Gaia!
Here's a question: what if money was more like love?What if the more you gave of it, the more you had? What if the more it circulated, the more it supported and empowered others? What if whenever you bought a gift, the money was returned to you multiplied?
Guess what? These don't need to be "what ifs." :)
This February, Gaia is again working with MicroPlace, an organization that enables loans to the working poor. You can make an investment in the name of someone dear to you (whether your spouse, a parent, a child, or anyone else you love), which will enable a loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world, who'll be able to use it to grow her business, and later, pay back the money.
And when you do, MicroPlace will send a delicious treat of Divine Chocolates (one of the first fairtrade chocolate companies in the world!) and a beautiful e-card to the recipient of your choice.
So your beloved will get a beautiful present. Someone on the other side of the world will have benefitted from the circulation of your money. And you, in the end, can earn a return on your investment.
There's still time to make the gift in time for Valentine's Day (if you order by the 9th the chocolates will arrive by the 14th... but don't forget that they've got only a limited number!), and still time to participate in (at least to my mind!) one of the miracles of our beautifullly interconnected, rich-with-love-and-wonder, filled-with-chocolate-and-opportunity, planet.
To changing the world and chocolate (covered) kisses,
