Maybe you've heard of it?

www.Kiva.org is a social change non-profit that empowers individuals with internet access and a paypal account with the capacity to microfinance directly to borrowers in the developing world through no-interest loans. It's the same basic principles of microfinance that Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

After easily raising over $450 online for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through the elementary school where I have been a teacher's aid through AmeriCorps *NCCC, I was on a high. Not long after, I spoke with my sister's boyfriend (who also happens to be an Adam) and he reminded me about a site that we had talked about before, but that I had since forgotten - www.Kiva.org.

So, here I am back from YP4. After a few weeks delay of getting my ish together I'm working towards getting it all done.

As of this second I'm:

Trying to kick off my blue print

Planning a volunteer trip to New Orleans

Trying to start a microfinancing club

and

Trying desperartly hard to get the contact information for Kofi Annan so he can come to my school for a lecture on the situations in Darfur and Northern Uganda.

So...........

Maybe I'm the only one, but does it seem as though some of us in the progressive community are trying to do it all?

I mean if you really think about it the progressive cause champions so many different areas of human rights; and if you're a humanitarian then you probably have an arm (or leg....or any other appendage for that matter) in every pot thats brewing for social change.

So I guess the question is how do we "triangle-arrow-circle" (one time for the YP4 staff) our way to a world in which we don't have to "triangle-arrow-circle" anymore?