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Pay It Forward
One of the thing I vowed to do after earning my own paycheck is to put aside at least 5% of my gross salary for charity. At current salary rate, the amount is sufficient to buy me 3 and a half paperback books every month. Now, some people think that it’s outrageous for me to spare some cash for charity when I’m swimming in study debt myself. Sometimes I do wonder what was I thinking when I drafted my budget for July - Dec 2008.
Two emails arrived at my mailbox today, saying that two of my small microloan contribution have been disbursed. I was happy. Too happy, in fact. My small pocket money can be used by people; mainly women in another countries to lift themselves out of poverty. How amazing is that? We as lenders dont get any profit of course, and I dont really mind if they dont pay back anything.
It feels really good to help out sometimes. Even if it requires me to cut a latte or two, packing my own lunch and walk to/fro work once a week.
