Who is? Us. That's who. No matter how many times I bitch and moan I keep getting sucked into the non profit madness. Why? Because apparently my heart wants to keep making a difference even though my head is saying, 'stop the madness." And it doesn't help that Nick has taken the reigns fully and run with them. We just sit back and let him go. And go he has. Did you know that our very own Nicolas Victorin is being sworn in as the Mayor of Pignon on February 7th? Yes. It's true. Open Hand has opened (hey, didnt even plan for that but I'll go with it) many doors for him in his community. He's become much more well known and beat out 26 people to become the next Mayor.
Here we are 6 months after the first 25 loans were given and we had 100% pay back. *jaw drop*
So Nick has come up with a new strategy that will double our loans being given out without costing anything more than the first 25 loans. It's quite brilliant. So everyone pays 1/6th of their loan payment every month which enables us to within 6 months give out 5 more loans each month for a total of 50 loans out by the end of a six month period. Money constantly rotating. That ends up being 100 loans a year when we only had the money for 50 a year. How cool is that?
So in the next few weeks we will start again but with 25 new people. Fingers crossed they are upstanding Haitians like the first group so that we can continue the cycle.
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