How was Swaziland?
A well-intentioned question that begs for a one sentence high level summary that would precisely impart the quality, intensity, and emotional impact of the experience.  Innocent enough as questions go, but really it just causes the receiver of this question tremendous anxiety to deliver the above described response.  Instead what you will get [...]

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 [...]

The king made international news today. His wives went shopping for new dresses to celebrate his upcoming 40th birthday and the 40th anniversary of Swaziland independence. Sounds innocent enough, however when you consider that he sent nine of his wives on a private plane to the Europe and Middle East, it becomes clearer why there were [...]

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 [...]