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Climate Change hits Kiva Borrowers in Bolivia
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 23 December 2009
By Suzy Price Marinkovich, KF9 Bolivia “In a world that is hot—a world that is more and more affected by global warming—guess who is going to suffer the most? It will be the people who caused it the least—the poorest people in the world, who have no electricity, no cars, no power plants, and virtually no factories [...]
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Cocaine and Microfinance
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 10 December 2009
By Suzy Marinkovich, KF9 “Coca is green, not white like cocaine.” – Evo Morales The Chapare, the Yungas, the DEA, USAID, cocaine, drug trafficking, alternative crops, forced eradication, Evo Morales. These are the buzz words constantly attached to Bolivian articles on the both domestic and foreign-aided drug war against cocaine production. While tough to get the [...]
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Why Me?: A Post about Bolivian Women
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 10 November 2009
By Suzy Marinkovich, KF8 Peru & KF9 Bolivia Twisted twining vining metal unrhythmic untamed unkempt and in comes the dust sweat and sticking to me tires thumping each rock unsettled plastic bag squeezed empty tossed out the window just a drop of papaya juice leaps back clings to the dirty car door parting from the white [...]
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Women in Hats
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 22 September 2009
By Suzy Marinkovich, KF9 Bolivia We can’t get enough of them. We love them so much that they even have their own lending team of fans and a discussion on KivaFriends. Whether they are made of straw or soft fabric, bowler, flat-brimmed, or a tiny saucer looking thing on our borrower’s heads – we just love [...]
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Cochabamgringa en el Hospital
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 18 September 2009
By Suzy Marinkovich, KF9 My husband walked in to the CIDRE office this Tuesday around 5pm, smiling big but smelling awful. Everyone crowded around and asked, “Mateo! Como le ha ido?” – “How was your [first] day?” I could tell they were worried all day when they had asked me if I heard from [...]
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The Cows of Cochabamba
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 17 June 2009
By Nick Cain, KF7 Paraguay In Cochabamba, Bolivia, milk is quite literally the ticket to financial services and economic growth. Kiva lenders, meet CIDRE, your newest Field Partner in Bolivia. Last week I traveled from Asunción, Paraguay to Cochabamba, Bolivia to train CIDRE’s staff members on the Kiva platform, help them learn a little about the [...]
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