What I Did for Blog Action Day 2008

Filed in: Charity and Donations, Weblog — October 15th, 2008

Today is the Blog Action Day 2008. The theme of the year is “Poverty”. For that, I joined Kiva and made a few loans.

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

Kiva helps people to fish rather than giving them the fish. The loaner do NOT get any interest but the biggest profit is that you changed a life by micro-lending.

I joined Kiva since 2007 but never been an active loaner before Oct 2008. Shame on me!

Blog Action Day suggested that bloggers donate their earning of the day for charity. I made 4 Kiva loans USD$25 each. Check out my lender page.

Kiva Piggy bank

Kiva PiggyBankBeside making a couple of loans, I also bought the Kiva piggy bank from the Kiva Store. The piggybank is cute, green in color, plastic. I will feed it with coins as the fund to lend on Kiva.

Join Kiva now and become a kind loaner. If you are Malaysians, please join the Kiva Malaysia Community.

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  • http://blogactionday.org/ Easton Ellsworth

    Join our Kiva team please (if you haven’t yet)! :)
    http://www.kiva.org/team/blogactionday

    Thanks for participating!

  • http://blogactionday.org Easton Ellsworth

    Join our Kiva team please (if you haven’t yet)! :)
    http://www.kiva.org/team/blogactionday

    Thanks for participating!

  • http://www.friedbeef.com/ Friedbeef

    Good to see you’re participating on BLog Action Day – So am I :)

    Hopefully thru you actions, more ppl will participate in Kiva.

  • http://www.friedbeef.com Friedbeef

    Good to see you’re participating on BLog Action Day – So am I :)

    Hopefully thru you actions, more ppl will participate in Kiva.

  • tawar

    You are a true Malaysian !
    Genereous to everbody except to fellow Malaysian
    You don’t even wish Hari Raya to a lot of your Malay Readers
    On the coming of Deepavali , I bet you won’t either !
    and yet You claim the first Professional blogger in Malaysia !

    You would support anything that help to boost your credibility Online but you do lack something my fellow Malaysian !

  • tawar

    You are a true Malaysian !
    Genereous to everbody except to fellow Malaysian
    You don’t even wish Hari Raya to a lot of your Malay Readers
    On the coming of Deepavali , I bet you won’t either !
    and yet You claim the first Professional blogger in Malaysia !

    You would support anything that help to boost your credibility Online but you do lack something my fellow Malaysian !

  • http://olimpiadetoki.blogspot.com/ OlimpiadeTOKI

    Nice blog, nice article, i will try this!

  • http://olimpiadetoki.blogspot.com OlimpiadeTOKI

    Nice blog, nice article, i will try this!

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  • http://www.pallab.net/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-five-ways-you-can-make-a-difference/ Pallab

    NIce initiative. I am also participating this year.

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    NIce initiative. I am also participating this year.

  • http://www.friedbeef.com/ Friedbeef

    @tawar: Ask any Malaysian blogger who has asked advice and help from LCF, and you’ll see that everyone will agree he is ever willing to assist.

    His actions speak louder than your words.

  • http://www.friedbeef.com Friedbeef

    @tawar: Ask any Malaysian blogger who has asked advice and help from LCF, and you’ll see that everyone will agree he is ever willing to assist.

    His actions speak louder than your words.

  • http://www.enveeteo.com/ envee

    hi , actually how did you know the event will been held at where or when ? You looks like quite less post this days … wish you good luck on your future .

  • http://www.enveeteo.com envee

    hi , actually how did you know the event will been held at where or when ? You looks like quite less post this days … wish you good luck on your future .

  • http://www.liciece.com/ liciece

    I did my first time donation in Kiva last month.I hope I can earn more money from blogging and share parts of them to help other people. :)

  • http://www.liciece.com liciece

    I did my first time donation in Kiva last month.I hope I can earn more money from blogging and share parts of them to help other people. :)

  • http://malaysia-digg.spshop.biz/ Digg – Malaysia Version

    Yes , it is true. Liew help me a few time to solve my question in Paypal.

  • http://malaysia-digg.spshop.biz Digg – Malaysia Version

    Yes , it is true. Liew help me a few time to solve my question in Paypal.

  • Walter

    I agree with tawar.

  • Walter

    I agree with tawar.

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