Christmas - a time for Kiva giving

In our culture and family, Christmas is a time of giving and being grateful for all we have.

Over the past two years, here at CIC, we have regularly given to KIVA, a micro financing website that lends to small business owners around the world.  Read about our first loan and how we crowd sourced where to lend it with our newsletter subscribers here.

Christmas 2013, we have again joined with Kiva to lend to two small businesses - this time in Samoa. You can join the more than a million people who have loaned money through Kiva here 

We are grateful for you.  For your reading and following our work over this past year and for all of you who work with us to build bridges of understanding across cultures.

And we wish you and your family joy, peace and happiness at this time.