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Realities Of Microfinance In Benin. (Part 1, The White Man)
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 16 March 2011
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just to clarify, this is the sound of a small child bursting into tears at the first site of me. And once again it’s the sound that welcomes me as I enter a Beninese village, accompanying the loan agent to make sure my training has stuck. “Ha ha. Yovo yovo yovo yovo”, exclaims the mother (Haha. White man white man white man).
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A Holistic Approach
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 10 July 2009
Over the past two weeks, I’ve spent a fair amount of time at Alidé’s field offices. These offices are where the heavy lifting of Alidé’s work gets done. I often walk into an office to find fifty women waiting to be interviewed for a loan. Each office has about two or three loan officers, so, [...]
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