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Meet Flora Mgombewa, Emerging Leaders Program, Opportunity Tanzania
Flora Mgombewa is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Emerging Leaders Program and works for Opportunity Tanzania. Of the Emerging Leaders Program, Flora says, “I received training here to go out and improve what I was doing before. I’m going to teach [my clients] how to save.” Would you like to meet Tanzanian Read more…
Tagged 10000 women initiative, Africa, Banking on Women, contest, Emerging Leaders, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Facebook, Financial services, Goldman Sachs, Insight Trip, Loan Officer, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Social Media, Tanzania, videos, Women, Women's Philanthropy
Supporting Smallholder Farmers and Laying the Groundwork to End Hunger
To end hunger, we need to grow more food in the developing world. But as we all know, before you plant the seeds, you must prepare the soil. In order to grow more food in the developing world, we must invest in agricultural training, infrastructure and systems that will empower farmers, countries and continents to Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Congress, Ending Hunger, Feed the Future Guide, Food security, Hunger, hunger fast, John Magnay, Opportunity International, President Bush, President Obama, Rajiv Shah, rural savings, Smallholder farmer, Tony Hall, U.S. Ambassador, UN, USAID
What We’re Watching: Meet Alice Norah Lajwa, Emerging Leader from Opportunity Uganda
Banking on Women: Alice Norah Lajwa from Opportunity International on Vimeo. Alice Norah Lajwa of Opportunity Uganda is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Emerging Leaders Program. Alice says, “What I’ve learned in this program will help me transform the lives of my women clients. [...] I try to encourage women to save. Read more…
Tagged 10000 women initiative, 10k Women, Africa, Banking on Women, Clients, Community, create change, Education, Emerging Leaders, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Goldman Sachs, Loan Officer, local staff, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Professional training, Savings, Training, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
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
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
What We’re Watching: Bill Gates On Aspirational & Actionable 2011 Annual Letter
I believe it is in the rich world’s enlightened self-interest to continue investing in foreign aid. If societies can’t provide for people’s basic health, if they can’t feed and educate people, then their populations and problems will grow and the world will be a less stable place. –Bill Gates’ 2011 Annual Letter Bill Gates’ third annual Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, food aid, Food security, Gates Foundation, Ghana, Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, Global Poverty, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention, Loans, Malaria, Microfinance, Opportunity International, polio, Poverty, strategic partners, Teaching, vaccines, videos, WFP, what we're reading, Women, World Food Programme
Caterpillar Foundation Extends Corporate Giving Challenge, New $1M Match in 2011 to Reach More with Microfinance
This week, Opportunity International and the Caterpillar Foundation, the charitable arm of global equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., announced the successful culmination of its 2010 Corporate Giving Challenge raising $2 million in total donations. The Foundation also announced a new pledge to match an additional $1 million in new business and corporate donations to Opportunity in 2011. These Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Africa, Banking on Africa, Caterpillar Foundation, Caterpillar Inc., Caterpillar match, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Rwanda, Poverty, Rwanda, Savings, strategic partners, Urwego Opportunity Bank of Rwanda, Will Ball
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
What We’re Watching: At Davos, Bill Gates and the Needs of the Developing World
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg interviews Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 28, 2011. Gates answers viewer questions and addresses the global need for expansive immunization, advanced agricultural techniques and the importance of traveling to see firsthand the needs of the developing world. For this and more, click the screenshot above to watch the Read more…
Tagged Africa, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Davos, Facebook, Gates Foundation, Health, Insight Trip, Melinda Gates, Poverty, Social Media, strategic partners, Switzerland, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, videos, World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum on Africa
