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Two Days of Discovery in Uganda

By Ruth-Anne Renaud on February 8, 2010

Cynthia Greenwood, Opportunity’s public relations specialist, and I recently traveled to Uganda and Kenya to capture the stories of Opportunity’s clients, programs, loan officers and services. We started our trip in Kampala, Uganda, where we spent two days discovering the intersections amongst our clients: a school proprietor, a Trust group, marketplace vendors, and children that Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Loans, Local Staffing, Microinsurance, Our Mission and Vision, Rural Outreach, Savings, Training, Trust Groups, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged AIDS, Banking on Education, Children, Client Stories, Clients, Education, Financial services, Kenya, Loan Officers, Loans, Savings, School, School fee loans, Training, Trust Group, Uganda, Women

Melinda Gates Highlights Opportunity International

By Rob Meloche on January 29, 2010

Earlier this week, Opportunity International was honored to host Melinda Gates as she visited some of our clients and experienced our banking services in Malawi. With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Opportunity is expanding access to savings accounts, loans, training and insurance to people struggling to work their way out of Read more…

Posted in Microinsurance, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Rural Outreach, Savings, Strategic Partners
Tagged Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Davos, Financial Access, Health, Healthcare, Malawi, Melinda Gates, Mobile Banking, Rural banking, Savings, Savings account, World Economic Forum

The Gift of Health

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on December 15, 2009

Very often, we take health for granted. While the healthcare debate rages in Washington D.C. and around the U.S., the majority of us have health insurance, or at least have access to medical care in the case of an emergency. People in the developing world, however, do not often have the luxury of health insurance Read more…

Posted in Microinsurance, Our Work
Tagged Client Stories, Health insurance, Healthcare, Medical care, Microensure

#Mifimon: BRAC’s "Microfinance Plus" Approach

By Ruth-Anne Renaud on November 11, 2009

The following is a guest post by Jessica Elisberg from Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX). Interested in learning about microfinance? Follow our biweekly Twitter discussion group #mifimon (because Microfinance Mondays was too long for Twitter’s 140-character limit!) The aim is to host an exchange of ideas about issues relevant to the microfinance industry. You’re welcome to Read more…

Posted in Microinsurance, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work
Tagged #MifiMon, Agriculture, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, BRAC, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Health, Human Rights, Microensure, Microfinance Plus, Microinsurance, OptINnow, Sustainability, Twitter

Spotlight from the Field: Filipino Farmers Weather Life’s Typhoons

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on November 5, 2009

Having been ravaged by four back-to-back typhoons, the Philippines is enduring a humanitarian crisis on a national scale. Farmers have lost entire crops, families have lost thriving businesses and community members have had to lean on one another for support. The good news is that MicroEnsure, Opportunity International’s microinsurance subsidiary, and TSKI, one of Opportunity’s Read more…

Posted in Loans, Microinsurance, Our Work
Tagged Crop insurance, Farmers, MFI, Microensure, Microinsurance, Philippines, Smallholder farmer, TSKI

#Mifimon: Microfinance in Your Backyard

By Amy Carol Wolff on October 5, 2009

Twitter folks present (in alphabetical order): @AJRenold, @amycarolwolff, @Grameen_DC, @ianscotthaisley, @lethalsheethal, @lend4health, @optinnow, @rarenaud, @robgarciasj, @savetogether This week’s call to action: Find an article on U.S. microfinance and post it as a response to this blog and on our #Mifimon facebook page. Have a conversation with a friend or colleague about U.S. microfinance and tell Read more…

Posted in Loans, Microinsurance, Our Work, Technology, Training
Tagged #MifiMon, Accion, Activists, Banking, Education, Financial services, Grameen America, Lend 4 Health, Microfinance, OptINnow, Poverty, Training, Twitter, Women's Philanthropy

Live: Do the World’s Poor Deserve Insurance? #BOG09

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on October 3, 2009

MicroEnsure‘s Ryan Lynch, Special Project Manager, held a town hall meeting today. He was the politician. The topic was healthcare. Except it wasn’t held in the cornfields of Iowa, it was the slums of India. This mock town hall meeting was held in honor of the poor in India who do not have access to Read more…

Posted in Microinsurance, Our Work, Where We Work
Tagged #BOG09, Healthcare, India, Insurance, Microensure, Ryan Lynch

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