Cameron's Mozambican Kiva Fellowship – The Story
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 General on Jul 10th, 2009
Apparently being a good blogger involves showing fellow folk in the blogpshere some love. If you haven’t noticed, in the side bar to the right I have a few links under “friends” that link to a couple of my favorite sites and more importantly to few of my friends’ blogs.
You’ll find both of Scotty Hartley’s [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 2nd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
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 [...]
