I am thrilled today to have provided a Kiva Zip Loan directly to a new body care business using Arctic botanicals, www.ArXoticA.com . Support ArXotica by making a purchase online, or by lending just $25! https://zip.kiva.org/loans/1457 When you lend $25, we both get an extra $25 to lend! http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/tracey7338

ArXotica hopes to act as an agent of change to improve the quality of life and provide opportunities for our people, so they no longer have to leave their homeland to find work. ArXotica strives to produce products without compromising the integrity of our isolated culture and our remote, resource-rich land.

ArXotica is owned and operated by Alaska Native triplets Michelle, Amy and Cika Sparck, who are proud members of the Qissunamiut tribe in Western Alaska.

The trio started the line using seed-money from the Alaska Federation of Natives Alaska Marketplace, a contest that encourages the creation of new business in “off-the-grid” areas of Alaska.

The Sparck sisters’ goal is to grow a subsistence-compatible business that will change the face of the economy in Western Alaska, and possibly other Arctic countries.

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I've also made a loan to the Solano Group of women in Nicaragua to buy food ingredients to sell tortillas and Nicaraguan tamales, and other supplies for sale.

I loaned Nandintsetseg and Enkhtuya of Mongolia money to insulate her family home and they are paying the loan back into the pot.

In the past I helped the S N Jose Group of women set up a community bank in Bolivia and
Mohammad to restock his General Store in Palestine, and they paid it forward...

Please lend just $25, and we'll both get an extra $25 to lend! http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/tracey7338