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Mali in Color (Part 2): Impressions from the Road
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 13 December 2011
By Kathrin Gerner, KF16, Rwanda In the first part of this blog series, I shared pictures of Malian borrowers. But even on my way to those borrowers, I was not able to put down my camera.
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Mali in Color (Part 1): Impressions of Kiva Borrowers
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 12 December 2011
By Kathrin Gerner, KF16, Rwanda When I boarded a plane to Mali last week, I was not exactly enthusiastic. One reason may have been the unpleasant 2 AM take-off from Kigali, another the recent Al-Qaida kidnappings in the North, which meant that all relevant tourist spots were off limits. And six months into my career as a Kiva fellow, a routine task such as a borrower visit was not enough to get me excited. I was in for a surprise. The borrowers of Kiva’s Malian field partner Soro Yiriwaso and their incredible hospitality, made my trip unforgettable.
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Something you might not have seen before – Manu Dibango. “woa”.
Blog: No Beaten Path - 4 November 2010
Quite a few references in this video to various bits of West African culture that are not well known in the English speaking world, but the main one is to the fantastic studio portraits of Malian photographer Seydou Keïta. Great … Continue reading →
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Sweet Charity? On Volunteering
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 26 June 2010
I have an aversion to the idea of volunteering overseas which dates back to a hospital bed in small town Mali. It wasn’t the extended families cooking on open fires in the grounds, the babies too weak to cry, or even the emaciated woman hawking bloody sputum onto the floor beside my bed that did [...]
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Video: Mali
Blog: GoBackpacking - 5 June 2010
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Lady is Grounded
Blog: A Lady in London - 22 February 2010
After the taxi breakdown on the way to the Dakar airport, I hoped the rest of our trip would go smoothly. Unfortunately, the incident proved to be a mere taste of the bad luck we would encounter over the next three days.Our flight to Nairobi flight on Kenya Airways had a stop en route in Bamako. We landed in the Malian capital after two hours in the air, and waited for an hour while the ground staff cleaned the plane and put blankets on each seat.
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Lady in Bamako
Blog: A Lady in London - 12 February 2010
When I started telling people that I booked a trip to Mali, most of them wondered how such a seemingly obscure country had worked its way into my list of places to visit. The answer lies in a class I took at Brown: West African Dance. The professor was married to a Malian man, and most of the dances we learned were from there. In addition to learning the dances, we also learned about the culture, food, history, people, and traditions of Mali. I was fascinated. Mali was added to the list.
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Lady Gets Africa Visas
Blog: A Lady in London - 3 February 2010
One of the nice things about living in London is that seemingly every country in the world has an embassy, high commission, or other visa-dispensing diplomatic mission in the city. Sometimes this makes it really easy to get visas. It also sometimes works to my advantage when the UK visa fees are lower than the US ones, as sometimes I'm only required to pay the UK fee despite my blue-and-gold passport.Sometimes.
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The Heavens Open
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 3 July 2009
Just in the nick of time, the first rains have finally arrived in Dogon country
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Praying for rain
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 29 June 2009
In Dogon country we must tread carefully if we want to film the rains
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Extreme makeover – mosque edition
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 17 June 2009
In Djenné, everyone lends a hand for a bit of renovation work
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They call it mellow yellow
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 8 June 2009
A storm blows away some cobwebs in Mali
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