store. Maybe a "hello," "good morning," or "beautiful day." We never know how one of our actions will affect the other person.

My wife and I have been helping a charity in Thornton, Arkansas called Cayce's Charity. It is small, but everything we give goes to the needy. We try to make at least three trips a year to bring a trailer full of collected items.

Last year I traveled to Haiti to do some work on an electrical generator at an orphanage for girls. It was a very blessed experience.

I believe that we need to keep an open mind as to what we are being called to do. It takes many spokes for a wheel to rotate smoothly.
--GhostRider67