December 17th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea (AMK), Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class) from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
In Cambodia there is a popular song called Tov Dondung Kon Key by Khemarak Sereymon. The song is VERY catchy and we hear it EVERYWHERE. The best part of the song is the story. It’s about a guy who has this crush on a girl who he meets at the market. When he goes with [...]
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December 4th, 2008 — , AMK, Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea (AMK), Asia & the Pacific, CREDIT, a partner of World Relief, Cambodia, Hattha Kaksekar Limited, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kiva, MAXIMA Mikroheranhvatho Co., Ltd., Maxima, PA2, Sanjaya Punyasena, credit, hkl, microfinance, transparency from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
As many of you Kiva lenders have noticed, Kiva recently upgraded the administration system that Field Partners use to post businesses and report repayments. The partner administration system, aka PA2, is where Field Partners post businesses onto Kiva and report on the status of each loan. This was a major redesign of the site and [...]
Online StoresNovember 24th, 2008 — , AMK, Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea (AMK), Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, GPS, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kiva, Sanjaya Punyasena, Technology, microfinance from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
In my last post, I talked about visiting a client with Phanith, the AMK Kiva coordinator. The client officer (a.k.a. loan officer) was not available to take us, so we relied on a hand written map that got us lost many, many times. We had to ask almost every villager we saw, before we finally [...]
Online StoresOctober 20th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class) from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Last Wednesday Phanith, the AMK Kiva coordiantor, and I were very eager to head out into the field the next day to ask two Kiva entrepreneurs, the Siphat Yang Village Bank and the Chon Erm Village Bank Group, questions that I had gathered from lenders. Unfortunately, when we called the loan officer she told us [...]
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October 12th, 2008 — , Uncategorized from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Well now is your chance!!!
I will be visiting the Siphat Yang Village Bank and the Chon Erm Village Bank Group this Thursday. If you want me to ask the members of the village bank a question, send me an email with your question: sanjaya.punyasena AT fellows.kiva.org
This is the first time I’m trying this, so I [...]
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October 6th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class) from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
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August 26th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Sanjaya Punyasena from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
AMK has the lowest average loan balance per borrower. According to MIXMarket, AMK’s average balance at the end of 2007 was $86 per borrower. To put that in perspective the second lowest was AMRET at $164, which is nearly 90% higher. HKL, Credit MFI, and Maxima (the other three Cambodian MFIs working with Kiva) have [...]
August 12th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Sanjaya Punyasena from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Stories from the Field
For the past few weeks I have been doing a lot of data entry. Panith, the AMK Kiva coordinator, and I have been going through all the Kiva business descriptions so that we could enter their account numbers into an excel worksheet. This will allow us to easily track payments of all the Kiva loans. [...]
Online StoresJuly 28th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Sanjaya Punyasena from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Part of the reason I signed up for the Kiva Fellowship was to see how microfinance actually works on the ground. You can read all the books on microfinance, but that couldn’t make up for never seeing it in action with your own eyes. After getting an understanding of AMK’s operations from their nice air-conditioned [...]
Related WebsitesJuly 21st, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Asia & the Pacific, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Sanjaya Punyasena from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
On Friday, Sophanith, Elena and I went to visit the Thea Chhin group, to do a journal on the group leader, Thea Chhin. The journey to Sala Khom Village was quite long. We left AMK’s central office in Phnom Penh early in the morning and the drive to the branch office in Kampong Chhnang [...]
Online StoresJuly 16th, 2008 — , Angkor Microfinance Kampuchea, Cambodia, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Sanjaya Punyasena from Sanjaya P @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
After a wonderful 25-hour journey from New York, I finally made it to Cambodia! My first order of business was to get my visa at the airport, but that turned out to be a breeze. I filled out a visa application and it was passed along a line of 8 Cambodian officials who were [...]
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