{"id":2009,"date":"2012-02-15T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2012-02-15T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:45:35","slug":"library-auip-donates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/library-auip-donates\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: AUIP donates to Kiva organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an innovative request from one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/home\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">AUIP&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0 suppliers, Ziptrek Ecotours\u00a0 in Queenstown, <a title=\"Student Perspective: Student vs. leeches, who will\u00a0win?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a>, a Philippines farmer got the opportunity to grow his business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/ziptrekplatform.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2013\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/ziptrekplatform.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In January, a group of 32 students enrolled in the AUIP Sustainable Business program learned how<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ziptrek.com\/queenstown-new-zealand\/sustainability\/sustainability-scene\" target=\"_blank\"> Ziptrek<\/a>, a worldwide leader in zipline adventures, incorporates sustainability into their business practices. Instead of receiving payment for their efforts, Ziptrek asked <a title=\"Library: AUIP\u00a0donates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/\">AUIP<\/a> to make a donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiva<\/a>, a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Happy to oblige, AUIP chose to help a farmer in a country that, like New Zealand, has also recently been affected by earthquakes \u2013 the Philippines. AUIP contributed towards a loan of $475 to help a farmer and family-man named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/lend\/380691?_te=ty\" target=\"_blank\">Romeo<\/a> buy fertilizer and other farm supplies needed for his rice field. Romeo hopes that the profit he makes from the loan will help him with his children&#8217;s schooling and other family needs.<\/p>\n<p>As Romeo pays back his loan, the credit will be put back into AUIP&#8217;s account so it can be lent out to another worthy borrower. More information about making a donation to Kiva can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiva.org\/lend\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an innovative request from one of AUIP&#8217;s\u00a0 suppliers, Ziptrek Ecotours\u00a0 in Queenstown, New Zealand, a Philippines farmer got the opportunity to grow his business. In January, a group of 32 students enrolled in the AUIP Sustainable Business program learned how Ziptrek, a worldwide leader in zipline adventures, incorporates sustainability into their business practices. Instead of receiving payment for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-zealand","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}