Engage in person-to-person justice via Kiva & LaborFair

Listening to the KIVA leader talk on NPR/KQED's The Foum last Friday I was so inspired by the discussion of how individuals anywhere in the world can directly lend to others to enable them to launch a venture. I called in to tell them about another person-to-person,social venture, also based in S.F (as is Kiva, a part of our zaadz community) named LaborFair.com http://www.laborfair.com LaborFair, an online referral community, supports the working poor in moving up the economic ladder. And it, too, happens through a one-to-one, mutually beneficial way that, as mentioned on The Forum, sidesteps the usual charity "Benefactor/Supplicant" relationship. Vai LaborFair, workers can post worker profiles, photos and references, then enjoy direct, online connection with ready-to-hire people. Workers get to build their reputation by attracting positive reviews at LaborFair when they do a good job. Socially conscious consumers (like the people here at zaadz) can find and contact reliable help fast. Plus they get the satisfaction of knowing that people who work for them get to keep all of their pay (by not working through an agency) and by spending less time and money on advertising or blanketing a neighborhood with flyers. Think of LaborFair.com as an Ebay for household services with a fair trade component. If you live in the S.F. Bay Area you can experience a "double good" right now. Need your home cleaned, garden readied for Spring, errands done or fence repaired? Help yourself to more free time and support competent workers to creating a better life for themselves. Then come back here - please! - and share your experience with me. My friend and the remarkable woman who co-founded LaborFair.com are eager to hear from you. After all, isn't that what zaadz is all about? - Kare P.S.. As the street sign advises, "Walk with the light"