December 20th, 2008 — , All, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), christmas, honduras, prisma from Sierra Visher @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Christmas in Honduras sunny and delicious. Christmas parties are everywhere, and come with very royally dressed women and scantily dressed girls. Office beauty pageants. The days are a warm 80 degrees, toasty not humid. I’m eating Tres Leches cake like my heart is made of iron, not soft, susceptible tissue.
I can’t get enough of the [...]
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December 15th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), honduras, prisma, svisher from Sierra Visher @ Kiva Stories from the Field
On December 4th, I had the wonderful opportunity to accompany Prisma employees to the Premio Impulso Microempresarial 2008.
This was an event put on by a Honduran Magazine called Micro Empresas & Finanzas that seeks to unify and inform the microfinance sector here in Honduras. Prisma was a recipient of the Premio Impuslo Microempresarial, which recognizes [...]
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December 8th, 2008 — , All, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Prisma Microfinance, honduras, prisma, svisher from Sierra Visher @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I’m floored by the magical connections we can make through technology. Some people say technology is flattening the world, shrinking the space, and homogenizing our cultures. I appreciate the argument, and do see that the internet is a democratic space, which in a sense, flattens our difference. And yes, technology can shrink space. But the [...]
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November 29th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), honduras, svisher from Sierra Visher @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I am sitting quietly in the cool, green room of a family operated hostel called Dos Molinos in San Pedro Sula. Shortly I will leave for a long bus ride to Tegucigalpa where I meet up with Prisma staff who will show me to my new home.
As I prepare for Monday, when I want to [...]
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