This past Monday marked one of CMI's most productive, if zany workdays thus far. The team set out a full two hours earlier than usual for their trip to the Prisma offices in Juliaca, anticipating the day's 20+ borrower meetings. By sunset, the team had completed over 70 individual surveys (a record!), purchased two egg-bearing Quails, and doled out free marshmallows to Juliacans everywhere. Just another day in the life of the CMI second session volunteers.
Working like a well-oiled microfinance machine, CMI is ahead of schedule in achieving their goal of collecting 250 borrower surveys. Once processed, this data will yield a wealth of important information about the micro-entrepreneurs in the Puno region. All of CMI's hard work will culminate in a report to be finalized in the coming weeks. To boot, our video documentary will bring all the action of microfinance in live color and sound to all of CMI's fans and followers back home.
Finally, the city of Puno is still frigid and developing, but CMI loves its lakeside home in the highlands. At night, cool air from lake Titicaca breezes through city's sprawling concrete grid. Spires of tangled rebar and mortar make up Puno's peculiar skyline, and the city almost blends into the hills of brown grass sloping high and treeless around the town. More overly dramatic descriptions of Puno to come...
Joey
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I am so ridiculously proud of you guys. You are doing REAL work with a REAL positive outcome -- That research, and the thinking it demonstrates, shows a true commitment to bettering the world.
And Joey, I LOVE the overly dramatic description, especially the description of the skyline. Beautiful.
So are ya'll going to eat the quail eggs for breakfast? I wish I were there. Eat twice as many for me, Joey, will you?
Linds
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