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A Trip Down Memory Lane of New Year’s Past
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 31 December 2011
Wow, can you believe it's nearly 2012? This has been a short Christmas season, it seems shorter than usual with Christmas and New Years falling on a Sunday. It seems like the holidays just got started and they are already coming to and end
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60 Tips from Kiva Fellows
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 30 December 2011
Compiled by Kate Bennett, KF16 Peru The sixteenth class of Kiva Fellows has all but left the field- but we're by no means done talking about our experiences. We've collectively spent 422 weeks in the field (just over 8 years!) and worked an estimated 16,650 hours at Kiva field partners around the world.
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Updates from the Field: Autonomy, Sierra Leone and the 2011 Kiva Love Tour
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 5 December 2011
Compiled by Kate Bennett, KF16, Peru This week's updates come at a time of change for Fellows around the world. As the holidays near, Fellows prepare to phase out of their current placements, move on to the next ones, and tie up loose ends with their Kiva Field Partners.
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Kiva Love Tour: Honduras 2011
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 30 November 2011
By Sandra Pina, KF16, Honduras The Kiva Love Tour wrapped up about a month ago here in Honduras. I headlined the 3-week tour which was co-sponsored by Kiva and ODEF Financiera. Each of the 26 venues (read: branches) were sold out and I dazzled (yes, I dazzled) concert-goers. I'm relieved to write that the reviews were mostly positive. Keep reading for the full recap.
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Stuff Kiva Fellows Like #10-17
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 26 November 2011
Compiled by Jim Burke, KF16, Nicaragua We are Kiva Fellows. This is the stuff we like. Here is an insider (often critical, or satirical but always true!) view of what it means to be a Kiva Fellow and promote access to financial services around the world. From party crashing to bazaars to street food, these [...]
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Travel Photo of the Day – Caribbean Fishing Village of Roatan, Honduras
Blog: Two Backpackers - 31 October 2011
Jonathan is a regular contributor for 2Backpackers.com. For more information or to sign up for his newsletter visit LifePart2.com. Oak Ridge on the Honduran island of Roatan is a little touristed Caribbean fishing village. Oak Ridge is often called the “Venice of the Caribbean” because most buildings are on the water and travel is mainly [...]
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Updates from the Field: Green Loans, Dark Alleys + On-the-Ground Footage of it All
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 24 October 2011
Compiled by Kate Bennett, KF16, Peru
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Video Blog: ODEF’s First Kiva Borrower
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 19 October 2011
By Sandra Pina, KF16, Honduras For the past six weeks I have been working in San Pedro Sula with Kiva’s newest Honduran Field Partner, ODEF Financiera, S.A. During the on-boarding process, I get to witness many of the organization's “Kiva firsts.” First Kiva presentation to staff, first training sessions with loan officers, first Kiva Borrower profile, first month of repayment reporting - you get the idea. About a week ago, ODEF posted it’s first borrower profile on Kiva.org. Doña María owns a pulpería in Naco-Santa Barbara where she sells soda, snacks, and dairy products.
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Stuff Kiva Fellows Like
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 7 October 2011
Compiled by Jim Burke, KF16, Nicaragua We are Kiva Fellows. This is the stuff we like. Here is an insider (often critical, or satirical but always true!) view of what it means to be a Kiva Fellow and promote access to financial services around the world. From alpaca fur to FSSs to ziplock bags, these [...]
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Update from the Field: Starting Capital, Development Levels + Adventurous Borrower Visits
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 26 September 2011
Compiled by Kathrin Gerner, KF16, Rwanda This week on the Kiva fellows blog, start your journey in Indonesia and read about some early lessons of a Kiva fellow.
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WWYD with 5 Lempiras?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 21 September 2011
By Sandra Pina, KF16, Honduras. What would you do with 5 lempiras (26 cents)? Toss it it in your coin jar? Tip your barista? What if I told you that with 5 lempiras, a bit of business savvy and determination, you could start your own business. Skeptical? Of course you are. I was too, until I met Ever. Ever is from Teocinte, a small community of 30 families located in the municipality of San Rafael. It took six hours to reach Teocinte from ODEF Financiera’s main office in San Pedro Sula. Three hours from S.P.S to Gracias and then another 3 hours from Gracias to Teocinte.
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Access Denied – El Salvador Border
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 28 July 2011
It was bound to happen. After 30 shockingly smooth border crossings into and out of six different countries we knew our luck at the border couldn’t last forever. Apparently, it couldn’t last until El Salvador. The problem actually started many, many months ago but we didn’t know that as we approached the immigration station at the El Poy border crossing into El Salvador from Honduras.
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5 Safety Tips for Taking Taxis in Latin America
Blog: GoBackpacking - 23 June 2011
5 universal safety tips for taking taxis in Latin America.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, 12 expert audio interviews, private support forum, and much more.
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Have your very own private island for just $100 a night
Blog: Blogging Travel Tips - 27 May 2011
So now you're thinking I've flipped my lid, come on man, a private island for $100 a night!?!? It's true! Just 20 miles off the coast of Honduras, and not far from Roatan, are two little islands that can be yours. Little Cay and Sandy Cay are both super cheap if you want to kick back on your own island.
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Another Epic Journey – Roatan to Livingston
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 16 May 2011
You know a trip which was already going to be difficult isn’t destined for trouble when your alarm clock doesn’t go off and then the first form of transport is cancelled. We were finally grateful for the rooster which woke us at 0500 as the battery to our alarm had died overnight. Then after another [...]
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The Long Journey – From Granada to Roatan via Managua
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 11 May 2011
We knew this trip was never going to be too much fun as we would be traversing the width of the continent, but thanks to the Tica Bus, it could have been a lot worse. We were starting from Granada which isn’t the jumping off point for the Tica bus, so in the afternoon we [...]
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Roatan – Chilling on the Bay Islands, Honduras
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 9 May 2011
Roatan is a diverse and rich island famous for its fabulous diving, and there’s plenty to do besides, if you aren’t into that sort of thing! Possible activities include paragliding, kayaking, ocean fly fishing and zip-lining, and at the higher end of the spectrum you can swim with dolphins or for the super rich you [...]
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Roatan Shark Dive with Waihuka Dive Center
Blog: Have Internet Will Travel - 9 May 2011
One of the things we wanted to check off our to-do list before leaving Roatan, was the Shark Dive. It was something we wanted to do on our first trip, but somehow time slipped away from us, and we just never got around to it. When we were back this fall we made sure it [...]Read the original article here: Roatan Shark Dive with Waihuka Dive Center
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Scuba Diving off Barefoot Cay, Honduras
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 5 May 2011
Barefoot Cay Divers is a PADI 5 Star centre with all the trimmings required for enjoying Roatan’s famous reef in style. They offer a wonderful valet service, which includes set-up and disassembly of equipment, high quality equipment and small boat groups making for longer bottom times all to ensure that you don’t have to do [...]
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How to Become a Divemaster: An Interview with Tina Doran in Utila, Honduras
Blog: Jamón, jamón: Alice's Gastronomic Adventures - 18 April 2011
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A Lesson From My Mom
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 7 March 2011
I will stop thinking about what is next to be explored on this journey, and start appreciating each moment I have here right now.
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Water to Water: In Transit from Island to Lake
Blog: Roasted Bugs and Sticky Rice - 25 February 2011
When the ferry from Utila arrived in La Ceiba we got into a taxi: the driver had done a little passenger consolidating, and we were off to the Hedman Alas bus terminal with two fellow foreigners. We were low on cash and the helpful cab driver took us to a functioning (!) ATM before dropping [...]
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Must. Have. Kayaks.
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 23 February 2011
An 8 mile paddle exploring the remote regions of Roatán.
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Utila! Part Dos.
Blog: Roasted Bugs and Sticky Rice - 21 February 2011
Monday, Feb. 7 Breakfast at the same place this morning. While Will continued to do his course, I did some fun diving! I went out in the morning on Tiburon (“shark” en espagnol) with Cap’m Willie, Dive Masters Josh and Paco, and fellow fun divers including Scuba Steve, a friendly Canadian who was traveling throughout [...]
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Diving In Utila! Part Uno.
Blog: Roasted Bugs and Sticky Rice - 21 February 2011
*disclaimer*- those of you who are frequent readers of my blog know that I get lazy with photo taking, as I believe it takes away from the joy of the moment. I apologize for the lack of photos, especially since we really wanted one of the two of us in our scuba gear, but I [...]
