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Opportunity International’s Staff Celebrates Our Moms
This Mother’s Day, Opportunity International’s staff is joining the Invest in One. Honor Mom. campaign to celebrate the important women in our lives. We’ve honored our mothers, sisters, wives, friends, and mentors – even our 4 legged friends joined in to create tributes patches! Here is a glimpse at Opportunity International’s Mother’s Day messages. To Read more…
Living Below the Line with My Family
“I’m going to send my grandchildren a food parcel.” – my mother “Can I give you a loan so you can buy more food? Very low interest rate, you can pay me back over the next month.” – my boss “Would you like to come over for dinner – is that allowed?” – my friend Read more…
Living and Giving with Reckless Abandon
Opportunity International supporter Deyl Kearin knows a little something about adventure. Last October, Deyl set out to run 250 kilometers across the Sahara Desert to raise money for Opportunity’s clients working their way out of poverty around the world. As part of the Sahara Race, Deyl braved the heat of the desert for six days Read more…
Microinsurance Expanded through New Strategic Investors
Opportunity International announced today that it had divested its majority stake in microinsurance organization MicroEnsure. This will bring additional capital and relationships in order to scale the successful MicroEnsure microinsurance model to serve even more clients in poverty with crop, health, life and property insurance products. New investors in MicroEnsure include International Finance Corporation (IFC), Read more…
Tagged Asia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Clients, Eastern Europe, Financial Times, Gates Foundation, International finance corporation, Microensure, Microinsurance, Omidyar Network, Opportunity International, Poverty, Richard Leftley, sustainable finance award, telecommunications, Telenor Group, Vicki Escarra
What We’re Watching: Documentary Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide on PBS
We’re tuning in tonight to PBS to watch the long-awaited documentary, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. (Airing in two parts, tonight and tomorrow, October 1 and 2, at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT.) With Nicholas Kristof as your guide, as well as Sheryl WuDunn, Hillary Clinton, and activist celebrities America Read more…
Tagged Cambodia, Children, Community, documentary, DR Congo, Education, Ending Poverty, Global Poverty, Half the Sky Movement, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, maternal mortality rates, Microfinance, Mothers, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity DRC, Opportunity International, PBS, Sheryl WuDunn, Sierra Leone, strategic partners, what we're watching, Women, women's empowerment
What We’re Watching: Banking on Education in Ghana
Forty-six million African children have never set foot in a classroom. That’s why we offer education finance initiatives in Malawi, Uganda and in Ghana, where access to school fee loans and school proprietor loans help to create a better future for children and educators at local neighborhood schools. Get to know why we work in Read more…
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Children, Clients, Community, Education, Education finance, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Global Poverty, India, Loan Officer, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Samrit Academy, Savings, School fee loans, School Proprietor Loans, Schools, Students, Students of the World, Teachers, Training, Uganda, videos, what we're watching
The Passing of Ross Clemenger, a Pioneer of Opportunity Colombia
We were saddened to learn that one of ’s earliest supporters, Ross Clemenger, died unexpectedly on Sunday morning at the age of 88. More than forty years ago, Ross helped Opportunity make its first loan to client Carlos Moreno in Colombia, and the Canadian native was the first executive director and the founder of AGAPE, Read more…
Tagged agape, Carlos Moreno, Clients, Colombia, Ending Poverty, faith, Faith in Action, Financial services, Global Poverty, God, Implementing Members, In memoriam, Jim Frantz, Latin America, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mitzi Machado, Opportunity Canada, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, Poverty, Ross Clemenger, support members, Transformation
What We’re Reading: ONE Blog on Horn of Africa Conference Call with Dikembe Mutombo, Cindy McCain, K’naan
On Friday, Aug. 26th, ONE hosted a conference call with Cindy McCain, musician K’naan and NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo about the famine in the Horn of Africa, answering ONE members’ questions and discussing news from the ground. Below, see the post on the ONE Blog about the call. “How can we help?” That was the question Read more…
Tagged Africa, conference call, Drought, East Africa, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, famine, Financial services, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Global Poverty, guest blog, Hunger, MFI, Microfinance, ONE, ONE blog, Opportunity International, refugee, refugee camp, Twitter, World Food Programme
What We’re Reading: Top 10 Blogs About Microfinance & Poverty Eradication
Blogs are a great way to hear a variety of voices and experience an issue from diverse perspectives and if you’re interested in microfinance and global development there are a variety of sites full of information, opinions, and more. These blogs, like our Opportunity Blog, are fun ways to learn more about the voices and Read more…
Tagged Accion, Asia, banking with the poor network, Blog, Blogging, Blogs, Center for Financial Inclusion, CGAP, Community, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, Defeat Poverty, Financial services, global development, Global Poverty, Grameen Foundation, India, India Microfinance, MFI, Microfinance, MicroFinance Transparency, Mykro, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Poverty, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal
