I took note recently of the Nobel Peace Prize, the issue was Micro Loans. It is a good idea long overdue for those of us that feel the bureaucracies are inefficient and make our donations meaningless. Welcome to the modern era of international internet P2P loans and it is not even a Nigerian Spam Scam.

ascendalliance.org/page.php

www.grameenfoundation.org/welco...yunus/

And then there was tonight's Frontline segment on PBS about a new start up in international P2P microloans; www.kiva.org/ Kiva.

www.pbs.org/frontlinewor...01/index.html

Frontline
www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/

Watch the segment, share the idea and participate as you can. Perhaps this is a real way make the world better one person at a time and make banks compete to do the right thing.