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The View From Here: Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 2
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The View From Here. Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 2. We have just wrapped up day two of our mission to Nicaragua on the Carribean Coast. The scenery is more breathtaking; the poverty is more heartbreaking. Nicaragua is a land of extremes. It is a land of placid lakes and active volcanoes.
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The View From Here: Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 1
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The View From Here. Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 1. Nicaragua is a beautiful country with deep ugly scars. War Hurricanes. Earthquakes. All have made their mark on the majesty of this place and the psyche of its people. Yet there is hope. And we saw it today in Masaya. President Bernardo ...
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The View From Here: Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 4
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The View From Here. Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Friday, February 5, 2010. Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 4. Think banks overcharge for credit cards? The majority of its services are used to support agriculture production, which in the view of commercial banks is too risky to extend credit. CARUNA offers a number of programs to support so-ca...
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The View From Here: Nicaragua Study Mission- Day 10
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The View From Here. Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Friday, February 12, 2010. Nicaragua Study Mission- Day 10. Mission’s Most Memorable Moments. 8226; Watching sun set on Lake Nicaragua with volcano in background. 8226; Young boys jumping off the shoulders of Dirk and Betty into Lake Nicaragua. 8226; Hearing that co-operatives are helping members...
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The View From Here: Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 6
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The View From Here. Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Monday, February 8, 2010. Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 6. Candida grows a variety of aromatic herbs, produces a variety of citrus fruit, yucca and sesame seeds and makes Jamaican wine which she serves to the Canadian visitors to her 1.5 hectare farm. Still, there are opportunities for the produc...
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The View From Here - Mongolia: Helping Others
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Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Read past "The View From Here" blogs. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. I am impressed by the leadership – whose balanced view includes the macro-environment and longer term. Their passion is contagious and their desire to grow and contribute more to the livelihoods of the members is deep and authentic. And what has this...
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The View From Here - Mongolia: The Great Mongolian Horse Race
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Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Read past "The View From Here" blogs. Monday, November 1, 2010. The Great Mongolian Horse Race. We have taken to calling the. Traffic – an endless stream of bumper to bumper chaos accompanied by a cacophony of horns (which at times passes for the daily commute), the Mongolian horse race. And that is how they drive!
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The View From Here - Mongolia: A van full of Canadians...
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Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Read past "The View From Here" blogs. Tuesday, October 26, 2010. A van full of Canadians. Overheard in a van full of Canadians in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia:. Random Torontonian: What part of Manitoba are you from? Editors note: Yee-Guan Wong is from Toronto). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blogger - Yee-Guan Wong.
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The View From Here - Mongolia: October 2010
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Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Read past "The View From Here" blogs. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. I am impressed by the leadership – whose balanced view includes the macro-environment and longer term. Their passion is contagious and their desire to grow and contribute more to the livelihoods of the members is deep and authentic. And what has this...
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The View From Here: Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 5
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The View From Here. Welcome to CCA’s international development blog page … the sights and sounds, the people and places as experienced by credit union and co-operative volunteers on the frontline of development. Monday, February 8, 2010. Nicaragua Study Mission - Day 5. The end of day five of our mission finds us on the island of of Ometepe, far removed from the squalor of the dump. Ometepe in Spanish means two mountains for the volcanoes - one active - that lay like sleeping giants here. CCA in the world.