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0% Interest student loans! YSBS – Indonesia

Dewi, pictured here in her grandmother’s shop, is studying accounting but wants to be a novelist. I say do BOTH! Amazing things are happening at Yayasan Sosial Bina Sejahtera (YSBS,) a very new… more →

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0% Interest student loans! YSBS - Indonesia — 1 comment

jonhiebert wrote 6 months ago: Dewi, pictured here in her grandmother’s shop, is studying accounting but wants to be a noveli … more →

Tags: Indonesia, blogsherpa, Updates from the Field, KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class), KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class)

Savings Accounts make me way too excited! — 4 comments

jonhiebert wrote 10 months ago: Team Building Exercises Obviously, as a Kiva Fellow, I’m always excited to hear about how our field … more →

Tags: Uganda, Kiva Team, Facilitation of Savings, KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class), KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class), Microfinance, kiva, Kiva Fellows, Africa

On Dedication, Adversity, and Not Being a Whiner — 13 comments

gringacarioca wrote 11 months ago: Micaela Browning | KF17/18 | Sierra Leone This post has a long-ish preamble before I get down to the … more →

Tags: Kiva Field Partners, Africa, Sierra Leone, Salone Microfinance Trust, Countries, blogsherpa, Updates from the Field, KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class), Travel

Update from the Field: Life as a Fellow in San Francisco, a walk through an art fair + becoming part of a winning soccer team — 6 comments

IsabelB wrote 11 months ago: Compiled by Isabel Balderrama | KF17 + KF18 | Bolivia KF-18: ready for training! Aaaand… GO! O … more →

Tags: Perú, Americas, Eastern Europe & Central Asia (EECA), KF16 (Kiva Fellows 16th Class), KF16 (Kiva Fellows 16th Class), KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class), KF18 (Kiva Fellows 18th Class), México, kiva training

Update from the Field: Appreciating Volunteers & Poetry from a Newly Arrived Fellow — 4 comments

dgorgani wrote 1 year ago: Compiled by David Gorgani | KF17 + KF18 | Guatemala Suzanne, a volunteer translator based in Istanbu … more →

Tags: Updates from the Field, Microfinance, kiva, Kiva Fellows, Kenya, Kiva.org, blogsherpa, turkey, International Development

Who Are Some of Maya's Volunteers + What Do They Do? — 3 comments

act4impact wrote 1 year ago: By Kimberly Strathearn, KF 16/17, Turkey Volunteers aren’t paid, not because they are worthles … more →

Tags: blogsherpa, KF16 (Kiva Fellows 16th Class), Updates from the Field, Microfinance, kiva, Women, kiva fellow, microcredit, kiva microloans

Update from the Field: Introducing joinFITE.org, a new platform designed to empower women in entrepreneurship — 5 comments

IsabelB wrote 1 year ago: Compiled by Isabel Balderrama | KF17 | Ecuador Fatime, Ayşe Betül, Sevtap, and Fatma, all members of … more →

Tags: KF16 (Kiva Fellows 16th Class), Women, turkey, KF-16, kf-17, joinFITE, Updates from the Field, Female Entrepreneurship, dermatológica

Retail Consumers as Micro Lenders + What is FITE? + Maya Entrepreneurs Supported by FITE — 2 comments

act4impact wrote 1 year ago: By Kimberly Strathearn, KF 16/17, Turkey Dermalogica Lending team logo joinFITE logo joinFITE lendin … more →

Tags: blogsherpa, KF16 (Kiva Fellows 16th Class), Updates from the Field, Microfinance, kiva, Women, kiva fellow, microcredit, kiva microloans

Updates from the Field: Past and Present, Last-Minute Contemplation and General Appreciation — 3 comments

dgorgani wrote 1 year ago: Compiled by David Gorgani | KF17 | Dominican Republic Ma, a Kiva borrower, and her business in San F … more →

Tags: Updates from the Field, Microfinance, Dominican Republic, kiva, Kiva Fellows, México, Cameroon, Kenya, Togo

More than Microfinance: The Holistic Experience of a Kiva Fellow — 6 comments

jlgreenthal wrote 1 year ago: By Jamie Greenthal | KF 17 | Philippines Kiva Fellows get a front row seat to the delivery of microf … more →

Tags: Microfinance, kiva, Kiva Fellows, Travel, Kiva.org, blogsherpa, NWTF, Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Jamie Greenthal

Kiva’s first full-tuition student loans: Looking at both sides of the coin — 3 comments

Nessa E. French wrote 1 year ago: Olivia, one of the first full tuition Kiva loan students. http://www.kiva.org/lend/432412 Nessa E. F … more →

Tags: Kenya, Africa, Anti-Poverty Focus, Innovation, Updates from the Field, kiva, Strathmore University, student loan

Work Hard, Play Hard — 1 comment

natalie wrote 1 year ago: Natalie Sherman | KF17 | Cameroon It’s been said, countless times, that one of the most rewarding ex … more →

Tags: Cameroon, Microfinance, Kiva Fellows, Africa, Microfinance in Cameroon, Kiva Field Partners, ACEP Cameroun

The Legacy of Trujillo — 2 comments

dgorgani wrote 1 year ago: David Gorgani | KF17 | Dominican Republic Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, El GeneralissimoToday mar … more →

Tags: Dominican Republic, kiva, Kiva Fellows, Kiva.org, blogsherpa, International Development, KF17

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same) — 5 comments

functionkey wrote 1 year ago: Michael Slattery | KF17 | Togo Is Togo much different from what the 1969 edition of the Encyclopaedi … more →

Tags: Togo, Kiva Staff, Africa, Wages, Kiva Team, blogsherpa, Updates from the Field, kiva, Kiva Fellows

Update from the Field: Nomadic lifestyles, road trips + cultural perspectives — 4 comments

IsabelB wrote 1 year ago: Compiled by Isabel Balderrama | KF17 | Ecuador Welcome to this week’s Update from the Field! I … more →

Tags: Kenya, Samoa, Ukraine, Indonesia, Palestine, mongolia, Women, Borrower Verification, Palestine

Different Worlds: Two Perspectives on Borrower Privacy from Indonesia and Ukraine — 4 comments

cpaci wrote 1 year ago: Heather Sullivan | KF17 | Indonesia Chris Paci | KF16 & KF17 | Ukraine When not sampling local d … more →

Tags: Ukraine, Indonesia, HOPE International - Nadiya Ukraine, Tanaoba Lais Manekat (TLM), blogsherpa, Microfinance, kiva, client protection, blogsherpa ukraine

A Day in the Life: Loan Officers and Chickens — 6 comments

adriaorr wrote 1 year ago: Adria Orr | KF17 | Samoa They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So how much is a video worth? … more →

Tags: Samoa, South Pacific Business Development (SPBD), East Asia & the Pacific (EAP)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Borrower... Part 1 — 3 comments

Nessa E. French wrote 1 year ago: Kisumu borders Lake Victoria. Nessa E. French | KF 17 | Kenya Borrower verifications can be the most … more →

Tags: Kenya, KADET (The Kenya Agency for the Development of Enterpri, Updates from the Field, kiva, nairobi, kisumu, Lake Victoria, kapsabet

The Women's Cooperative of Deir Bzei, Palestine — 5 comments

Philip wrote 1 year ago: Philip Issa | KF17 | Palestine In my last post, I examined the extent to which the lending programs … more →

Tags: Palestine, Women's Empowerment, Palestine, Palestine Women Development, Village Banking, Female financial empowerment


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