90 Days of Marriage

From wiki.jjhale.com

Thanks for coming

Thanks to everyone who came along on Saturday. It was lovely to see you all there. Liz and I had a great day and we hope that you did too.

We've made our Kiva loans now. You can follow them on our lender's page.

Joe and Liz

Wedding Photos

Photos of the wedding ceremony in San Francisco are available on-line now too! I've put them on my flickr page.

To view them just email me and I'll send you the link to them.

Gifts

If you would like to get us anything--although really, you don't need to--Liz and I would appreciate gift certificates for Kiva.org. We have all the kitchen supplies we need already, and it would mean a lot to us to be able to mark this new stage in our relationship by helping entrepreneurs in the developing world grow their businesses and achieve economic stability.

Click the link to buy Kiva gift certificates online. You will be asked to create an account with Kiva in order to purchase any certificates.

Use these details for the recipient:

• Joseph Hale
• joe@jjhale.com

We'll publish details of who we invest in and their progress on-line.

About Kiva (from their website)

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, and what effect it has on the people and institutions lending it, borrowing it, and managing it along the way. To do this, we are using the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one connections that were previously prohibitively expensive. Child sponsorship has always been a high overhead business. Kiva creates a similar interpersonal connection at much lower costs due to the instant, inexpensive nature of internet delivery. The individuals featured on our website are real people who need a loan and are waiting for socially-minded individuals like you to lend them money.