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  1. A Small Fish in a Small Pond

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 17 December 2009

    By Taylor Akin, KF9, Togo As I sat in Charles de Gaulle airport waiting for my flight to Lomé, I had already begun to feel out of place. My hair was carelessly sitting around my shoulders, I was wearing old yoga pants and a new pair of Converse, and I was munching on my mother’s half-squished [...]

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  2. On the Road

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 16 November 2009

    By Nick Malouin, KF9, Togo There’s something about traveling at high speeds in Africa that allows the mind to open up and do its best thinking. Maybe with the pot holes and daily frustrations left behind the brain can finally concentrate on something else. I had such an experience on a recent weekend trip to Lomé. [...]

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  3. Tuning Out and Coming To…in a Chicken Coop

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 28 October 2009

    By Jessica Chervin, KF9 Togo Yesterday evening, West Africa made me giddy. I have been in Togo for almost five months, and in West Africa for almost nine.  Here, my senses are never neutral.  The most lovely moments are tempered by inconvenience.  My daily moto rides to and from Microfund are at once thrilling and relaxing, but [...]

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  4. How I Got Here

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 27 October 2009

    Since arriving in Togo last week, a lot of my colleagues at FECECAV have asked how I actually got from Toronto to Kpalimé. Luckily, ten minutes into my trip I pulled out my trusty flip cam, which every Kiva Fellow has been given (thank you Flip!), and started shooting. The following 3-minute video is a [...]

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  5. 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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