My Lending Experience with Milaap

My experience of lending for the first time with Milaap – a crowd funding microfinance institution – was simply fabulous. The ease of the process, the smoothness of the website, and the stories of the borrowers everything just works well to be of the utmost convenience to the lender. You start off with registering yourself with Milaap through your facebook, Google+ or email id and instantly start lending. Once logged in you can straight away start lending by going through thousands of borrower profiles in order to choose the most appropriate person you want to lend your money to. If you feel particularly passionate about one issue or gender than that is also taken care off as you can filter borrowers on the basis of causes, urgency of funds required, gender and state.

In order to make my first lending at Milaap I chose an old veteran of handicrafts-making industry named Tejiben Bhyandarbhai Parmar. A mother of three children she was separated from her husband early in her marriage and left to look after three children on her own. She decided to work and joined a government organization of the arts working for twenty years with them. Today she is with Gramshree, an amazing organization that works for woman empowerment allowing them to be economically empowered and a catalyst for social change. Thereby, positively impacting their families and the community they live in. 

Tejiben is in need of money to successfully produce dresses, sarees, quilts, pillow cases and dupattas for an exhibition. Reading about her struggles, moved by her passion to continue her art and because of having a soft corner for handicraft artisans I decided to lend to Tejiben. Honestly it felt wonderful to be able to do this, to know that a small act of yours will make a huge difference in the life of someone so far away is reason enough to feel good about yourself and the existence of such platforms. This is necessary and Milaap is proving itself to be a change-maker like none other. If you wish to make a lot of change with lending a little visit the following link: https://milaap.org/