Posts tagged ‘Swaziland’
Special Update from the Field: Beaches, Safaris + Cambodian Glamour Shots
Compiled by Alexis Ditkowsky, KF14, South Africa
Kiva Fellows are nothing if not creative. We’ve gone to elaborate lengths to convince you that it can be hard to visit borrowers and that when we’re not trekking for miles, we’re doing elaborate calculations or dealing with databases and reporting. In truth, it’s all a front for an extended holiday from our regular lives. You thought our recent Carnival coverage represented a change of pace? Think again!
Continue Reading 1 April 2011 at 00:13 Alexis Ditkowsky 7 comments
Life on the Mozambique-Swaziland Border
By Cameron Morris-KF8, Mozambique
For the last week and a half I have been working out of the Hluvuku-Adsema office along the bustling Mozambique-Swaziland border in the town of Namaacha, Mozambique. Namaacha is nestled in the Libombo mountains, boasts a plenitude of colonial architecture and has extremely erratic weather (please believe that it gets mighty cold in Mozambique). During the near fortnight that I’ve been here I have been continually impressed by the ingenuity of the international businessmen and women that ply their trade along the border.
Many of us claim to be polyglots or to engage in or have some knowledge of international business, but what does that really mean in practice? We have pedantically learned languages in school, have spent decently protracted periods of time abroad, have had conference calls with our foreign offices or flown to foreign lands to conduct business in English, the commercial lingua franca. (more…)
