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Stories about life as a humanitarian aid worker, about remote places and the people I met there, about expeditions... From being ambushed in Burundi to sailing trans-Atlantic, the stories are mostly about enjoying the road more than reaching the dest
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The Monfort Plan: An interview
Yesterday, we had Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort introduce his new book, The Monfort Plan himself. Today, we are fortunate to catch him for an interview.The Road: Reading through the dissertation, I see in front of me an idealist, a dreamer, a marketeer, and ...
Wrap-up of our Philippines fundraiser
After the Philippines was hit by two consecutive typhoons, I started a project to raise the awareness of both the scale of the devastation and the impact it had on individual people. At the same time, I wanted to mobilize people to issue microfinance...
Let\'s do something for those affected by the floods in the Philippines
In the past weeks, two deadly storms struck the Philippines killed more than 700 people and destroyed the livelihoods of millions.Unfortunately, many of the entrepreneurs we support through our microfinance project have been affected. One of them was...
Picks of the week: Project 10 to the 100, 350, peace x peace...
Here are the interesting links I harvested last week:Last fall, Google.org's Project 10^100 called for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 ideas...
Our microfinance project runs as a train
In between the negativity of the tragic news of bombings in Islamabad and Peshawar this week, the continuing earthquakes and floods in Asia, the droughts in East Africa, and warnings of upcoming floods in Africa later this year, here is a bit of posi...
We raised $1,000 in a day!
Joice Dodo in Juba (Sudan), wanted to expand her bread baking business to build a house she wants to rent out. We loaned her $50 via Kiva's micro financing scheme.She is one of the loans we issued today:Today, we gave these loans on behalf of Bex (as...
More micro finance loans
Susan Edward from Juba in Southern Sudan is 28 years old and married to a teacher. She has two children who are in school. Susan sells green vegetables at the market and is requesting a loan to open a shop. We gave her a micro finance loan of $50.Thi...
Change Starts Here: We just broke the $7,000 mark!
W00T! With the funds collected during a small group lunch, re-investment of repaid loans and more loans given by our Kiva lenders' team, we just flew past the $7,000 mark on our social project.Our latest micro finance loans went to Afghanistan, Phili...
