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Meet Our Staff: A Closing Interview with AJ Renold as He Prepares to Leave Tanzania
AJ Renold, mountain trekker, pizza maker, kite surfer, manager of business development and donor relations for Opportunity International Tanzania, hails from Chicago, Ill. He joined Opportunity-US as an intern in their suburban Oak Brook headquarters in 2009. That summer, he helped plan and traveled on the first-ever Young Ambassadors Insight Trip to Tanzania. AJ quickly Read more…
Tagged Abbi Antablin, Africa, AJ Renold, Arusha, Blogging, Dar es Salaam, Financial services, Insight Trip, international staff, Meet Our Staff, MFI, Microfinance, Mount Kilimanjaro, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Peter Olivier, Ross Nathan, Social Media, Swahili, Tanzania, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tanzania Reporter: Our Day at Arusha’s Faraja Center for Young Women
Reporting back from the recent YAO Insight Trip to Tanzania, Tanzania Correspondent Contest winner Kelly Flanagan shares photos from the community service day she and her fellow travelers spent at the Faraja Young Women Development Unit in Arusha. The Faraja Center is a residential facility that helps rehabilitate young female victims of human trafficking, offering them vocational Read more…
Tagged 2011 YAO Insight Trip, Africa, AJ Renold, Arusha, Banking on Women, Community, community service, Education, Ending Poverty, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Opportunity-US, Poverty, Tanzania, Training, Women, Women's Philanthropy, YAO, YAO-Chicago, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth
You’re Invited on a Tanzanian Adventure
You’ve read about it on our blog, now see the impact of Opportunity’s microfinance work firsthand. Opportunity International leads a dozen or more Insight Trips every year to meet our clients, staff and see how our work helps individuals and families create change in their lives. July 30-August 6, 2011 Travel with young professionals and Read more…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Clients, conference call, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Ross Nathan, Tanzania, Travel, videos, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
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…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Bank Building, Branch staff, Christmas, Dar es Salaam, Ending Poverty, Faith in Action, Financial services, Ilala, India, Loan Officer, Loans, local staff, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Institution, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Rwanda, Savings, Tanzania, Urwego Opportunity Bank of Rwanda, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Zambia
Supporting Youth Groups with Microloans in Tanzania
AJ Renold, Opportunity Tanzania’s multimedia YAO reporter on the ground, sends us this report about a pilot microlending program for a Tanzanian youth group. This past Friday, Opportunity Tanzania lending staff visited the NGAO Youth Group, a group supported by Youth Initiatives Tanzania (YITA), to assess their business for the capacity for a loan. This Read more…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Children, Clients, Community, Dar es Salaam, Education, Financial services, HIV/AIDS, Loans, Microfinance, Microloans, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Schools, Students, Tanzania, Training, Trust Groups, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth
YAO Goes to Boot Camp
On Saturday, May 15, 33 young professionals gathered in Minneapolis, Minn. for the first-ever YAO Boot Camp. The group spent the afternoon learning how to turn their knowledge of microfinance into action through a series of discussions and presentations. YAO-Minneapolis member Riley Powell gave a lively, interactive presentation on the ABC’s of microfinance and the work of Opportunity Read more…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Board of Governors, David Makanza, Education, Insight Trip, Liesel Pritzker, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, OptINnow, Poverty, Students, Tanzania, Technology, Twitter, YAO, YAO-Minneapolis, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Arusha Bank Branch Opens in Tanzania
This week, Opportunity announces the launch of its Tanzanian clients on OptINnow.org. AJ Renold, our multimedia YAO reporter on the ground with Opportunity Tanzania, had the opportunity to travel to Arusha in March to attend the opening ceremony for its flagship bank branch, and he shares with us the story of this significant event… Thursday, Read more…
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, Arusha, Branch Manager, Branch staff, CEO, Clients, Dar es Salaam, David Makanza, Education, Francis Pelekamoyo, Insight Trip, Isidore Shirima, Loan Officers, Loans, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, OptINnow, Peter Olivier, Poverty, Savings, Students, Tanzania, Trust Groups, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth
