The vision Kiva sees, with a "Guatemalan woman making a loan to an entrepreneur in Detroit", might border on absurdity in the eyes of some.

危地马拉的妇女也可以为底特律的企业主提供贷款，“不过Kiva看到这种可能情景在某些人看来可能近乎荒谬。”

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Sometimes the heroic medical interventions he describes are futile: A desperately sick illegal immigrant a Guatemalan woman who arrived in the U.S. with a parasitic disease affecting her heart is given a heart transplant, but after the operation she dies anyway.

WSJ: Book Review: Twelve Patients