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 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 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 [...]
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
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 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 [...]
