August 30th, 2008 — , Brendan McBride, Fundación para la Vivienda Progresiva (FVP), KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), LAC (Latin America & the Caribbean), housing microfinance, mexico, progressive housing from brendan11 @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I promised a long time ago to write about housing in Nuevo Laredo.
So I will exercise self-control and delay the gratification of writing about my recent outing to a lucha libre pro wrestling extravaganza. I will write instead about how housing gets built here in Nuevo Laredo – more of a sweaty struggle than the [...]
Continue reading → Progressive housing 101, or, an intro to why housing microfinance matters
August 14th, 2008 — , KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Nuevo Laredo, border from brendan11 @ Kiva Stories from the Field
The border by foot
There are two bridges that cross the river between Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, called Bridge One and Bridge Two. They have other names, if you look at the signs more closely, something like Bridge of Fraternity and Solidarity or International Friendship Bridge. But everyone here seems to refer to them by their [...]
July 15th, 2008 — , Brendan McBride, Fundación para la Vivienda Progresiva (FVP), KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Nuevo Laredo, banks, mexico, mud from brendan11 @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Two weeks have passed since I started work at Fundación Para La Vivienda Progresiva, or Foundation for Progressive Housing. I am still very much in absorption mode, so for now I will rely on broad strokes to paint the picture of what FVP is all about.
The organization is located right across the border from the [...]
July 2nd, 2008 — , KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kiva, Nuevo Laredo, Texas, border, mexico from brendan11 @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
This is my first blog entry. Many Kiva Fellow arrival tales involve foreign airports, sweaty travels across long stretches of rural countryside, and the onset of intercontinental jetlag. In contrast, I am probably the first fellow who arrived at his placement by Greyhound bus.
I write you from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, across the border from [...]
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