In the United States, my home country, our motto as of late has been change. I have been working at the Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN) in Ghana for almost two months now, and I am just in time to witness some monumental policy changes of its own that will redefine the way CRAN does [...]
Time for a change
December 12th, 2008 — , CRAN, Cassie DeFillipo, Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN), Ghana, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from cdefillipo @ Kiva Stories from the Field
The art and science of communication
November 26th, 2008 — , CRAN, Cassie DeFillipo, Ghana, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from cdefillipo @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Language is said to be the thing that separates man from animal. Oliver Wendell Holmes said it is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. It is also the way in which we can most easily communicate our deepest thoughts and desires with another. It is [...]
Related Websites- Books and language Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. Jesse Lee Bennett The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms......
Voting for Peace
November 12th, 2008 — , Cassie DeFillipo, Christian Rural Aid Network, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kiva from cdefillipo @ Kiva Stories from the Field
What does an African country do in the aftermath of election violence in its neighbors, including Kenya and Zimbabwe? In the case of Ghana, about to hold its presidential elections in December, it takes the mere thought of election violence very seriously and starts a country-wide campaign against it.
Africa is a very big place, [...]
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- Vote! The US election I woke this morning thinking that it's a great privilege to live in a country where one can vote, male and female. There are still dictatorships in the world and places where women cannot vote. Imagine, that not so very long ago women could not vote in the US! I......
A Party and a Funeral
November 3rd, 2008 — , CRAN, Cassie DeFillipo, Christian Rural Aid Network (CRAN), Ghana, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from cdefillipo @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I take a break from my normal broadcasting about microfinance to discuss a special event. This weekend I had an invitation to attend a funeral a couple hours away in a part of the country I have never been to. I was invited by my friend and co-worker Lawrence, but I live with Lawrence’s mother’s [...]
Ode to Veronica
October 17th, 2008 — , CRAN, Cassie DeFillipo, Christian Rural Aid Network, Ghana, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class) from cdefillipo @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Veronica was more than just the small provisions shop owner across the street from where I used to live in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. She was more than just a woman full of life and smiles who I would often visit with on my way home from work. She was a friend, one I [...]
Allow me to introduce myself
September 18th, 2008 — , Cassie DeFillipo, Uncategorized from cdefillipo @ Kiva Stories from the Field
My name is Cassie DeFillipo, and I am one of the new Kiva Fellows currently training in San Francisco and preparing to head out into the field to serve as a liason for Kiva and its microfinance institutions in Africa. I will be spending my first three months at CRAN (Christian Rural Aid Network) on [...]
