Good Causes - Kiva
It has always been important to us to celebrate the contributions of women. Since 2017, we have made many minifigures for International Women’s Day (IWD), creating little minifig tributes to awesome women from history and from the modern day.
In 2020, we chose to support Kiva, an international lending organisation that empowers women entrepreneurs and students across the globe. We donated portion of our sales from our International Women's Day minifigure range as interest-free loans that cycle back to fund future borrowers.
To date, we've supported over 200 projects worldwide, helping women start businesses, expand enterprises, and access education. The women we supported in the early days were:
- Eleni in Tonga who has a weaving business
- Sifah in Uganda who works as a farmer
- Vosjava in Albania who is growing cherry orchards
- Rasmata in Burkina Faso who sells cosmetics and 'pagnes' (the colorful wax cloth of western Africa)
- Zamyra in Tajikistan who needed a loan for higher education
- Gladys in Kenya who needed a loan for her children’s education
- The female chief executive of Techno-Hill in Myanmar - a renewable energy company
- Las Señoras Bonitas Group in Nicaragua who needed a loan to buy fruits and vegetables for one of their businesses
- Mujeres Trabajadoras Group - a group of women in Paraguay, including Florencia who needed a loan to buy products for her hair salon
If you’d like to find out more about Kiva, take a look at this link.
And if you’d like to buy a minifig from our inspirational women range, you can find them on our website here. We currently donate the funds raised from the sales of these minifigs to Chrysalis Youth Empowerment Network.
