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A Digital Nomad Budget: One Year in South America
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 27 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights, it’s South America Week on Never Ending Voyage. We’ve compiled the favourite destinations on the continent of 31 experienced travellers and today we share exactly how much we spent during our one year in South America. We began our new life as digital nomads [...]
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South America Highlights: Launching Our FREE Ebook
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 23 January 2012
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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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Update from the Field: Adapting for Borrowers by Borrowers, Microinsurance +SKFL
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 28 November 2011
Compiled by Jim Burke, KF16, Nicaragua This week’s Fellows Blog focuses on adaptability: Adapting microinsurance to poor households in Indonesia, an MFI in Turkey adapts to the needs of women entrepreneurs, a multifaceted borrower in Nepal adapts to market pressures, and a Kiva Fellow adapts to changing expectations. In a continuation of The Stuff Kiva [...]
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Update from the Field: Earthquakes, 5Ks + The Pain of Sickness and Loss
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 7 November 2011
This week’s Fellows Blog is armed with stories from the field: stories of the uncertain world borrowers live in, and how they (and we) cope with it. We’ve learned that everyone gets tired running a 5K in Paraguay, but for a good enough cause, we can will our legs to power through it. That everyone gets scared during an afternoon earthquake in Peru, but even so, borrowers, coworkers, and Field Partners will lend a hand to anyone that needs it.
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Update from the Field: Going Pilot to Active, Meeting Borrowers + Technology and Social Performance
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 19 September 2011
Compiled by Kathrin Gerner, KF16, Rwanda It has been a busy week for bloggers. The 16th class of Kiva fellows (KF16) hits the ground running and invites you to share their first experiences in their host countries across the globe. Arrive in Georgia just in time for harvest season. Continue to Sierra Leone to watch a new Kiva field partner go from pilot to active. Jump out of a plane in Rwanda - but not without a few parachutes - and learn more about agricultural loans. Bump into a Kiva borrower in Ecuador. Travel to Burkina Faso - a poor country rich in culture.
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Updates from the Field: Costs of Kiva, Donkey Shares + the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 5 September 2011
Over the course of their fellowship, each Kiva Fellows class gleans a better understanding of innerworkings of microfinance and how a microfinance institution (MFI) can tip the scales of success.
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Highlights of 1 Year in South America
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 11 March 2011
Last Tuesday we celebrated one year of travelling (and 10 days before that our blogoversary), all but four days of which were spent in South America. It’s an important milestone for us, as when we left the UK we had saved a years worth of travel funds to give us the chance to make Simon’s [...]
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Update from the Field: Man’s Day, Singing Fellows + Learning How to Count
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 7 March 2011
Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa The Fellows will be covering International Women's Day later this week but let's take a moment to acknowledge its lesser-known cousin in Kyrgyzstan, "Man's Day".
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Update from the Field: Videos, Epic Commutes + Going Beyond Microfinance
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 28 February 2011
Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa Another week, another incredible range of dispatches from around the world.
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Part 3: Borrower protection practices at Kiva partners
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 13 February 2011
About a month ago, it seemed like all I heard about was clients’ denied loans, or who got loans significantly smaller than what they needed. At the time, I was concerned about how many people weren’t getting the finances they asked for. Then I heard about the suicides in India and was glad to know that the Kiva partner where I’m stationed carefully considers how much to lend each client.
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Bus rides and long walks
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 12 December 2010
By Carlos Cruz Montaño, KF12, Paraguay Want to know what is it like to work with a loan officer? Come on… join the ride for a day! Should be an easy day, I planned to go with one of the loan officers, Nidia, to a workshop for two groups of women about planting greens and [...]
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The cost of doing good (El costo de hacer el bien)
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 5 November 2010
by Carlos Cruz Montaño One of my favorite business talks is from Yvon Chouinard, the founder/owner of Patagonia, an outdoor clothing manufacturer. Patagonia has been very successful at innovating in the apparel industry but they did it by finding the way to do the right thing at all levels of their business. As I work with Fundación Paraguaya, travel to branch offices, attend meetings and events one quote comes to mind from this talk: “leading and examined life where you have to question everything you do is a real pain in the ass, let me tell you”.
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A Digital Nomad Budget: How Much Does 6 Months in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay Cost?
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 2 September 2010
It’s been six months since we sold everything we owned and left the UK permanently to embark on our Never Ending Voyage.
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Vegetarian Survival Guide to Paraguay
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 22 July 2010
Finding vegetarian food in Paraguay is like shopping for snowboards on Raratonga. It’s even more meat-orientated than Brazil or Argentina but without the strong Italian influence that we found in those countries (pizza and pasta are often our saviours).
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Photo of the Week: Monkey and Puppy
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 18 July 2010
The pet monkey at Granja El Roble in Paraguay liked to play with the puppy. The monkey would tug at its ears but he didn’t seem to mind.
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A Practical Guide to Paraguay: Part 2 – Small Towns, Asuncion and Concepcion
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 15 July 2010
In Part 1 of our Paraguay guide we shared our experiences of travelling to Ciudad del Este, Encarnacion, Trinidad Jesuit Ruins and Parque Nacional San Rafael. In this post we continue our journey through this little visited country and share what we learned along the way.
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A Practical Guide to Paraguay: Part 1 – Ciudad del Este, Encarnacion & San Rafael
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 13 July 2010
There’s no guidebook to Paraguay and we hadn’t met anyone who’d been there. No-one seemed to know much about this mysterious country in the centre of South America.
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Eating an Argentine Empanada in New York
Blog: Bearshapedsphere - 6 July 2010
Of all the things you could eat when wandering the streets of downtown Manhattan, whether it be a knish, a pretzel, a slice of pizza, a samosa, a soft taco dripping with salsa verde, the thing that appealed to me the most on my first day in "the city" was this.
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Photo of the Week: Paraguay Sunrise
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 4 July 2010
Gorgeous sunrise at the farm Granja El Roble in Northern Paraguay near Concepcion.
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Photo of the Week: Butterfly in Paraguay
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 27 June 2010
We stayed on the outskirts of a small town in Paraguay at the San Ignacio Country Club where flowering trees were covered in hundreds of beautiful butterflies.
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Why You Should Try Couchsurfing
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 24 June 2010
Although we’d been couchsurfing hosts before, and it’s on our list, it’s taken us a while to actually get around to surfing someone else’s couch. To be honest we were rather nervous about staying in a stranger’s house, and not sure what to expect.
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Photo of the Week: Trinidad Ruins, Paraguay
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 20 June 2010
Where in the world can you have a UNESCO World Heritage site all to yourselves? Paraguay! We visited these beautiful ruins of the Jesuit settlement at Trinidad set amongst peaceful countryside and were the only visitors.
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Iguazu to Buenos Aires by bus
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 20 February 2010
puerto iguTrivia - Where is 'Thatcher Day' celebrated on January 11th Puerto Iguazu to Buenos Aires then Uruguay.
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A dam fine day out
Blog: Travel log and tips for budget travel by backpacking, RV (motorhome) and cruising - 5 February 2010
Trivia question - what are the only 2 landlocked countries in South America?
