大学生进入小额信贷业(2/2)

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学生小额信贷组织以零利率或低利率小额针对性贷款帮助当地困难居民。
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Grinnell
Kiva.org
Social Entrepreneurs
SEG
Iowa
Jeff Raderstrong
Mark Root-Wiley
zero-percent
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翻译: jushua   
校对: 静xing
组长: 澈底
答疑: ldzh43The Saturday-night Grinnell tradition of missing a meal to help others enabled the group to make loans through the international microfinance organization, Kiva.org. The Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell - SEG - was launched.
Later, SEG moved toward making loans directly to international partners. But as time passed, the group started helping people in Iowa. Jeff Raderstrong remembers how that developed.
"It sort of really quickly became clear that there was a lot that we could do in the community, in the Grinnell community. Because, you know, the town itself, you know, there is some wealth but there is a lot of poverty, and there is a lot of rural poverty."
Mark Root-Wiley was another early member of SEG. He says the group recognized that small targeted loans at zero-percent or low interest could help local residents. SEG money has helped people make car payments so they can get to their jobs. It also helped patients in need of temporary housing near the medical center where they receive treatment.格林奈尔有个传统，每周六晚他们都会利用晚餐时间去帮助他人。这一传统使他们得到了国际小额贷款组织Kiva.org的贷款。格林奈尔社会企业家组织（SEG）由此成立。
  
之后，SEG直接向国际合作伙伴发放贷款。但是随着时间的推移，他们开始帮助爱荷华州的居民。Jeff Raderstrong回忆了其发展过程。
“很快我们意识到，我们能为格林奈尔社区能做很多事情。因为这个镇有一些富人，但是穷人也不少，而且很多是农村的贫困人口。”
Mark Root-Wiley是SEG另一早期成员。他指出，组织意识到零利率或低利率的小额信贷能帮助本地居民。SEG的资金帮助人们买车，使他们能够开车去上班。它还为病人提供了临时性的住处，紧邻他们接受治疗的医疗中心。