Cameron's Mozambican Kiva Fellowship – The Story
Posted in Microfinance on Aug 20th, 2009
Over the past couple weeks I’ve started to devote more of my time to Kiva MFI (microfinance institute) recruitment. Essentially I’m selling Kiva. This involves meeting with any number of people in hotels, cafes and government buildings, giving them a Kiva education and trying to bring them online as Kiva partners. While there is a [...]
Posted in General on Aug 17th, 2009
Friends, family, employees, ex-girlfriends,
Mosamba.com is officially in the running to be named the best 1st person, personal account, Kiva Fellows blog in the blogsphere. Through a lengthy process my friend Cissy and I have determined that our blogs are the two very best Fellows blog and are now ready to duke it out to determine [...]
Posted in Maputo on Aug 16th, 2009
Someone once told me that my sister was getting married to a Swede. It was many years ago, and I’m not sure if I believe that person because it has yet to happen. Either way, yesterday while wondering the streets of Maputo I ran into the Swedish Embassy. Here is a photo of the Embassy [...]
Posted in Microfinance, Technology on Aug 14th, 2009
Today I met with people from GTZ (Dutch-German Partnership Energising Development) about a solar product that they are attempting to launch both here in Boane and in Matutuine in districts that are off the energy grid. There are two products 1) a solar lamp with built in radio ($40) 2) a larger battery unit that [...]
Posted in Housing, Microfinance on Aug 13th, 2009
That’s the title of a piece I just posted to the Kiva Fellows blog.
Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe, right? Well, yes and no. Although that text is lifted directly from the about us section of Kiva’s website it doesn’t tell the [...]
Posted in Travel on Aug 3rd, 2009
So apparently Winston Churchill really liked Uganda. While defiling a Ugandan bathroom I noticed a Churchill quote on the wall, “A lot of people are asking me about my journey to Africa, it can be summed up in three words ‘concentrate on Uganda’”. Pretty typical imperialist quote from a pretentious Englishman.
Anyway, while I don’t much [...]
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 General, Technology on Jul 16th, 2009
This is what happens when you insert a co-workers flash drive into your USB port in the Moz. My computer literally made an alarm sound. It was pretty fun, I laughed. Glad I’ve got some mighty fine anti-virals for my computer.
Posted in Microfinance, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
Warming the moto up in the parking lot. I only fell twice today (just kidding mom).
Children of the motoway. They always get pretty excited when the moto arrives.
Posted in Agriculture, mozambique on Jul 15th, 2009
After writing a blog post last week about the need for Mozambicans to produce agricultural products locally in order to lessen their dependence on South African agriculture, bring down food prices and eat fresh food I found a local hero. Yesterday I spent the better part of an hour on Bernardo Armando’s agricultural plot. Bernardo [...]
