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[...]
Archive for the ‘Paraguay’ Category
July 15th, 2011 - 9:48 am § in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Looking for Opportunity, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
La Vida Idealist.org is Seeking New Writers!
If you are reading this now, chances are you’re interested in nonprofit or development work in Latin America. You may actually already be teaching English in Colombia, or working in a national park in Costa Rica, or completing your first year of the Peace Corps in Chile. And if that’s th[...]
Street Art from the Southern Cone
Urban space as a live canvas. I can be a difficult person to travel with down here in the Southern Cone: walk two feet, stop, fish out camera, narrowly avoid traffic, squirrel away camera again. I once wandered Buenos Aires with a classmate who was working with graffiti artists. They told her (I va[...]
An Open Invitation to Paraguay
When I mention Paraguay to fellow travelers, I usually get this response: “Oh, Paraguay, I wanted to go there when I was in Iguaçu Falls/Argentina/Bolivia/Brazil/South America, but I just didn’t have the time or the visa.” To which I reply, “You didn’t have the time for the planet’s fri[...]
