Charity Update

brightfive supported two charities in 2008 – Kiva and the Cake Software Foundation.

Kiva is a not-for-profit social venture which allows businesses and individuals to lend to specific entrepreneurs in poor or developing world countries.

In 2008 brightfive lent money to two individuals, Komla Azi and Adewole Bisola. Komla lives in Togo and is a motor mechanic – the money lent to him enabled him to buy important tools for his business. Adewole lives in Nigeria and is a produces Nylon for the local community – the money lent to her enabled her to buy more raw materials and grow her business.

Both Komla and Adewole have been making their loan repayments on time, enabling us to continue to lend to other entrepreneurs.

We are currently deciding where our money will have the most impact and which business to lend to next. For more information on Kiva visit www.kiva.org.

The Cake Software Foundation is a not-for-profit software organisation behind Cake PHP, the programming language we use for the majority of our web applications.

We donated money to Cake Software Foundation to help them continue to develop CakePHP and support its users.