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This is me interviewing a few Kiva borrowers for their journal updates.

Olga sells various merchandise in the open-air market.
Priscilla and Delia have a group loan together. Priscilla only speaks Quechua so Delia helped translate for her. Priscilla is dressed in typical mamacha clothing, but her head-to-toe black likely indicates that someone important in her family has passed away recently. In local culture, the mamacha women dress in black for one year after the death of a loved one. Priscilla borrowed for her to bring more merchandise to her shop from Lima. Delia borrowed for her to go to various fairs around the region to bring more cheese to sell at the markets in Ayacucho.

From left to right: me, Olga, Priscilla, and Delia.