The other day I was making a Kiva loan, and since we had been learning about Malala, the most recent Nobel Peace prize winner,  I was thinking about women’s freedom and rights. This made me decide to make a loan to a woman in Pakistan.

The first loan I was looking at was to a young woman in Pakistan that was selling scrap metal.  I looked at all her info, and after I scrolled down I saw something fishy. The money was not going to the woman, it was going to her husband. Mr. Ferriter told me I could make the loan but I decided not to because I wanted to help a women not her husband.

Here’s why this matters: Women are the ones that have restricted rights in Pakistan.

So after some thinking I scrolled down the list and found another woman where the money was actually going to her.  I decided to make that loan because the money was actually going to help her business of selling rice, and the husband was not getting the money.

Lesson learned:  Read the information before lending.

By:Libby B.