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Some while ago she put me on to this: It's wonderfully simple. They offer micro-loans to people all over the world. The amounts are absurdly small compared to what trades hands in our neck of the woods. Small but life-changing in the right place. So I put in 25 bucks to help out a Cambodian woman with a weaving business. I do lot of sewing and could relate to the labor she puts in to make fabric. This woman works her butt off for days on end no breaks doing things that would make me nuts. She also cooks cleans and takes care of her family. I couldn't do it. My mind cuts out just at the weaving alone never mind the rest. It is humbling. She needed seed money to buy supplies to expand her business that's all. It worked out to about 500.00 US. My donation teamed up with others and she got her loan. Today I found out what she's done with it and I am again humbled. I CANNOT imagine her life any more than she could imagine mine. It's likely we'd each find the other's impossible to get through should we end up on some kind of things in common: we're self-employed women making our way as best we can. I just have a bit more to share when it comes to profits. I don't expect to get that 25.00 back nor do I want it. When she pays off her loan. I'll just recycle it to another on the Kiva list. Read the story below count your blessings see if they add up to 25.00. Give up Cokes for a month or Starbucks for a week. Make a difference. Let me introduce you to Ramsey Tha an amazing friend I've never met. Dear Pat Elrod. This is an update on Handicraft and selling soft drinks written by Darin Greyerbiehl: This entrepreneur is funded by a Kiva loan administered by Maxima Mikroheranhvatho Co.. Ltd here in Cambodia. Rasmey lives on an island in the Mekong River north of Phnom Penh. Her loan is being paid off on schedule. With the loan Rasmey bought silk and other weaving supplies. Before receiving the loan she traded her finished goods to a middleman/vendor in exchange for raw materials. She had no leverage to bargain on pricing because she had no other options. Now she's able to cut her costs by traveling to Phnom Penh buying at one of the large markets - a trip she makes about once every three months. Rasmey has had two or three loans with Maxima before getting the current one. With the prior loan she bought a motorcycle which she in turn sold to buy the small wooden house in which she lives with her husband their two year old son. They have another child on the way. We met under her house which is typical in this area. Houses are raised on pilings or piers to escape the worst of the flooding of the Mekong River which forms the rear border of her yard. The area beneath the house serves as an all-purpose outdoor living/working space. Rasmey's house like most others here shelters a large loom. She invited the Maxima loan officer and me to sit on a teak and bamboo platform next to her loom where she worked. The Khmer people seem to have an extra gene for beautiful smiles but I've experienced little to prepare me for the warmth that radiated from Rasmey's face when the loan officer explained that we were there to interview her about her loan. It takes Rasmey about two days to complete one finished piece of woven cloth. She sells this to a middleman for about $8 (US). Occasionally foreign tourists come to the island and she can sell a piece for as much as $14. Her demonstration of the complicated operation of the loom makes it difficult to believe that $8 is the gross revenue for one piece. The fixed costs per piece average between $5 and $6. She says she can finish about ten pieces per month. She hopes to continue with her weaving so she can save enough to build a newer house. She also hopes to send her son to school so he can one day become a doctor. *******Wow. This is impossibly cool. I'm helping another woman with a dream. It's right out of Teresa Eudocia Quispe Quispe & her husband have a crafts business in Peru. They make beautiful ceramic pieces and wholesale them in Lima. They want to expand their business to be able to export to a wider market providing a better living for themselves and their four children. I respect artists and hey--check out Teresa's great hat! Talent AND style. Y'can't beat that combo! Thanks for bringing this back to mind. I heard of it a while back when I didn't have the money to spare but now that I'm better financial circumstances it's great to see how big a difference my little extra can make. Oh and thanks for having the drawing for My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon. I'm going to need the mental break of short stories now that NaNoWriMo has started and my FLE's are coming up for my February release. Winnng the drawing wasn't luck it was divine intervention to save my sanity this month. :D~X This is mind boggling. I loaned 25.00 to Teresa E. The loan went from 18% to 22% complete. In ten minutes MORE people loaned to her. It went from 22% to 41% complete. Sure wish I could buy one of her ceramic pieces!Wish I could buy some silk from Ramsey Tha. This is the next best thing.

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Remember Leah? If you can recall from “My schedule of Bible Stories” she was the first woman to change state famous for being aesthetically disadvantaged. Her case was so sorry even her father traded her off in a BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free). Though you have to understand the old man was being reasonable. No one would work his ass off for seven years for a Leah if he had a choice. I had left Sunday school before I learnt the other story about Leah. Hers is also the story of a woman who ignored her outward limitations to cerebrate on her God given natural endowment. This Dame was productive. She found out early enough that her womb was fertile and so she worked it. She didn’t worry anymore that Jacob fancied her sister Rachel more than her or that Rachel was n times prettier. She worked it and worked it doing what she was good at…Which by the way is the secret of sustainable success. Leah is the muse for the new addition to. . Let me go to 12 lies and see if I can put 2 and 2 together... How are you? Thanks for the insight you shared at my blog. Your biting humor is classic! I love it! Proudly Naija. Confidently Liberal and Consistently Creative. Thinking Global but Acting Human. And Believing Passionately (that) it is Impossible to fail...

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Remember Leah? If you can recall from “My schedule of Bible Stories” she was the first woman to become famous for being aesthetically disadvantaged. Her inspect was so sorry even her father traded her off in a BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free). Though you have to understand the old man was being reasonable. No one would work his ass off for seven years for a Leah if he had a choice. I had left Sunday school before I learnt the other story about Leah. Hers is also the story of a woman who ignored her outward limitations to cerebrate on her God given natural endowment. This Dame was productive. She found out early enough that her womb was fertile and so she worked it. She didn’t worry anymore that Jacob fancied her sister Rachel more than her or that Rachel was n times prettier. She worked it and worked it doing what she was good at…Which by the way is the secret of sustainable success. Leah is the cerebrate for the new addition to. . Let me go to 12 lies and see if I can put 2 and 2 together... How are you? Thanks for the insight you shared at my blog. Your biting gratify is classic! I love it! Proudly Naija. Confidently Liberal and Consistently Creative. Thinking Global but Acting Human. And Believing Passionately (that) it is Impossible to disappoint...

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“It would,” Lilah volunteered ticking points off on her fingers. “If the killer was connected to the be of the inspect like say Dushay he wouldn’t want the whole hellhound thing coming out nobody would buy it. And anyway what reason would the dog have for being here in this house at all besides killing Wintermeyer? It’s not desire it’s going to go around looking for Scooby snacks or something. It’s gonna do its business and get out.”

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