Collect possible future 2010 calendar photos here

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[mejane]

Name: Abdul Wali Location:  Afghanistan Primary Activity  Livestock Original picture:  1024 x 768

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=59898&_tpos=f&_tpg=h

[mejane]

Name: Joel Ibhawoh Location:  Nigeria Primary Activity  Bricks Original picture:  1556 x 1167

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=59471&_tpos=f&_tpg=h

[mejane]

Name: Deborah Joseph Location:  Nigeria Primary Activity  Divine Fabric Shop / Cloth & Dressmaking Supplies Original picture:  1815 x 1361

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=59528&_tpos=f&_tpg=h

[mejane]

Name: Arame Faye Location:  Senegal Primary Activity  Fruit & Vegetable Sales Original picture:  3264 x 2448 At first glance there doesn't seem much that is remarkable about this picture.  However, here is the proprietor, on the plains of Africa, on a dirt floor, doing a "juggling act" to sell her fruit.  The contrast between the poverty and her ingenuity was wonderful!!    Jane

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=59770&_tpos=f&_tpg=h

[NevadaStars]

Juana owns a mini-market in the Dominican Republic and is blind.  (Colmado = Grocer)

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=41328

[mejane]

Here is a group photo that I think has potential for next year.  It is one of my current loans and will run through April 2009.  What drew me in was the story.  (The story is actually very long but I will try to trim it down for the post.)  The colors of the ladies dresses are wonderful and they make these clothes in their business.  Jane

Name: Belen Cerro de Oro (Group 1) Location:  Guatemala Primary Activity  Weaving Original picture:  2000 x 1500 Across from school’s cement courtyard, where turkeys spread their tails, mocking the unfortunate fate of the fried chickens being sold for lunch, sit 28 women under the shade of an avocado tree. Shifting periodically to avoid the sun's glare as it tracks across the sky, the women of the Belen communal bank are perched on rocks, steps or sitting flat on the ground, waiting for their meeting to begin. They have come from all over their town of Cerro de Oro, by foot, tuc tuc, or bus, to this central spot where they have been meeting once a month for the past seven years. Surrounded by poverty, this avocado tree brings them hope with each meeting. It is under this tree that they receive their loans from Friendship Bridge and learn how to best invest to change their futures.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=38887 Long before the monthly meetings under the avocado tree, the women of Belen worked long days in the factories of other weavers, earning meager incomes that could barely provide food or shelter for their families. Since joining Friendship Bridge, all 28 women have become their own bosses, opening their own businesses, employing as many as five other women in turn. They are also teaching their daughters the trade, which is an important aspect of the Atitlán culture. However, their dreams go further for their children. Their children all attend the local school, and their mothers dream that they will learn to read and write, acquiring knowledge of other things, so that someday they can break free from the struggles of their parents and enter a world full of opportunity.

[Christopher]

Unfortunately plans have had to be changed :http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,2405.msg40356.html#msg40356.

In the future we look forward to photos from Kivafellows, but until then there plenty of threads to view and post interesting pictures of entrepreneurs - thankfully RichardF compiled this list not long ago: http://www.kivafriends.org/index.php/topic,2345.msg37259.html#msg37259