Sixteen classes of Kiva Fellows have been working in the field for Kiva for years now. We upload borrower profiles. We make field visits. We battle typhoid, malaria, and poisonous spiders the size of our heads. Now, we’re no experts in living or working abroad (though we sure do like it), but[...]
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Why I Volunteer Abroad
Before I volunteered as a Kiva Fellow in Sierra Leone (May of 2011) and Bolivia (September 2011), I was living in Santa Barbara, California. Imagine: Santa Barbara beaches saturated with color, mansions with the smell of jasmine twisting through the air, and a pace of life only to be set by the sun[...]
July 25th, 2011 - 7:55 am § in Bolivia, In the Field
Uyuni Around the Edges
Where everything you see looks like snow.... but really you've got kilometers of salt fields surrounded by nothing but ghost towns, volcanic rock, and of course, llama. It blew my mind for two full days -- which is to say that its beauty was only as grand as the Puget Sound Islands -- in the rare mo[...]
