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Table of Contents: I speak a foreign language with at least a high level of proficiency. Where can I go as a Kiva Fellow? Arabic Armenian Bahasa Indonesian Dari or Pashto French Khmer  Mongolian Nepali Portuguese Russian Spanish Swahili Tagalog or Cebuano Turkish Urdu Vietnamese But what if I do not currently speak with a high level of proficiency, can I still go and learn there? What if my only Kiva language is English? Kiva's Anglophone Portfolio

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I speak a foreign language with at least a high level of proficiency. Where can I go as a Kiva Fellow?

 

Below is a list of countries where Kiva has (or will likely have) partnerships with local MFIs.  In most cases, fellows work at the partner's head office, however, the partner occasionally will assign a fellow to a branch office.  Cities listed below are some locations where Kiva Fellows have gone in the past, to give you some idea of where you'd be likely to go in a given country.  Future placements may take place in cities other than those listed.  Please note that for placements with a language requirement, you must be highly proficient to fluent in the language.

 

Arabic

Locations in the Middle East and Northern Africa

Iraq: Beirut (please note that our Iraqi Field Partner's head office is located in Beirut, and fellows will not be based in Iraq)

Jordan: Amman 

Lebanon: Beirut

Palestine: Ramallah 

South Sudan: Juba (Juba Arabic preferred, please do extensive research about on-the-ground realities before listing this location)

 

Armenian

Armenia: Yerevan

 

Bahasa Indonesian

Indonesia: Bali, West Timor

 

Dari or Pashto

Afghanistan: Kabul (Please do extensive research about on-the-ground realities before listing this location)

 

French

Locations in West Africa and the Caribbean 

          Benin: Cotonou

          Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou

Burundi: Bujumbura (Please do extensive research about on-the-ground realities before listing this location)

Cameroon: Bamenda, Yaoundé

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kinshasa (Please do extensive research about on-the-ground realities before listing this location)

Haiti (position based in Dominican Republic)

Mali: Bamako

Republic of Congo: Brazzaville 

Rwanda: Kigali

Senegal: Dakar, Thiès, Mbour

Togo: Lomé, Kpalimé

 

Khmer 

Cambodia: Phnom Penh

 

Mongolian

Mongolia: Ulaan Baatar

 

Nepali

Nepal: Kathmandu

 

Portuguese

Mozambique: Maputo

 

Russian

Locations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Armenia: Yerevan (Armenian preferred)

Azerbaijan: Baku (Azerbaijani preferred)

Georgia:  Tbilisi (Russian preferred) 

Kyrgyz Republic: Bishkek (Kyrgyz preferred)

Mongolia: Ulaan Baatar (Mongolian preferred)

Tajikistan: Dushanbe, Khujand (Tajik preferred)

Ukraine: Kiev (Ukrainian preferred)

 

Spanish

Locations in the Americas

Bolivia: La Paz

Chile: Santiago

Colombia: Medellín, Barranquilla

Costa Rica: San Jose

Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo

El Salvador: San Salvador

Ecuador: Quito, Guayaquil, San José de Chimbo

Honduras: Tegucigalpa

Guatemala: Guatemala City, Totonicapan

Mexico: Mexico City, Nuevo Laredo

Nicaragua: Managua, Leon

Paraguay: Asuncion

Peru: Lima, Cusco, Ica

United States: New York City, San Francisco, San Antonio

 

Swahili

Locations in Sub-Saharan Africa 

Kenya: Nairobi

Rwanda: Kigali (Kinyarwandan preferred)

Tanzania: Dar es Salaam

Uganda: Kampala, Fort Portal

 

Tagalog or Cebuano

Philippines: Manila, Mindanao

 

Turkish

          Turkey: Istanbul  

 

Urdu

Pakistan: Lahore (Please do extensive research about on-the-ground realities before listing this location)

 

Vietnamese

Vietnam: Hanoi, Thanh Hoa

 

But what if I do not currently speak with a high level of proficiency, can I still go and learn there?

If you speak conversational or low proficiency Spanish, French, Arabic or Portuguese, we cannot place you in a location requiring these languages. 

 

What if my only Kiva language is English?

 

If you do not possess skills in any Kiva language, you will still be expected to prepare for your service by studying basic conversational skills in the language for the country you are placed. These countries have English as a language of business, but your ability to connect with entrepreneurs in the field will be greatly enhanced by having a few key phrases to use in these interactions. Countries where English is acceptable for conducting fellows' activities include: 

 

Kiva's Anglophone Portfolio

Albania (Albanian preferred)

Armenia (Armenian preferred)

Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani or Russian preferred)

Cambodia (Khmer preferred)

Cameroon

Georgia

Ghana (Twi preferred)

India (proposed for 2012)

Indonesia (Bahasa Indonesian preferred)

Kenya (Swahili preferred)

Kosovo (Albanian preferred)

Kyrgyz Republic (Kyrgyz or Russian preferred)

Liberia

Mongolia (Mongolian or Russian preferred)

Philippines (Tagalog or Cebuano preferred)

Rwanda (Kinyarwandan or French preferred)

Samoa (Samoan preferred)

Sierra Leone

South Sudan (Please do extensive research about on-the-ground realities before listing this location)

Tajikistan (Tajik or Russian preferred)

Tanzania (Swahili preferred)

Uganda (Lugandan preferred)

United States: New Orleans, San Francisco, San Antonio (Spanish preferred)

Vietnam (Vietnamese preferred) 

 

 

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