Leaving anything is difficult as there are many memories and relationships that have been made along the way. Stepping away from Uganda is no different but what helps the most is the road that lies ahead. Coming to 31 Bits was still the right decision even though is has been a very difficult time for a […]
In almost one week exactly I will be getting on a plane back the US. This time without a return ticket to Uganda. Last October I took a job with 31 Bits but will be stepping away from after Friday. Often in our careers we need to step away in order to keep moving forward […]
Individual stories give us great insight into what the poor face on a daily basis but they also can distort the picture because we assume the stories we here are everyone’s story. As you can expect most stories we hear are the most extreme or interesting because stories are meant to grab our attention. Here […]
Education is a cornerstone of many organizations and is a big part of what we do here in Northern Uganda. Education is the key to opportunity in the US so of course we assume it to be the answer here. When Africans do not make the decisions we would rationally take, we assume it is […]
The greatest difficulty in opening banking services to the poor is the lack of information. The poor live on the margins of society and are absent from documented processes. The low volume of money they both earn and spend make it difficult for any type of financial history to be created for them. Group lending […]
Five years ago when I entered graduate school at UCSD I knew I was there for different reasons than everyone else. Like many in my graduate program I was passionate about eradicating poverty but what was different was how I wanted to do it. Even before I entered the program I knew that there were […]
Beyond Intentions 