Go Game for Good: Saturday Night Kiva!!!

To be precise, it was more like a Saturday afternoon. But it was certainly a smoking hot, disco ball-glittering, early John Travolta suaveness, flashing dance floor kind of extravaganza when we put a Go Game together in support of Kiva this weekend.





For those of you who don't know, you need to know about Kiva. In their words, 'Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.' But an even better way to learn about Kiva is to read our friend Kieran's short blog post about Kiva and watch his even more amazing video. Kieran was a Kiva Fellow who recently returned to London from Cambodia and helped us organise the game. Thanks dude!

We had a seriously kickass group of players come together in the Oxford Circus area for an afternoon of shenanigans. To make their experience even better, we had an incredible cast of actresses sprinkled around the game zone causing all sorts of Saturday afternoon trouble. Check out Bessie the Mad Cow who had quite a difficult day:





We hear the teams also had a lot of fun with the bride, pirate, chat-up fairy and naughty wizard, but we can't share all their secrets.

Now Kiva does a lot of work to assess the borrowers applying for Kiva loans and making sure they have a viable business model. Just for fun, we did a creative mission where teams had to come up with the WORST possible idea for a business to apply for a Kiva loan. Here, Team FoxForce Five shows off their ingenuity without even having to humiliate or endanger themselves in the photo! Would you want to send your kids here? Not so much..



On the other hand, the team members from Thank You Mr. Moussaka are no strangers to public humiliation and disregard for personal safety. Attention Health and Safety Association: No Go Game players were harmed during the taking of this photo. We promise.



This ridiculously creative team also submitted a phenomenal historical ballet on the Evolution of Man. We'd show it but there's just...not quite enough clothing involved:)

Thanks to everyone for putting so much creativity and energy towards supporting Kiva! We raised over £600 (almost exactly $1000!) for the Kiva Fellows Program! And one of our players will soon be heading off to San Francisco as one of the newest Kiva fellows. Good luck, Nicki!

If you're interested in lending to Kiva, we'd love for you to join our Lending Team. And check out The Movie Game in support of Kiva that happened back in San Francisco!

Check back here for more info on the next Go Game for Good, coming soon!