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Half the World’s LDCs Can Emerge from Poverty, Says a New UN Report
On Tuesday, March 29, the United Nations issued a report, summarized at un.org under the title “Half of world’s poorest countries can escape poverty by 2020.” According to the report, which was produced by the Group of Eminent Persons appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, half the world’s 48 least developed countries (LDCs) can “graduate” out of Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Ban Ki-moon, Children, Clients, Conference, Economic development, Education, Ending Poverty, Events, Financial services, Istanbul, LDC, LDC Conference, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Savings, School fee loans, School Proprietor Loans, Schools, small business loans, Turkey, UN, UN Report, UN Secretary-General, UNDP, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme
You’re Invited on a Tanzanian Adventure
You’ve read about it on our blog, now see the impact of Opportunity’s microfinance work firsthand. Opportunity International leads a dozen or more Insight Trips every year to meet our clients, staff and see how our work helps individuals and families create change in their lives. July 30-August 6, 2011 Travel with young professionals and Read more…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Clients, conference call, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Ross Nathan, Tanzania, Travel, videos, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Ambassador Tony Hall Fasts to Bring Attention to Global Hunger
“Opportunity International is honored to stand in prayer and fasting with our dear friend, Ambassador Tony Hall. He reminds us that we must begin this work by examining our own hearts, and that together we can bring an end to poverty.” -Bill Morgenstern, CEO, Opportunity International Today, Ambassador Tony Hall, who serves on our Board Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Advocacy, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bill Morgenstern, Bread for the World, budget, Congress, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Faith in Action, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, Food security, Global Poverty, Hunger, hunger fast, Loans, malnutrition, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Conference, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Political advocacy, Poverty, sojourners, Tony Hall
Illinois Congressman Peter Roskam Visits Opportunity’s Microfinance Operations in Ghana
Over the years, Opportunity International has had the honor of hosting a variety of congressional delegations and international dignitaries. Congressman Peter Roskam, a Wheaton, Ill. Republican and House Chief Deputy Whip, traveling with Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush, spent the early part of this week in Ghana, leading a bipartisan fact-finding mission focused on trade, energy and Read more…
Tagged 10000 women initiative, 10k Women, accra, Africa, Agricultural finance, Bank, Banking on Women, Bill Morgenstern, Congress, Education, Emerging Leaders, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Global Poverty, Goldman Sachs, IDP Foundation, IDP Foundation Rising Schools Program, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Millennium Village, Millennium Villages Project, Oak Brook, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Poverty, The Daily Herald, what we're reading
Meet Lydia Opoku, Emerging Leaders Program
Lydia Opoku of Opportunity International UK talks about how the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Emerging Leaders Program is equipping women with the power to achieve great success in their own countries. Of Emerging Leaders, she says, “To bring women from different backgrounds, women from different countries, together to learn and share from each other is Read more…
Tagged 10000 women initiative, 10k Women, Africa, Banking on Women, Education, Emerging Leaders, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Goldman Sachs, Loan Officer, local staff, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity UK, Poverty, Training, videos, Women
Our Prayers Are With the People of Japan
In the days since the 8.9-magnitude earthquake (which was upgraded to 9.0) struck Japan on Friday, March 11, followed by the devastating tsunami, we at Opportunity, like the entire world, have been watching the scenes of destruction and listening to reports in the media, incredulous and deeply saddened by the news. It seems astonishing that Read more…
Tagged BBC, Community, Earthquake, Events, Global Giving, Japan, natural disasters, new york times, NPR, Prayer, Red Cross, Tsunami, Unicef, Washington Post, what we're reading, World Vision
What We’re Reading: ONE Blog–”1 percent: A matter of life and death”
The following post, “1 percent: A matter of life and death” by Malaka Gharib, was published on the ONE Blog on March 4, 2011. It encourages readers to take action to let the government know that they oppose budget cuts for people living in poverty around the world. The ONE Campaign needs around 4,000 more names Read more…
Tagged Advocacy, Blog, Blogging, budget, Congress, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, foreign aid, Foreign assistance, GDP, Global Fund, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Global Poverty, global security, Government, Guest Post, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention, humanitarian, Malaria, Microfinance, natural disasters, ONE, ONE blog, ONE Campaign, Opportunity International, peace, PEPFAR, petition, Political advocacy, Poverty, senator, Tuberculosis, US Government, USAID
