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Got a sad email from Kiva on the results of the recent political instability on entrepreneurs there. There’s no specific word on Christine Chepkorir Sang. I’m very grateful that our own Christine is safely back. All open loans to Africa are here.

We have recently completed auditing the riot’s impact on our clients and as of yesterday about 4,900 of our clients had been badly affected by the riots:

– About 1,532 of our clients were displaced and both their homes and business premises burnt down. This population is currently housed in church compounds and police stations.

– Another 2,479 clients had their business premises burnt down or looted leaving them with no source of income at all.

– 833 clients had their homes looted or burnt down and about 56 clients are missing and feared dead or critically injured.