I just got the following e-mail from Kiva:

Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:10:19 -0700
To: timtrowbridge@hotmail.com
Subject: Kiva Update on Monica Wanja Mwangi: Loan has been disbursed
From: contactus@kiva.org

Dear Tim Trowbridge,

This is an update on Monica Wanja Mwangi:

Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Monica Wanja Mwangi by Ebony Foundation (Eb-F) in Kenya. We are excited to watch this business grow. Over the next 24 - 30 months, Ebony Foundation (Eb-F) will be collecting repayments from this entrepreneur and posting progress updates on the Kiva website.

Kiva very much appreciates your responses online. You can read and respond to this journal online at:
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=comment&id=18258&ent=22330

Some of our partners choose to write their journal entries in the local language in order to keep their overhead low. If this journal entry is in a foreign language, please feel free to use an online translator such as Altavista's Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com).

Thanks!

-- Kiva Staff

I admire people like Monica who can start their own businesses. It takes a lot of courage and perseverance.

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