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• Going Green? Overcoming Cultural Barriers to Promote Green Loans (Part 2)

  Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 14 November 2011

  By Claire Markham, KF16, Kenya In Kenya, the act of going green appears to be far less of a priority than it is in more developed green economies. In the first part of this blog series, I discussed the cultural barriers that exist in Kenya. In this second part, I attempt to answer the question of how an MFI can break through the obstacles identified in Part 1 to implement a successful green and water loan program.

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• Going Green? Overcoming Cultural Barriers to Promote Green Loans (Part 1)

  Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 20 October 2011

  By Claire Markham, KF16, Kenya In the developed world, the recent increased attention to global warming and the importance of environmental preservation and restoration efforts is something that’s hard to ignore. In Kenya, I have found this is not necessarily the case in my experiences so far. When the borrowers that we work with so often have to worry about ensuring there is enough food on the table or money for school fees, adding the responsibility of being conscious of their environmental impact can be a hard notion to sell.

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• Kampala to Nairobi – 14 hours of speed bumps

  Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 30 September 2011

  It was a terrible night’s sleep – a 14 hour bus journey from Kampala to Nairobi: I awoke cold, cold and achey. The speed bumps shuddered us awake every few minutes. I swear I woke a hundred times. A few glasses of Waragi (it was my birthday after all) would have knocked me out, but [...]

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