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Meet Kiva's Field Partner: EDESA
By Megan Tatman Montgomery, KF8 Costa Rica Microfinance involves a tremendous amount of legwork. While Kiva is all about facilitating connections between borrowers and lenders, it’s important t… more →
Kiva Stories from the Field
Meet Kiva's Field Partner: EDESA
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 5 months ago: By Megan Tatman Montgomery, KF8 Costa Rica Microfinance involves a tremendous amount of legwork. Wh … more →
The Power of Education and Collaboration
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 5 months ago: As I described in a previous blog post, EDESA (Kiva’s field partner in Costa Rica) works with a netw … more →
An Innovative & Effective Microfinance Model
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 7 months ago: Intro to EDESA and their network of Empresas de Crédito Comunal Kiva’s field partner in Costa … more →
Adios ADEPHCA, Hola EDESA
Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 7 months ago: I’ve just arrived at my fourth and final placement as a Kiva Fellow. Less than two weeks ago I was … more →
Does Business Diversification Reduce Risk or Increase It?
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 7 months ago: Perhaps it depends on the context. Now having served as a Kiva Fellow at three of Kiva’s partner mic … more →
Literacy and Child Labor in Bluefields, Nicaragua
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 8 months ago: Having spent two months in Bluefields, Nicaragua now, I have been struck by the near absence of two … more →
Microfinance Challenges in Bluefields, Nicaragua
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 9 months ago: Preface: I recently posted a blog describing some of the unique challenges people in Bluefields must … more →
Bluefields, Nicaragua
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 9 months ago: I sat down to write this post at least five times. I want to tell people a little about Bluefields, … more →
Nicaragua Bound!
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 10 months ago: My name is Megan Montgomery, and I am writing from Houston International Airport on my way out for f … more →
A Day in Prison
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 1 year ago: Two weeks ago FAPE launched a new program. After months of fighting bureaucracy, they finally got … more →
Highs and Lows
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 1 year ago: As my fellowship continues to fly by, I’ve had many, many positive experiences, and really only one … more →
¡Adios Puente de Amistad, Hola FAPE!
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 1 year ago: My time at Friendship Bridge has come to an end and I’m off to Guatemala City to start the next phas … more →
Update from Guatemala
Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 1 year ago: It’s hard to believe another two weeks have already flown by. Since I last wrote, I spent anoth … more →
In Love
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 1 year ago: I fell in love today. It started out as an innocent crush, evolved into a dangerous infatuation, and … more →
Greetings from Guatemala
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Megan Tatman Montgomery wrote 1 year ago: While I didn’t quite get it together enough in the midst of scrambling to get ready to go to write a … more →
