My Single Mom Life

I'm a huge fan of the new Purex 3-in-1 laundry detergent/fabric softener/anti-static laundry sheets, they make doing laundry so super easy, and they smell incredible.
They work just as well as the liquid detergents in my opinion, and I like them so much, I picked up 2 of the refill packages when I went shopping last night.
I like that I can just grab a laundry sheet, toss it in the washer with the clothes, and then just toss the clothes and the sheet into the dryer.
I don't have to add any liquid fabric softener to the dispenser in the washing machine, I don't have to throw any fabric softener sheets into the dryer either, just 1 easy step for clean and great smelling clothes.

Now Purex 3-in-1 laundry detergent has teamed up with Kiva to create the Purex Changes Lives Program.
It is so simple to help change someone's life!
Kiva, Purex 3-in-1, and YOU, will help moms around the world who are struggling to provide for their families.
When you submit the bar code from the back of your 20-count starter kit or 24-count refill pack of Purex Complete 3-in-1 Laundry Sheets, Purex will contribute $1 to the mom entrepreneur of your choice, allowing you to make a difference in the developing world and help empower a mom to lift her family out of poverty.
See?
Easy!
I bought the two 24 count refill kits yesterday, so that's $2 that will be contributed to the mom of my choice.

When you go to the site, you can choose how you want to help by sector, that means to see the moms by what they need to raise their family out of poverty.
The sectors are things like agriculture, clothing, food, retail, arts, housing, construction, and more.
After choosing a sector, you then click on the dots and read the mom's description of what she needs the loan for.
For example, they may need the supplies and cookware to make food items to sell, which will then be turned around to continue buying the ingredients to keep making food to sell, and enough money to support her family.
Or the mom may need the loan to buy fabric and a sewing machine to make sarongs to sell, which turns around and buys more fabric, thread, and other supplies, and supports her family.
Each dot represents a mom, her loan need, and the amount she needs to borrow.
I saw loans as small as $75, and loans as high as $525, but I didn't look at every single loan in every single category yet.

Right now, I have 2 refill packages, so that's $2 to loan to a mom, so I need to spend some time going through the loan requests, find one that just feels right to me, and then enter the bar codes from my packages, and the $2 will go to her loan request pool.
Once the mom receives the full amount of her loan request, Kiva helps fulfill her loan needs so that she can begin her business and support her family.

Purex is also offering coupons to help you help a mom.
If you go to the site now, even if you don't have a bar code right now but you found a mom you want to help, you can click on the "Haven't bought the product yet?" text link, fill out the form, and Purex will send you a coupon so that you can go buy Purex 3-in-1 laundry sheets, and then go back to the site to enter your bar code to help that mom.
Just remember her sector and name, jot it down somewhere, and also spread the word so that more moms can get the loans they need to support their families.

I really love it when companies give back in a way that can make us all feel good, it's just a nice feeling to know that a few simple clicks after purchasing a product I use anyway, with a coupon they sent me, will help a struggling mom take control and support herself and her family to get out of poverty.
As soon as the Purex Insiders sent me the email, I got a huge smile on my face, I immediately felt good, this is something that I can easily do to help someone else.