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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
Ayekoo! Millennium Villages & Opportunity Expand Microfinance in Rural Ghana
Congratulations (Ayekoo) to the clients of Opportunity Ghana. A Millennium Villages Project (MVP) satellite branch has now opened in the small rural community of Datano. The Datano satellite branch is a small outlet located in Ghana’s western region, in the Amansie West District of Ashanti, west of Accra. The branch is staffed by three employees including Read more…
Tagged accra, Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Clients, Community, Earth Institute, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Loan Officer, Loans, MDG, MDG's, MFI, Microfinance, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Promise, Millennium Village, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rural Outreach, Satellite bank branch, Savings, Savings account, Training, Trust Groups, UN Development Programme, Un millennium development goals, UN Millennium Project, United Nations
A New Year for Microfinance in Tanzania
This year at Opportunity Tanzania there were big changes and growth. Among them was the addition of Ross Nathan as the new Chief Operating Officer. Nathan began his work in Tanzania in August, bringing a wealth of knowledge from his 13 years of on-the-ground experience in microfinance operations and strategies in six countries, including setting up regulated Read more…
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