Mosamba

Teaching Paulo how to do VLOOKUPs

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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 [...]

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This is what I saw when I stepped out of  my office this evening.

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On Saturday July 4th I also started what would end up being a two part educational series on demining (removing landmines from past battlefields). Earlier in the week I randomly became acquainted with a Halo Trust team of deminers. I believe that the Halo Trust is a charity that was started by princess Diane (I’m [...]

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Saturday, July 4th was Hluvuku-Adsema’s board meeting. Important decisions were to be made. Should we buy a live lamb or 10 live chickens? The answer was 1 live lamb and 5 live chickens. Here’s a picture of the lamb.

The board meeting was not exclusive to the immediate board of directors. It included both the board [...]

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Today on the way back from Ponto do Ouro the dirt road we were on dead ended about 45 minutes into the trip. What did we do? Go back? No, we just turned the vehicle into the bush (in the middle of an elephant reserve) and drove around for another 45 minutes until we found [...]

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This morning on the way to Ponto do Ouro we dropped off a can of deisal fuel to a tractor well off into the patchwork of dirt roads. The town closest to the field the tractor was working in was equiped with solar panels as its only source of energy and apparently the local residents [...]

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Today while having our daily “mata-bixo” (literal translation=kill the animal, animal in this case being hunger) conversation turned to the civil war. Everyone perked up, got excited and started telling their stories, much in the same way that Americans around a water cooler would tell their college stories. I’ll probably write more about this later [...]

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Today I came across another beauty while visitng Raquel Tembe. To see more pictures from this series click here

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Today in Hluvuku’s weekly executive team meeting we briefly discussed a partnership involving financing solar/renewable energy projects in areas that are off the existing energy grid. Sounds pretty neat! Will update you with more news when/if there is any.

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