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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 →
Kiva Stories from the Field
0% Interest student loans! YSBS - Indonesia
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wrote 5 months ago: Dewi, pictured here in her grandmother’s shop, is studying accounting but wants to be a noveli … more →
VIDEO - Kiva loans to sick ex-sugarcane workers in Nicaragua
wrote 5 months ago: by Luan Nio | KF18 Nicaragua | KF19 San Diego, USA It’s November and the sugar cane cutting se … more →
My Week with Premal - Kiva's President visiting borrowers and partners in Nicaragua
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wrote 7 months ago: Luan Nio | KF18 | Nicaragua He is named Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum and is on th … more →
Technology in the Field: the Future of Microfinance
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wrote 8 months ago: Varick Schwartz | KF18 | Kenya Kiva profile photo from mobile app When I applied to the Kiva Fellows … more →
Silicon Valley's got nothing on Yaoundé
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wrote 8 months ago: Raphael Ferry | KF18 | Cameroon I’m not thinking in terms of number of patent filings, amount … more →
About Nicaraguan beer and rum – brought to you by Kiva clients
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wrote 8 months ago: By Luan Nio | KF18 | Nicaragua One of the first things I always do when I arrive in a new country is … more →
Credit Scoring in Kenya: observations and comparisons from the field
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wrote 8 months ago: Varick Schwartz | KF18 | Kenya My Fellowship workplan has been focused a little more on the technica … more →
Is Microfinance a boon or bane..? My learnings from the field
wrote 9 months ago: With mixed emotions not knowing what to expect from the fellowship I headed to India… A sense of exc … more →
What I Left Behind and What I Took With Me
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wrote 9 months ago: By Muskan Chopra | KF18 | Kenya Sitting in the Virgin Atlantic flight to London after 10 weeks in th … more →
Update from the Field: Women empowerment in Uganda + this is my last Update from the Field :(
wrote 9 months ago: Compiled by Isabel Balderrama | KF17 + KF18| Bolivia Julie and the “PV girls” of BRAC Ug … more →
Empowering Women through... Videography?
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wrote 9 months ago: Julie Kriegshaber | KF18 | Uganda There is good reason why past Kiva Fellows at BRAC Uganda have bee … more →
Standouts in Bolivian microfinance: Spotlight on Kiva partners ProMujer and Emprender
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wrote 9 months ago: By Isabel Balderrama | KF 17 & KF18 | Bolivia On my last post I outlined some of the difficultie … more →
Sound Scenes from the Field
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wrote 9 months ago: Meredith Pierce | KF18 | New Orleans As I spend more time here in New Orleans — and as I get r … more →
Update from the Field: Going the distance in Pakistan and putting Kiva Zip together. Plus, a word on the Olympics.
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wrote 9 months ago: Compiled by Isabel Balderrama | KF17 + KF18 | Bolivia Muskan and Hussein, ready to ride out to Ol Ja … more →
Alighting, Educating and Uplifting – Kiva Zip Trustees in Action
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wrote 9 months ago: By Patrick Seeton & Muskan Chopra | KF18 | Kenya Visiting Kiva borrowers is always a special par … more →
Got Milk?
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wrote 9 months ago: Varick Schwartz | KF18 | Kenya Milk & Fur Trader Kenya’s got milk alright, and it’s … more →
Explaining Kiva Zip from a Whitewater Raft
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wrote 10 months ago: By Muskan Chopra | KF18 | Kenya I lived the life of a Kiva Zip borrower for a day as I rafted down t … more →
Mobile Money: Where's Kiva's Role? Transactions, Travels and Zebras in Zambia
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wrote 10 months ago: By Olivia Hanrahan-Soar | KF18 | Zambia and South Africa Borrower Annes with her baby Ebby in Chiru … more →
Nairobi - Where Development, Social Enterprise and Kiva come to Party
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wrote 10 months ago: By Patrick Seeton | KF18 | Kenya I’ve been in Nairobi for just over two weeks (and more importantly … more →
