Just shout it out: Obama! On the streets off Kenya, this gets you cheeers and hoots and offers off friendship and prayers…a good word, indeed.
It is good to be American in Kenya, that much I can say. Nairobi was not totally wild, but I definitely got shouts from buses and Matatus all day long. People [...]
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Universal Language: Obama
November 5th, 2008 — , Add new tag, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kenya, obama from davidalexanderstewart @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Get to Know Me
October 9th, 2008 — , &_tpg=fb, Add new tag, Asia & the Pacific, Countries, Dian Bhuana Lestari Foundation (Dinari), Indonesia, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Lander Burr from lburr @ Kiva Stories from the Field
To introduce myself, I’d like to tell you how I got out of the basement. But first you need to know how I ended up there.
In 2005, I was a year removed from an undistinguished college career and working at a small hedge fund in midtown Manhattan. And struggling. With the city, my health, a [...]
Back to Cambodia
October 5th, 2008 — , Add new tag, Cambodia, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), kanae from kanaeochiai @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Thank you for reading my blog, I’m Kanae, Japanese and Kiva Fellow. Finally I came to Phnon Penh, Cambodia, on Oct. 3rd. The road to here was very long, but I’m very excited to be here again. Yes, I came to Cambodia 9 years ago. At that time, the city looked very dusty and unpaved. [...]
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September 30th, 2008 — , Add new tag, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Kiva, SEDA, Uncategorized, Vietnam, Xanthi Kouvatas, microfinance from xanthisodyssey @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I am not a morning person. I know this about myself, but am starkly reminded of this fact when my alarm goes off at 6am. In a zombie trance I get out of bed, put the kettle on and have a shower. I put on the clothes I chose the night before, as I know [...]
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A Study in Contrasts
August 28th, 2008 — , Add new tag, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Nabomita Dutta, Sero Lease and Finance Ltd. (SELFINA), Tanzania from nabomitaforkiva @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Dar es Salaam. The city is an assault on the senses. Flying into Nyerere International airport, my first glimpse of Tanzania, and indeed of Africa, is incredibly beautiful – mile upon mile of azure ocean clings alluringly to a sandy coastline, clusters of coconut trees spring up from between houses with maroon and blue roofs, [...]
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July 19th, 2008 — , Add new tag, Cameroon, Ghape, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Lucy Gent from lucygent @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Tuesday was the last day that the former Kiva Fellows, Megan and David, spent at the GHAPE office http://www.kiva.org/about/aboutPartner?id=40. The going-away party was really sweet with a board members lunch and gifts of gratitude. The main office in Bamenda is located in a family compound, with an open central area for recreation and cooking. The [...]
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June 30th, 2008 — , Add new tag, KF5 (Kiva Fellows 5th Class), Micro Credit Development Trust SACCO (MCDT), Taryn Goodman, Uganda from Taryn Goodman @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Each morning before heading into the field, I read the New Vision, a daily newspaper in Kampala. A few weeks ago there was a special article about a town in Uganda in which the men do nothing but drink, gamble and nurse their hangovers while the women work and tend to the house, children and [...]
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June 27th, 2008 — , Add new tag, Jessica Heinzelman, KF5, Nigeria, Uncategorized from jheinzelman @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
After all of the horror stories I had read on the Internet (kidnappers waiting to grab Americans at the airport, planes crashing because someone tried cooking over a coal fire in the back, rampant corruption and required bribery) I was a little nervous before embarking on my travels to Nigeria. Somehow Nigeria had been [...]
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