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Kiva Lenders Have Needs, Too
By Abby Gray, KF6 Togo and KF7 Senegal Jacques, WAGES' Kiva Coordinator, and a colleague taking a boat to visit a Kiva client in a rural area. Meet Jacques. He’s the Kiva Coordinator at WAGES, a … more →
Kiva Stories from the Field
Kiva Lenders Have Needs, Too
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wrote 2 months ago: By Abby Gray, KF6 Togo and KF7 Senegal Jacques, WAGES' Kiva Coordinator, and a colleague taking … more →
Power to the People
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wrote 4 months ago: By Abby Gray, KF6 Togo and KF7 Senegal How a Kiva Fellow Alumna’s non-profit organization, SunPower … more →
Microfinance through New-York-Colored Glasses
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wrote 5 months ago: By Abby Gray, KF6/7, Togo & Senegal (now in New York) In Dakar, this ad provoked vandals to rebe … more →
Signing Off from Senegal
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wrote 7 months ago: My memories of the last eight months away from home are a jumbled mass of color, freedom, fear, pati … more →
Won't You Be My Neighbor...And Give Me a Good Credit Rating
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wrote 8 months ago: "Tea" Over tiny cups of scalding, frothy sugar water that Senegalese people call “tea,” I … more →
Another Way Microfinance is Changing the World
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wrote 9 months ago: Imagine that you’re a young West African woman. You live in a small village, and you had to q … more →
Why I Can Buy Maimouna a Sprite
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wrote 9 months ago: Today was my first day of work at IMCEC, a Senegalese MFI based in Dakar. I’m working out of their o … more →
Le Colonel
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wrote 12 months ago: Three years ago, the streets I drive on today in downtown Lomé were ablaze with burning tires and ba … more →
Finding a Gray Area
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wrote 1 year ago: By now, the living room with blue velvet couches really does feel like home. My Togolese family memb … more →
How Your Loan Affects an MFI: Behind the Scenes of Microfinance
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wrote 1 year ago: Most people reading this blog already agree that microfinance is a promising way to help people work … more →
Why I Can't Give Abozu My Camera
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wrote 1 year ago: This is my first post from the field, and, unfortunately, I’m not writing to share an inspirin … more →
A Healthy Dose of Optimism
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wrote 1 year ago: From the first time I happened across the Kiva Fellows website, I knew I had to apply. Here was an … more →
