Last spring, I lent 100 dollars to a woman named Helena Tawiah, whom I'd never met．Here's how it 1 :
My wife and I were 2 TV one night—it must have been Public Broadcasting Service—when we 3 a project called Kiva．We were impressed that the 4 had created a way to marry sophisticated（老练的）Internet capabilities to the 5 for capital at the grassroots level of developing countries．They do this by putting their 6 at the service of foundations working with small-scale（小规模） 7 business people．These foundations develop loan requests from the entrepreneurs（企业家）, upload them to Kiva, and 8 help make sure the loans get repaid．
