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You'll want to read this until the end... there's an awesome giveaway/contest to enter from Better Life Bags!

Just thought I'd showcase some of the individuals that Better Life Bags has been able to help thanks to the people buying our custom bags.  All proceeds of every Better Life Bag transaction go towards low income entrepreneurs in developing countries.  Not only do you receive your fully customized bag in the mail, but also a picture and blurb of who your bag went to help.  Here are some of the lastest:

Meet Akuwa-die Baidoo.  She lives in Ghana and runs a grocery store.  She has one child and requested a loan to buy more groceries to sell in her store.  We helped fulfill her loan thanks to six bag orders.  She is in the process of paying us back, and as soon as she does, Better Life Bags will reloan the money to someone else.  So, your bag just keeps on giving forever!

Meet Agababa Aliyev.  He wanted a loan to purchase four more cows for his farm.  He has five children and works very hard to provide for them.  So far, Agababa has paid back 11% of his loan thanks to the five custom bag orders that went to help his purchase of cattle!

  And this adorable woman is Ndiawa Dieng from Senegal.  She dyes cloth, sews, and weaves for a living.  Isn't her outfit just amazing?!  Of course, I had to help someone who is a crafter just like me!  Proceeds from seven bag orders went to help fulfill the loan she requested.

Here is the cool thing.  Better Life Bags has been able to help six individuals and give $150 so far because of your interest in our bags.  And because we've chosen to give through Kiva, when the money is paid back, we can reloan it to someone else.  The loan that keeps on giving!  Here is our first Better Life Bag recipient that came from the second round of loans!  Fatou Aliou Faye.  She lives in Senegal.  She is 63, a widow, and childless.  She requested a loan to help fatten her cattle so she will be able to support herself and save a little money.

I just love Kiva.  I think it's the greatest idea ever.

So, in the spirit of giving, Better Life Bags is doing our first giveaway ever!!   

Your choice of anything at my etsy shop!!!! 

Here's how you win (each comment counts as a separate entry into the giveaway):

1. Follow this blog by clicking the "Follow" link to the right leave a comment saying you did.  (Already follow?  Leave a comment saying you do!)

2. Join our Facebook Fan Page and leave a separate comment saying you did.  (Already a fan?  Remind me in a comment!)

3. Go join the Better Life Bag Kiva team and leave another comment saying you did that, too!

4. Finally, go blog, tweet, or Facebook about how awesome Kiva is with a link to this blog and let me know you did so in a comment.  (Spread the LOVE!)

Get it?  Follow all four steps by leaving four comments and you've got yourself entered into the giveaway four times!  Do three = three entries, two = two entries, etc... We'll see how this first giveaway goes - humor me ok?  You might just win!

Giveaway closes at midnight (pacific time) on Jan 31st... so ENTER AWAY!  

(I will put all your names in a hat and pull the winner on Monday morning!  If you enter four times by doing all four "assignments" at the top of the page, you will have your name in the drawing FOUR times!)