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Opportunity Staff Updates on Sustainable Energy Initiatives Around the World
Deborah Foy, Opportunity-UK’s International Programmes Director told me that 2012 is the United Nations’s “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.” In the UN’s own words, “Energy is opportunity. It transforms lives. Economies. The planet.” Opportunity’s clients enjoy some of the world’s sunniest days–but they also experience the darkest nights. Lacking electricity, over a billion Read more…
Tagged Africa, alternative energy, Asia, Clean energy, Clients, Deborah Foy, Earth Day, electricity, Ending Poverty, environmental sustainability, Harry Turner, Jeffrey Lee, Leah Aguirre, Lydia Njoroge, Manfred Kuhn, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Opportunity Kenya, Opportunity Philippines, Opportunity Rwanda, Opportunity South Africa, Opportunity Uganda, Opportunity UK, Opportunity-US, Rolando Victoria, Technology
#MifiMon: Agricultural Finance–Tapping Into an Untapped Market
Bimonthly, we hold the Mifi Monday Twitter discussion on a number of topics related to microfinance. Next time, on Monday, Sept. 27, 12-2 p.m. CDT (GMT -5), join our discussion on educational finance, including small-scale educational entrepreneurs, and the impact of educational opportunities on all people, especially women and girls. In last Monday’s #mifimon conversation, we delved into agricultural finance[/intlink], issues Read more…
Tagged #MifiMon, Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, alternative energy, andrew koehler, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cell phone banking, Clients, Community, Conference, Daryl Skoog, Education, educational finance, electricity, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Kenya, Loan Officer, Loans, local staff, local staffing, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, mobile banking vehicle, Mobile Phones, Opportunity International, Poverty, power, Satellite bank branch, Schools, solar panels, Students, Technology, the boy who harnessed the wind, Training, Women
