December 23rd, 2008 — , Alidé, All, Benin, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Togo from catch22sl @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I spent the weekend in Lomé, Togo with Abby Gray, another Kiva fellow at WAGES. Wages is basically like Alide in a few years: larger, and with a deeper relationship with Kiva. To get to Togo, I had to cross the border from Benin to Togo alone, which was just a little bit more harrowing [...]
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December 12th, 2008 — , Alidé, Benin, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from catch22sl @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Maurice, Alidé’s loan officer, and I ventured into neighborhoods even dirtier and more fly stricken to visit Alide’s clients. On Monday we visited the most intense location ever – the lake country. It reminded me a little of New Orleans. The houses were built on mud and some directly over the lake, the log [...]
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December 12th, 2008 — , Alidé, Benin, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from catch22sl @ Kiva Stories from the Field
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December 3rd, 2008 — , Alidé, Benin, Cotonou, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), africa from catch22sl @ Kiva Stories from the Field
After a few days, I felt mostly adjusted. I liked what was I doing and I had gotten used to fans only at night. I was sitting at Alide at 3pm at Friday when the electricity went out. The A/C stopped its whir, the computers had to be turned off to save battery. The water [...]
Online StoresNovember 27th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from catch22sl @ Kiva Stories from the Field
“We thought you were a Muslim from Togo,” the Director of Alidé told me on the way out of the Benin airport.
“Pardon?” I asked, wondering if I had heard correctly.
“You see,” he explained, “Lawson is a common Togolese name, even sometimes a Beninese one, and in West Africa Sarah is usually a Muslim name. So I [...]
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