Category: Help Others

Perspectives on Parkinson’s

By Kay McMahon | Published: 5 July 2010
On discovering that the prospective subject of a BE interview has Parkinson's Disease, Kay's spurred on to find out more about this condition and what it means for the sufferers and those close to them.
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British Expat Kiva team news: May 2010

By Kay McMahon | Published: 6 May 2010
The BE team has lent US$2,825 via Kiva to help people lift themselves out of poverty
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Kiva Update

By Kay McMahon | Published: 28 January 2009
Latest developments on the BE Kiva team, plus a great video about Kiva and how it works
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Kiva – give the world’s poor a leg up

By Kay McMahon | Published: 10 January 2009

If you’re living in a developing country, particularly if it’s a Least Developed Country or LDC, the chances are that you’ve heard of microcredit and the success it’s having in lifting people out of poverty.

For those who haven’t, the basic idea behind microcredit is that very poor people – who normally wouldn’t qualify for a bank loan – are able to borrow small amounts of money at affordable rates for business proposals designed to help them make a living. The


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