Three heads are better than one
When I started the brainstorming on the process I would take for this project, I had a rough idea of how I might proceed.  But I have to say that the model became exponentially stronger as I worked with Dana and Lara.  Between the three of us, I have the [...]

How to build a microfinance scheme in Swaziland
If you build it, they will come?  This may be true for Kevin Costner and baseball fields but does not work in Swaziland.  Microcredit has been lauded as the magic potion for developing country ailments.  If your country has poverty, weak markets, illiteracy, hyperinflation, or scary sewer rats [...]

It is the time of the day right now where the sun is hitting the tips of the sugar cane like a mini flashlight is inside each of the stalks lighting them up from the bottom. This is the view I have from the design room where we are currently camping out with our [...]

The Women in the Mountains
Yunis was the first woman I spotted in the crowd of fifty or so women gathered around a tree in what seemed to me the middle of no where. But the women in Lamgabhi and the other sites where Gone Rural trades knew exactly what day and time to assemble [...]

Please describe what the organization/company you work with does, how it is set up and where it is located?
Faida Biashara Ltd. (FBL) is a for profit microfinance organization incorporated in Kenya to offer financial and non-financial services to small and micro-enterprises in the country. FBL was incorporated in Kenya as a Limited company under the [...]