Actually, the Kiva field partners do write the profiles, and a team of 300+ volunteers translate them & edit for typos: http://www.kiva.org/about/editingprogra

Actually, the Kiva field partners do write the profiles, and a team of 300+ volunteers translate them & edit for typos: http://www.kiva.org/about/editingprogram http://www.kiva.org/about/editingprogram There's a story of one of the Kiva Coordinators who photographs the borrowers and writes their loan descriptions here: http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/fellowsblog/2013/05/25/connecting-lenders-and-borrowers-memory-kiva-coordinator-extraordinaire http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/fellowsblog/2013/05/25/connectin... Of course, when there's lots of loans to process, some of the field partners do have a tendency to just fill-in-the-blank-template.