September 9th, 2008 — , KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kenya, Opportunity International - Wedco Ltd. from zackturner @ Kiva Stories from the Field
It has been sometime since I’ve updated for the Kiva Fellows blog. As cliché as it is lots has happened and I’ve promised a more in depth description of the impact of the post-election crisis on micro-finance. So in baseball terminology I offer a double header (or double-dip in the vernacular of the [...]
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September 8th, 2008 — , KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kenya, Opportunity International - Wedco Ltd. from zackturner @ Kiva Stories from the Field
The last several weeks I’ve been traveling all over West Kenya visiting groups in the branch offices of OI-Wedco to do journal updates. I return back to Kisumu with a deeply somber heart.
A few weeks ago in Kakemega I met two Kikuyu single mothers from a Kiva funded group. They told me about how [...]
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August 1st, 2008 — , KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kenya, Opportunity International - Wedco Ltd., Zack Turner, africa from zackturner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
This past week Opportunity International-Wedco was able to finally report it’s loan repayments on Kiva and to its lenders (after pausing during the post-election crisis). Now I can jump into coordinating visits to do journal updates. Special thanks to the sick excel skills of my MPM, Ben Elberger.
I wanted to share a quick [...]
July 12th, 2008 — , KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kenya from zackturner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
I have made it safely and timely to my destination in Kisumu, Kenya. It has been a rush. One of my professors, Dr. Omedi Ochieng, who is from Kenya told me before I left that nothing could prepared me to fully understand what Africa would be. Personal descriptions, books, photos, UN data, only go so [...]
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