Kiva started as an experiment after Stanford Business School students Matt and Jessica Flannery traveled to East Africa to review projects for the microlender Village Enterprise Fund. What started as an experiment is now attracting lot of attention from global media.

The concept is fairly simple - leveraging the power of Internet.

One of things Pumba students could do as a project is tie-up Indian NGOs in similar activities as partners to Kiva.

This could be social project done by students on campus.

Muhammed Yunus got a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in Microcredit for the poor in Bangladesh.

What is Microcredit ?