Today we received great news from our friend Mike in Libya - we have reservations for airline travel from Accra to Tripoli!! For a decent price too! In business class - now I am not quite sure what business class is like on Afriqiyah Airlines, but it has to be better than back of the bus...
We also got our air travel booked from Tripoli back to Frankfurt - so our trip planning is pretty much complete!
Also over the weekend we were in touch with a micro finance group based in Washington, D.C. who do work in Senegal. I found them through Kiva - an online micro finance organization which allows you to loan money to a person (and their project) and they repay you over a specific period of time. You can contribute as little as $25 towards as many projects as you like. As the repayments come in, they are credited towards your account and you can lend them out again. Great idea - I would recommend you checkout http://www.kiva.org/ - this is the best way to end poverty around the world - free enterprise. Lend a hand up, not a hand out!
Back to micro finance in Senegal...a village close to Niassam where we will be staying for several days is one of the many villages SEM is active. Kim and I hope to visit with some of the clients of SEM who benefit from Kiva lenders. What better way to close the circle!!
Lookout, I am a Kiva convert now...wait till we visit with some of the people that have benefited from them!! If you join up, you can put my email (grantinv@gmail.com) in the referral - I don't get anything but a thank you and hopefully build up some "goodwill" with Kiva!!
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