Archive for 5 July 2009
How do you know Maria in Peru is really buying a sewing machine with her loan?
by Rob Mittelman, KF8 Peru
A Kiva Fellow has many jobs. I have well over a dozen different tasks on my workplan.
Some of them bring us great joy and inspiration like interviewing Kiva Borrowers and getting to know new cultures and new people.
Some let us be creative like this blog and all the Flip Camera videos you see.
Some make us feel like management consultants or professors preparing PowerPoint decks and going through trainings with our MFIs on new Kiva policies or web tools.
We write about these experiences because of how fun it is to be a Kiva Fellow and how lucky we are to do these things (not blowing smoke here, it really is cool, check it out for yourself). However, one of the more unpleasant but important jobs we have is borrower verification.
Borrower verification is making sure that what you see on the website is what is really happening in the field. (more…)
