Anyone who has spent time in some of the more remote parts of Africa will probably shrug their shoulders at my observations. But as a first time visitor it’s hard not to feel like a bit of a celebrity, at least with the children. Wherever you go, kids stop and look. Sometimes they laugh or [...]
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September 24th, 2008 — , Cameroon, Ghape, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), africa from Yuan @ Kiva Stories from the Field
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September 11th, 2008 — , Cameroon, Ghape, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), africa from Yuan @ Kiva Stories from the Field
One of the most inspiring things I have seen in Cameroon is the progress made by many GHAPE borrowers over the years. GHAPE is the local NGO where I am working during my time as a Kiva Fellow in West Africa. Their aim, like many of the other hundreds of microfinance organisations around the world, [...]
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August 28th, 2008 — , Cameroon, Ghape, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Yuan Potts, africa from Yuan @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Squeezing people into taxis is par for the course in Cameroon. As cabs approach, you shout your destination to the driver and if you get the nod you hop in. If there are already three in the back, no matter, there’s room for one more. If there are two in the front, again, no problem: [...]
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August 21st, 2008 — , Cameroon, Ghape, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Yuan Potts from Yuan @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I am sitting in the modest headquarters of GHAPE in Bamenda, north west Cameroon.
I am surrounded by the membership books of some of the organisation’s small borrowers, detailing their loan totals and bi-monthly repayments. There is no column for defaults. When the women (it is mostly women) meet to make their regular contributions they [...]
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