Team Tia: A “Kiva” Loan Around the Globe

“Team Tia – Loan Around the Globe” is a Kiva lending team dedicated to Tia, a nine-year old girl living in Murcia, Spain. Tia has been diagnosed with several illnesses including dilated cardiomyopathy, Graves Basedow disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and congestive heart failure.

Tia is a strong girl with a passion for helping others and has enjoyed supporting Kiva entrepreneurs around the globe. Kiva lenders have been inspired by her story and last May, they created “Team Tia” to show their support for her by helping Kiva entrepreneurs. To date, “Team Tia” has 273 members and has made 1265 loans totaling $34,150. The Kiva community thanks Tia for her dedication to help alleviate poverty throughout the world and we are sending our very best wishes her way!

Original post @ www.kiva.org/blog/2010/02/01/team-tia-loan-around-globe.html

Send ClimbForCaptives to Higher Peaks with the Gore-Tex “Experience More Challenge”

Climb for Captives has been given an incredible opportunity to take our next climb to a whole new level, but we need your help to make it possible!

Thanks to the Gore-Tex Experience More Challenge, Climb for Captives has been selected as one of 6 finalists where the Grand Prize Winner receives $10,000.  Our dream is to use this prize to fund an epic climb outside the US, elevating our fight against human trafficking to a global scale.  To win, all we need to is to get more votes than the other five finalists… and that is where YOU come in.  If you are willing to vote for us, here’s what you need to do:

Step 1. Join the Gore-Tex Community

The competition is part of an online outdoor community and to be able to vote you have to be a member of the community, which means you have to sign up first.  Membership is FREE and there are no strings attached.

Step 2. Log in to the Experience More Challenge

Once you have created an account and are LOGGED IN, look for the “Experience More Challenge” and click “VOTE NOW”

Step 3. Vote for “Climb for Captives 2009“

That’s all that is needed!  Special thanks to PaulHassell.com for his amazing photography, and thanks to all our supporters and fellow abolitionists who are joining with us.  If you are ready to help us raise $10,000 and take Climb for Captives to a whole new level click HERE to sign up.

Sincere thanks,

The Climb for Captives Team

www.ClimbForCaptives.com