Anti-malaria pills + deet ? invincibility against malaria

December 8th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Sero Lease and Finance Ltd. (SELFINA), Tanzania  from tmchang @ Kiva Stories from the Field

I had been looking forward to going to the southern city of Mbeya even before I arrived in Tanzania. Mbeya is known for it’s cooler climate and lush vegetation. So when it turned out that SELFINA had branches in Mbeya and the surrounding areas and that journaling needed to implemented in those branches I enthusiastically [...]

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36 and single

December 8th, 2008 — , Add new tag, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Sero Lease and Finance Ltd. (SELFINA), Tanzania  from tmchang @ Kiva Stories from the Field

Rebeca walks into the SELFINA Mbeya branch with an air and a flair that is hard to describe.  She is here to make one of her monthly repayments.  As this is her third loan, so she knows the routine quite well. 
 
As she settles herself into the chair and rewraps herself in her colorful khangas [...]

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First Impressions

October 18th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Sero Lease and Finance Ltd. (SELFINA), Tanzania  from tmchang @ Kiva Stories from the Field

8 days and 4 continents later I find myself in Tanzania as Kiva’s newest fellow in the field.  Previously I was doing a 3.5 month work rotation in Australia, followed by a 1 week long whirlwind trip home to North America prior to disembarking to Africa via Europe.
 
I am here in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania [...]

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