Monthly Archive for: ‘July, 2011’

There is no Yellow Brick Road

There is no Yellow Brick Road

I’m not sure what I thought micro-finance would be like. Maybe after a small loan a woman wakes up the next day and presto!, finds a thriving business that enables her to build a brand new house and send her kids to good schools. I suspect most of the criticism of micro-credit comes from notions […]

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Poverty is Misery

What an uplifiting title for this post…. I bet you’re excited to read. During our interviews (conducted in kreyol) the Solid Women use the word misery and the word poverty interchangeably. When you see the life of a Haitian peasant up close, the opportunities for misery peak out of every nook and cranny. Lozelle told […]

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