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3 Ways Opportunity International Will Tackle Poverty in Mozambique This Year

By Allison Bearden on March 7, 2013

Opportunity Mozambique is providing over 57,000 impoverished clients with loans, savings and insurance to catalyze sustainable economic development across the country. In 2013, Banco Oportunidade de Moçambique (BOM) will reach more impoverished families through the following three strategies, among others: Investing in Savings Expansion with New Products and Promotions. Savings help protect low-income families against Read more…

Posted in Hunger, Loan officer, Loans, Local Staffing, Microfinance, Our Method, Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Poverty, Rural Outreach, Savings, Technology, Training, Transformation, Where We Work
Tagged Agricultural finance, Clients, Financial Access, Financial services, Mozambique, Savings

Six New Year’s Goals for Us All

By Emily Riemer on January 1, 2013

At Opportunity, we are putting the finishing touches on our personal resolutions and our big organizational goals for 2013. Here are six goals — both small and big — that will inspire us all. Feed more hungry people. Be nice to your mom. Learn a new skill. Educate the next generation. Be a good friend. Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Client Stories, Education, Events, Hunger, Loans, Our Work, Where We Work, Women
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, artisan, Asia, Beatrice Boaten, Chennai, Children, Clients, cocoa farmer, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Honduras, India, Loans, Mercy Senyegah, Mexico, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, New Year, New year's resolutions, Opportunity International, photo blog, photos, Poverty, rice, rice farmer, Richmercy School, Rwanda, south america

Cracking the Code on Food Security: YAO Leader Samantha Snabes Uses Technology to End Hunger

By Emily Riemer on December 28, 2012

“The Opportunity International Conference changed my life,” says Young Ambassador Samantha Snabes. The fall 2011 conference, says the NASA “social entrepreneur in residence,” was the moment when she became inspired to take action to do her part to end global poverty. Shortly thereafter, she became part of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO) and is currently working Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Donors, Events, Hunger, Technology, Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, app, crop yields, crops, David Kone, Dr. Norman Borlaug, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Engineers Without Borders, Financial services, Food security, Geralyn Sheehan, Granada, Hunger, NASA, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Nicaragua, Smallholder farmer, south america, USAID, world food prize, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, yucca, yucca processing plant

Greater Food Security Moves Small-Scale Farmers from Subsistence to Success

By Opportunity International on December 27, 2012

Millions of sub-Saharan Africans lack access to sufficient high-quality food. Even where natural resources are ample, people suffer from chronic malnourishment due to lack of access to financing, quality seed, fertilizer and distribution channels. That’s why Opportunity International is working to increase regional food security by equipping small-scale farmers with the resources they need to Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Client Stories, Hunger, Loans, Local Staffing, Our Work, Poverty, Rural Outreach, Savings
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, fertilizer, Food security, Hunger, input suppliers, kiosks, Loans, malnourishment, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rwanda, satellite branches, Savings, seed, Smallholder farmer, subsistence farming, Uganda, value chain

Show Your Support for Women on Giving Tuesday

By Opportunity International on November 27, 2012

Happy Giving Tuesday to our generous Opportunity International community! Coming right after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday is a unique chance for nonprofits, families and businesses to come together to encourage the spirit of generosity and good will, to start the holiday giving season off right. Learn more about the movement at Read more…

Posted in Events, Fundraisers, Loans, Online Giving, Our Work, Poverty, Rural Outreach, Women
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Clients, Ending Poverty, Eugenie Nyirabagenzi, Financial services, fundraisers, Giving Tuesday, Global Poverty, Loans, Microfinance, One Woman Holiday Challenge, Opportunity International, Opportunity Rwanda, Poverty, Rwamagana, Rwanda, Women, women entrepreneurs

On Thanksgiving and Every Day, We’re Grateful for Clients like Eugenie

By Opportunity International on November 22, 2012

As you gather around the Thanksgiving table, enjoying your time with family and friends, we know you’re grateful for all your blessings. At Opportunity International, we’re grateful for the opportunity to be part of work that empowers clients like Eugenie Nyirabagenzi to feed their families and secure a more hopeful future for themselves and their communities. Eugenie Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Client Stories, Events, Loan officer, Loans, Microinsurance, Our Work, Rural Outreach, Savings, Training, Where We Work, Women
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Client Stories, Clients, Ending Poverty, Eugenie Nyirabagenzi, Farmer, financial literacy training, Financial services, Jean de Dieu Kampayana, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Rwanda, Poverty, rice, Rwamagana, Rwanda, Savings, Thanksgiving, Training, Weather-index crop insurance, Women, women clients

CEO Vicki Escarra Checks in from 2012 Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna

By Vicki Escarra on November 16, 2012

This is an inspiring week as I attended the fourth annual Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna, Austria, where several hundred leaders from the corporate, academic and NGO settings gathered to explore the future of management and its impact on the future of global society. Peter F. Drucker was a management consultant, educator, author and Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Education, Events, Loans, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Our Leadership, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Savings, Strategic Partners, Technology, Training
Tagged Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Austria, Capitalism, Clients, Education, Events, Financial services, Insurance, Loans, Microfinance, Nonprofit, Opportunity International, Peter Drucker Forum, Peter F. Drucker, Poverty, Savings, Technology, Training, Vicki Escarra, Vienna

What We’re Watching: Change Makers and Great Videos at the Global Citizen Festival in New York

By Opportunity International on November 2, 2012

In late September, 60,000 people, including Opportunity supporters from the NYC chapter of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, descended on Central Park for the largest syndicated charity concert in online and broadcast TV history. The Global Poverty Project‘s Global Citizen Festival brought together change makers with artists such as Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, The Read more…

Posted in Education, Events, Poverty, Videos, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Abbi Antablin, Agricultural finance, Alexa Chu, charity concert, Children, Education, Ending Poverty, Events, Financial services, Global citizen, Global Poverty, Global Poverty Project, K'Naan, Loans, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Schools, Students, UN General Assembly, videos, YAO, YAO-New York, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

Today on World Food Day, there’s Hope for an End to Hunger

By Emily Riemer on October 16, 2012

Globally, nearly 870 million people are undernourished–about 12% of the world’s population. It’s World Food Day and social media is buzzing with challenging facts and stats about hunger, like the ones in this post. This information is important. There’s no doubt that it’s one of the great injustices that children anywhere go to bed hungry, that Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Events, Loans, Microinsurance, Our Work, Rural Outreach, Training, Trust Groups
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Children, Community, Crop insurance, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, FAO, Financial services, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food security, Ghana, Global Poverty, IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Loans, Made for Good, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Millennium Development Goals, Opportunity International, Poverty, sub-Saharan Africa, Training, Weather-index crop insurance, Women, World Food Day, World Food Programme, world hunger

Get Revved Up! It’s National Coffee Day

By Lydia Baldridge Meier on September 29, 2012

Today is National Coffee Day in the U.S. and as baristas around the country hand out free cups of joe, we wanted to share with you the faces of some of the people who grow the stuff that fuels our busy lives! Meet Josephat Nivin of Kinyamakobe, Uganda Like many farmers in Uganda, Josephat Nivin Read more…

Posted in Agricultural Finance, Client Stories, Events, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Client Stories, Clients, Coffee, coffee farmer, Community, Ending Poverty, Events, Financial services, Holiday, Loan Officer, Loans, Microfinance, Mubende, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Uganda

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