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Welcome to Senegal – the land of ‘Teranga’
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 13 December 2009
By Nicki Goh, KF9 Senegal After more than 2 months of waiting, the time has finally come for me to put into practice all that I learned back at the KF9 training week in San Francisco. As I sit here at the beginning of my second week working at Senegal Ecovillage Microfinance (SEM) I remember the [...]
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Global Slowdown: Senegal
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 December 2009
Ilmari Soininen KF9 UIMCEC Senegal Many developing countries were just beginning to recover from the havoc caused by sky-rocketing food and fuel prices, when the last F-bomb hit – the financial crisis. A year in, what are the effects on Kiva’s borrowers, partner MFIs and the diverse array of countries we work in? Is there [...]
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Phonecards and Peanuts: Looking at Micro-finance through the Macro Lens
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 16 November 2009
Ilmari Soininen KF9 UIMCEC Dakar, Senegal Topping up one’s phone credit is never a problem in Dakar – on every street corner you will find one, or usually three or four young men hawking the same exact Orange Telecom cards. They offer the exact same cards, in the exact same spot, at the exact same time. [...]
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Geopolitics and giant goats: thoughts from a week in Dakar
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 12 October 2009
By Ilmari Soininen, KF9 UIMCEC Dakar, Senegal “Africa lite” is how a retired career diplomat once described Senegal to me. Glancing at a map of West Africa he may have a point. Bloody diamond-fuelled conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia, violent Islamic extremism in Mali and Mauritania and the recent military coup in Guinea make Senegal look like [...]
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Signing Off from Senegal
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 26 May 2009
My memories of the last eight months away from home are a jumbled mass of color, freedom, fear, patience, frustration, and energy – raw, shifting memories that have not yet arranged themselves into neat, packageable stories that I can pull from the shelf at parties when I get home. I have tested my sense of self [...]
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