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The Best of South America Part 2: Travellers Share Their Tips
Blog: Never Ending Voyage - 25 January 2012
To celebrate the launch of our free ebook South America Highlights we asked other travel bloggers to share their favourite places and experiences on the continent. In Part 1 we heard their top tips for Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Brazil and now in Part 2 we move on to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. For exhilarating [...]
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A Fellowship in Photos (Part 2)
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 4 January 2012
By Kate Bennett, KF15 Ecuador / KF16 Perú After my first placement in Ecuador, I thought I knew living and working in South America- three months in Ica, Perú proved me wrong. New (and delicious) food, a drastically different (and drier) climate, and wonderful new friends, coworkers, and chicha-vending Kiva borrowers showed me another side [...]
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Earthquake! (and Disaster Mitigation through Microfinance)
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 November 2011
Last Friday morning my Fellows Blog post mentioned the devastation of the 2007 Peruvian Earthquake in Ica, Peru and the surrounding areas.
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Ica… So Much Sand to Play With…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 24 January 2011
The key bonus I can see for going on holiday around Ica and Nazca is that you will never have to worry about what to do on a rainy day. They get rain so rarely that good holidaying weather is a pretty safe bet whatever time of year you go to visit. We headed to [...]
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Ica Wine-Tasting – Sampling The Pisco
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 16 April 2010
I have terrible taste in wine. I feel the need to get that out there right now, because I had a fantastic time wandering around Ica’s vineyards and drinking shot after shot of some of Peru’s typical wines. But the reason why this wouldn’t suit everyone is because the wine from here is sweet. Properly [...]
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The Future of Microfinance: A Brief Peek Inside the Brain of one MFI
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 30 November 2009
By Josh Wilcox, KF9 Peru While Kiva Fellows work diligently with their host microfinance institutions to implement the Kiva processes, verify borrowers, and write insightful journals on the impacts of the loans, it is easy to miss the other behind-the-scenes projects that microfinance organizations are crafting in their lair. Those of us from the developed world often [...]
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A Quick Break in the Oasis of America
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 4 November 2009
By Josh Wilcox, KF9 Peru Taking a brief recess from borrower profiles and repayment schedules at Kiva’s MFI pilot partner Caja Rural one weekend in Ica, Peru, I escaped to visit the small town of Huacachina, the “oasis of America”, located just a few miles outside the sandy metropolitan hub of Ica. Having become famous for [...]
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Highlights of Latin America
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 1 November 2009
I had such an awesome time in Latin America it’s pretty hard to pick out favourite moments. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. Here are the best things I’ve seen and done over the past six and a half months, along with links to what I originally wrote about them. Favourite City: Valparaiso, [...]
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A Stockpile of Dollars: How to Deploy Kiva Funding
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 21 October 2009
by Josh Wilcox, KF9 Peru With a significant new source of funding comes considerable responsibility and opportunity for those who represent the funds at the local MFIs (aka the Kiva Fellows). One of the most exciting privileges about working at a brand new pilot partner is the opportunity to influence how Kiva is best utilized and [...]
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Sandboarding at the oasis
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 9 September 2009
As has so often been the case on this trip, it’s the unexpected pleasures that turn out to be some of the fondest memories. Huacachina is definitely a place to fall into that category. Just south of Pisco along the Panamericana sits Ica, which is surrounded by a desert landscape with some of the world’s biggest [...]
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Peru. Checking off More of the Life List before we Kick the Bucket
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 12 June 2009
Last year a fantastic movie with Jack Nickleson and Morgan Freeman came out, and everyone jumped on the band wagon of making a “Bucket List.” I am glad that this started getting people to finally get out there and start living their lives. Now that we have crazy and more extreme ambitions and it is nice to visit places like Victoria Falls or Egypt, where we can tick a bunch items on our “bucket list” in one destination. That was what it was like when we visited Peru.
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