Comment on Possibly fake Kiva loansComments−brianleb12yLooks to me like there are just two women with children in Sierra Leone that run little shops that sell similar items.I'm sure Kiva has several templates that they use to post loans - you don't think they write each one by hand, do you?−SyneRyder12yActually, the Kiva field partners do write the profiles, and a team of 300+ volunteers translate them & edit for typos:http://www.kiva.org/about/editingprogramThere's a story of one of the Kiva Coordinators who photographs the borrowers and writes their loan descriptions here:http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/fellowsblog/2013/05/25/connectin...Of course, when there's lots of loans to process, some of the field partners do have a tendency to just fill-in-the-blank-template.
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Looks to me like there are just two women with children in Sierra Leone that run little shops that sell similar items.
I'm sure Kiva has several templates that they use to post loans - you don't think they write each one by hand, do you?
Actually, the Kiva field partners do write the profiles, and a team of 300+ volunteers translate them & edit for typos:
http://www.kiva.org/about/editingprogram
There's a story of one of the Kiva Coordinators who photographs the borrowers and writes their loan descriptions here:
http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/fellowsblog/2013/05/25/connectin...
Of course, when there's lots of loans to process, some of the field partners do have a tendency to just fill-in-the-blank-template.