18 August 2007
Hi readers! My name is Ben Elberger and I work with Kiva as a Microfinance Partnerships Manager. I’ll be blogging for the next six weeks from Africa as I travel with Chelsa Bocci and John Berry, Kiva Microfinance Partnership Directors, to our partners in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique.
Right now, I’m sitting in my friends’ dining room packing up final things and getting ready to head out to Dulles Airport for my flight to Entebbe (via Amsterdam). Chelsa and I will meet up in Amsterdam and we’ll rendezvous with John in Uganda. It’s exciting, I’m a little nervous, but it will be amazing to see the impact of Kiva’s work in the field and to explore new partnerships with great microfinance institutions. We’ll begin the trip in Uganda at the 3rd African Microfinance Conference, head over to Rwanda, then visit our partners in Nairobi and Kisumu in Kenya, fly down to Dar es Salaam and visit YOSEFO and some great potential partners in Tanzania, and then visit our two partners in Mozambique as well as a few prospective Kiva partners.
We’ll try to blog every chance we get so keep coming back!
Ben
Entry Filed under: Kenya, Kiva Field Partners, Kiva Staff, People Microcredit Investment Bureau (PEMCI), Share an Opportunity Microfinance Ltd., Tanzania, Uganda, Women's Economic Empowerment Consortium (WEEC), Youth Self Employment Foundation (YOSEFO). .
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1. Fred | 18 August 2007 at 21:52
I hope you have a safe and successful trip. I look forward to reading your posts.
2. Higenyi Phillip Kakuru | 26 August 2007 at 13:23
Hi i dont know if you are still on the road however i really wish you could pass through a town called busia in eastern uganda where i believe Kiva could really help out if they can. microfinance organisations here are reaping off pple and con-artists have taken advantage as well. Profiling the stories of especially women borrowers here could really help
otherwise karibu Africa.
In case you want to network my contacts are as above.
3. Idetrorce | 15 December 2007 at 11:14
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
4. panner selvam | 3 January 2008 at 06:55
madam, i am panner from india. i want to start my own business of finance.will u lend me a loan?