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How Kiva works
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. We celebrate and support people looking to create a better future for themselves, their families and their communities.
About Kiva
Ready to get started?
Join over 1.6 million lenders who have helped more than 2 million people around the world create opportunity for themselves!
Choose a borrower
Browse categories of borrowers- people looking to grow businesses, go to school, switch to clean energy and more.
Make a loan
Select a borrower who you connect with, and help fund a loan with as little as $25.
Repeat!
Use the repayment to support another borrower or withdraw your money.
Get repaid
Receive updates on your loans and see the dollars return to your Kiva account.
Kiva's World Refugee Fund
The World Refugee Fund was created in 2017 to grow and support Kiva's work with refugees, IDPs and host communities. Kiva expects to deploy $2.9 million in loans to refugees and IDPs and an additional $6M to host communities in countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey by the end of 2017
Thank you to our Founding Partners:
Additional Supporters:
The refugee crisis
★★★★
Kiva has Charity Navigator's
highest rating
86
Countries where Kiva works
1.6 million
People who've
made a loan on Kiva
97.0%
Loan repayment rate
Human Flow + Kiva
The film Human Flow, directed by renowned artist Ai Weiwei, poses a question that will define this century: Will our global society emerge from fear and isolation and choose a path of openness, freedom and respect for humanity?
You can choose that path today by making a loan to a refugee or IDP on Kiva, a nonprofit platform for crowdfunding loans to small-scale entrepreneurs around the world. You can help refugees start or grow businesses, access financial services and create jobs, as well as support and assist host communities.
Will you act today to help those most affected by the global refugee crisis?
You can learn more about Human Flow here.
