With 7 weeks past and 8 weeks to go, my Kiva Fellowship is moving right along. As my colleagues around the world, from Cambodia to Uganda to Peru can attest, much of the Kiva Fellow’s life is spent in motion. Already I have had two days where the number of hours spent on buses to [...]
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Moving Right Along…
November 19th, 2008 — , Josh Bull, KF6, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kiva, edaprospo, human capital, peru from joshtoro @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Getting Started in Peru
November 16th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), peru from loriospina @ Kiva Stories from the Field
I have been in Peru for two weeks now, but I have been struggling to blog about my experience so far. I’ve been waiting for a remarkable moving microfinance success story to share, or some powerful insight into the people of Peru or an individual that I have met that I can write about. Unfortunately [...]
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November 3rd, 2008 — , Josh Bull, KF6, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kiva, edaprospo, peru from joshtoro @ Kiva Stories from the Field
When you spend 7 hours a day on buses to visit only a handful of clients, an over-ambitious Kiva Fellow may start to feel like his dream of unprecedented productivity is slipping through his fingers. Sometimes all it takes is a 30 minute conversation with a kindly grandmother to change that misperception.
I visited EDAPROSPO branches in Huaycan [...]
Manos Unidas (United Hands)
October 25th, 2008 — , KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Manuela Ramos / CrediMUJER, peru from jennyballen @ Kiva Stories from the Field
Yesterday in Chongoyape- a farming town one hour north of Trujillo, Perú - I attended the monthly meeting of Manos Unidas, the “United Hands” communal bank that serves the women of Congoyape, Lipote and Saucipe.
Our meeting starts at 3:00 pm sharp and Mara the loan officer is counting up the vouchers the women are turning in [...]
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October 18th, 2008 — , Josh Bull, KF6, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), Kiva, Uncategorized, edaprospo, peru from joshtoro @ Kiva Stories from the Field
If ever there was a time that underscored the importance of trust in economics, now is it. Readers of this blog from the United States can attest to the financial ruin that awaits us when banks suffer not only from a deficit of wealth but also a deficit of trust; it turns into a vicious [...]
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October 3rd, 2008 — , Josh Bull, KF6, KF6 (Kiva Fellows 6th Class), peru from joshtoro @ Kiva Stories from the Field
My week has been one of experiencing the meaning of the word ‘between’ (Not to be confused with the town of Between, GA which lies exactly between my parent’s house in Atlanta and my most recent house in Athens). I have experienced and relished the state of being between, which I have conveniently organized into paragraph [...]
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May 5th, 2008 — , Kiva, Uncategorized, microfinance, peru from federerchris @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
It was in December 2006 when I received an email from my brother inviting me to join a cool new website named Kiva.org which allowed individuals with a credit card to finance entrepreneurs in the developing world. Although I had heard of Microfinance I didn’t fully appreciate what it offered the world until I began [...]
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February 14th, 2008 — Ayacucho, FINCA, Friendship Bridge, Guatemala, Kiva, Kiva Fellows, Maren Misner, microfinance, peru from marenmisner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
I’ve found myself lately in a state of peace I can’t seem to explain nor justify. But peace is much preferred to chaos, and I’ll take it, no questions asked. For the first three months of my fellowship I was based in Lima, traveling from there to the different branch offices around the [...]
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January 14th, 2008 — Ayacucho, Finca Peru, Kiva, Kiva Fellows, Maren Misner, microfinance, peru from marenmisner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
As a Kiva fellow you realize the journals you write quickly become lost in the depths of hundreds of pages, full of testimonials begging to be read. I wanted to share one story I’ve found particularly moving, and hope you will, too.
An excerpt from a journal from Ayacucho, Peru:
“Celia has faced many difficulties in [...]
Ayacucho
December 10th, 2007 — Ayacucho, Finca Peru, Kiva, Kiva Fellows, Maren Misner, microfinance, peru from marenmisner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Ayacucho, Peru has a sad story. In the 80s and early 90s, it was there that the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso, ‘the Shining Path’, was thriving, fighting political and social battles that left 30,000 dead and 40,000 who remain missing. Setting foot in Ayacucho today, you’d never guess its painful history, and although [...]
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November 29th, 2007 — Maren Misner, microfinance, microfinanzas PRISMA, peru from marenmisner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Hello! Over the past month I have been experimenting with the video feature on my camera to add to the depth of the journals. If you’re interested in watching any of these videos (be warned, the quality is not the best!), you can go to youtube.com and search for Kiva Peru. I believe at the [...]
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November 19th, 2007 — Juliaca, Maren Misner, Puno, microfinance, microfinanzas PRISMA, peru, poverty from marenmisner @ Kiva Blogs from the Field
Wow, what to say…
I’ve been in Peru now about a month and a half and have had a collection of experiences reflecting every aspect between the poles of ‘what am I doing here?!’ and ‘awe-inspiring beauty’… here are some thoughts I’ve gathered along the way…
Sitting in the idle combi, waiting for it to fill [...]
¡Perú! ¡Perú! ¡Perú!
July 27th, 2007 — "prisma microfinanzas", FINCA, microfinance, microfinancing, peru, poverty, terrorism from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Finally, Perú is on Kiva. There are now two MFIs active, that Kiva has had discussions with for a while: Finca Perú and Prisma Microfinanzas. They are active in the Ayacucho and greater Puno/Juliaca regions, respectively. All very exciting.Let me add…
Opportunities for Kiva in Perú
March 3rd, 2007 — Kiva, kiva.org, microfinance, microfinancing, peru from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
As I must have told all of the 3 people that read this blog on an (ir)regular basis, for the last few months I have been trying to get something going between Kiva and Peruvian MFIs. My report on what I did while I was out there last month, has been lo…
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March 3rd, 2007 — Kiva, microfinance, microfinancing, peru from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Recently, Perú’s president Alan Garcia launched a campaign called “La Hora Sin Demora”(time without delay) against a perceived endemic national (or even transnational) problem: tardiness. Although campaigns like this appear to be popular in Perú, I d…
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(off topic) Reading up on Perú
March 1st, 2007 — books, economy, literature, peru from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
As should be well-known by now, I’m turning a bit into a Perú-o-phile or whatever you want to call it. As a result, I have been reading books about this country, both fiction and non-fiction. There is one writer you really cannot get around: Mario Var…
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March 1st, 2007 — microfinance, peru, poverty from Ramon @ Ramon's Kiva Blog
Our trip to Perú made painfully clear what I already knew, but it is always good to put things to the front of the mind.Many times, developing countries are defined by their gap between rich and poor. While this gap is real and existent, it’s by no me…
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