Saturday, March 01, 2008

kiva poetry auction update

Remember this? So far we have 2 bids:

  • Andrew Mitchell weighed in with AU$100.
  • Lesser Kudu upped the ante to $150 for "hope". Not bad for someone with hooves (do they cause problems with the keyboard LK?) and funky stripes.

Come on - you can band together to get the cash remember? For the cost of a good meal for 4 people, those same 4 people can:

  • Contribute to the well-being of many human beings.
  • Influence the behaviour of one specific human being (for better or humorous).

What could be better? Post your bid now.



1 comment:

the vampire's dream said...

the hooves aren't that bad :-) i've learned to bite the nails off in any case :)

i love kiva... have contributed (albeit in small amounts) to a few businesses... ( http://www.kiva.org/lender/simran ) because i think the concept is just fantastic... if you like kiva... give www.myc4.com a look at well... they are also doing similar and wonderful work...

one thing i did with kiva a while ago is instead of investing directly, i started giving gift certificates to my friends that i think would be encouraged by this stuff... i'll never see that money back, but getting that money back was never the intention and hopefully the cert will kickstart them in a direction they want to be heading in anyway...

as for pictures of the lesser kudu, you just might find some at: ( http://flickr.com/photos/c0t0s0d0/sets/72157600233177510/ ) from my trip to kenya as part of an earthwatch expedition in may last year :-)
( http://www.earthwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=cdKLIPNpEoG&b=1339475&ct=4176961 ) ... next time you are in melbourne matt.. lunch is on me :-) perhaps jazzydee will join us too :-)