Cameron's Mozambican Kiva Fellowship – The Story
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2009
In Mozambique toys are a real luxury item. When I’m out in the field walking around during the day there are always gangs of children out in the streets ingeniously entertaining themselves. Some are playing Mozambican forms of tag, others are playing “road” games with rocks and game boards drawn into the dirt road, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2009
I just uploaded some videos of my favorite kiva/hluvuku clients. Sousa Lipanga is by far my absolute favorite, I have eaten beef and drank beer on many occasions at his fine establishment. Bernardo Armando is the organic farmer that I have previously written about. Beware that the content of his video is a lot more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 3rd, 2009
Here are a few more pics of the Paris of South Eastern Africa. From this angle she actually shines mighty fine. I took these pictures last Friday while taking the ferry from Catembe to Maputo. It was an extremely beautiful day. I felt like I was out on the French Riviera or something, minus the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2009
I apologize for having left my loyal readers high and dry for the past week. Last Wednesday Hluvuku’s total internet connections went from two to one (my connection was the one that was sacrificed). That was the first impediment to my continual stream of blogging. The second issue that I faced was four days of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2009
Some of you may care less about what I’m reading, but others may be interested and always on the prowl for some decent recommendations. Here is what I’ve read since I arrived in Mozambique, take it or leave it, if you want further recommendations or affirmations about which one of these books is work reading [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 19th, 2009
Today I went to Maputo to eat pizza! Well, maybe that oversimplifies my motives for taking a pernicious ride on an overfilled minibus into the capital, but diversifying my normal diet of rice, bread, beer and an occasional serving of chicken certainly was close to the top of my list of things to do. [...]
Posted in Maputo, Uncategorized, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
Here are a couple shots I took yesterday that in my opinion are quintessentially Maputan. Most construction in Maputo dates back to the Portuguese days and it shows. Facobol is by far my favorite. I have a romantic view that the Facobol billboard is some sort of soccer ad from the 70s that has regally [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Microfinance, Uncategorized, mozambique on Jul 9th, 2009
The name of a diddy I just dropped on the Kiva Fellows blog. Musings on farmers markets, community tractors, indexed weather insurance and more.
Check it out
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2009
Teaching Paulo how to do VLOOKUPs
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 8th, 2009
What happens if you can’t repay your loan? I guess this is a questions often asked of microfinance? A lot of borrowers don’t have significant collateral to put up against their loans and in some cases they put up “character” or “community” collateral in lieu of real collateral. However, today while hanging out in our [...]
