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New Kiva Loan: Nicola from Israel
Latest Posts / February 20, 2016

Click here to donate yourself Nicola is a former educator and the mother of four grown children. She decided to open her ‎own business selling jewelry and handbags in her village when it was time to retire. She ‎knew she and her husband could not live on their pensions, nor was she ready to just sit ‎at home.She decided to take business management courses at her local SBA and ‎take her unique style and taste to open her store. She gained a good customer base due ‎to the high-quality products. Now it is time to expand her products and refresh her store.‎Nicola decided to add new products to her store and needed this loan for a line of ‎household linens, sheets, towels and blankets, as well as a new, upgraded display ‎window, closets and shelving.‎Nicola wants to keep making sure she can provide a decent income and build a new ‎house, as her children have grown.‎ More information about this loanKIEDF targets some of the most marginalized groups and areas in Israel with its microfinance services, specifically working with Bedouins, Haredi women, and Israeli-Ethiopians. By contributing to this loan, you are supporting a borrower who otherwise would have very limited…

Tips for Novice Writers
Latest Posts / January 17, 2015

You Want to be a Writer? Learn Your Craft! Well, at least learn about your craft and what you can look forward to as you begin this adventure. And it will be an adventure, certainly. You will have smooth journeys, crooked paths, mountains to climb and deserts to traverse. You will stay in luxurious hotels and in flop houses (in your mind, of course); and you will enjoy every minute of it, or you aren’t really a writer! What follows are 10 important tips for new writers, but there are many more that may come from both successful authors and other novices like yourself. If you read through these, however, reflect on them a bit, and still you want to write, then you are probably ready! Hours and Hours: Yes, you must be willing to spend hours of time engaged in your craft. If you have another job, it means you will be sacrificing some other things – some social time, some television, and, when you are “on a roll,” laundry, cooking and cleaning! Be certain that you want to do this badly enough, or you will become resentful. And it won’t just be the initial writing, because that is…

Book Review: State of Failure by Jonathan Schanzer
5 Stars , Latest Posts , Non-Fiction / December 5, 2013

The author provides a good historical background of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and provides examples of how the leadership failed its people by not developing a political culture and infrastructure that could support startup state. While Mr. Schanzer does not absolve Israel of blame, he lays most of it at the feet of the United States and Europe who are, according to the narrative, major contributors to the failure.

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