Subscribe via RSS
Subscribe via EmailBlog Archives
What We’re Reading: “To Fight Poverty, Invest in Girls” (Time Magazine)
Every Wednesday, we highlight an article, book or a blog in our “What We’re Reading” series, featuring pieces that are noteworthy, inspiring, educational or relevant to the work we do at Opportunity International. We welcome your comments in the comment field below–-tell us what you’re reading, or respond to the piece we’ve highlighted. The following post Read more…
Tagged Banking on Education, Children, Community, Dominican Republic, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Girls, India, Investing in Women and Girls, Malaria, Malawi, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Students, Time Magazine, Uganda, United Nations, WFP, what we're reading, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON, World Bank, World Food Programme
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
Leading the Way in Agricultural Microfinance
Seventy percent of the 1.4 billion people living in extreme poverty (surviving on less than $1.25 per day) live in rural areas. Two years ago, Opportunity International launched the Banking on Africa campaign, a cutting-edge strategy to address rural poverty by expanding access to financial services in rural areas and to develop an agricultural finance Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bank Building, Banking on Africa, Community, Crop insurance, Ending Poverty, Farmers, Financial services, Food security, IFAD, IFAD rural poverty report, Loans, market linkages, Markets, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rural Outreach, Savings, Smallholder farmer, Training, Weather-index crop insurance
When Disaster Strikes, Access to Savings Can Help
The following post was published on Opportunity International Australia‘s blog in January. Read original post here. The recent onslaught of flooding around the globe has highlighted the devastating impact natural disasters can have on people regardless of where they live. The damage to homes and livelihoods, however, is particularly felt when victims have no form of financial security. Read more…
Tagged Australia, Bank Building, Clients, Community, Deposits, Ending Poverty, Financial services, flood, floods, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Institution, microsavings, natural disasters, opportunity australia, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Australia, Philippines, Poverty, Savings, Savings account, The Philippines
Meet the Dedicated Individuals Jumping for Opportunity
On February 18-20 in Orlando, Fla., 25 Opportunity International supporters are jumping out of a plane at 18,000 feet to alleviate poverty in Tanzania. This dedicated group includes passionate business leaders and young entrepreneurs. Among them are CEOs Ryan Allis, author of the book Zero to One Million: How I Built a Company To $1 Million in Sales and How You Can Read more…
Tagged Africa, author, Bill Morgenstern, BusinessWeek, CEO, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Events, Families, Financial services, Florida, fundraisers, Future of Entrepreneurship Summit, Global Poverty, Jump for Opportunity, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, OptINnow, Orlando, Poverty, Tanzania, Technology, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
ONE Blog: “In Davos, a keen understanding of Africa’s economic potential”
The following post was published on the ONE Blog on Wednesday, Jan. 26. To read the original post by ONE contributor Tom Wallace, click here. Some of the world’s most influential people from business, academia, culture and politics are currently descending on the Swiss mountain town of Davos for the 2011 World Economic Forum (WEF). Read more…
Tagged Africa, Blogging, Community, Davos, Economic development, Ending Poverty, Events, Financial services, Guest Post, IMF, international monetary fund, Microfinance, ONE, ONE blog, ONE Campaign, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Poverty, Switzerland, Technology, World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum on Africa
My Call to Serve Opportunity International
This blog post was written by Opportunity Marketing Intern Emily Reavis about her fall 2010 trip to see the work of Opportunity Ghana. When our plane took off from Chicago O’Hare, it finally hit me. “Wow, I’m actually on my way to Africa right now.” I knew this trip would be everything I was told it Read more…
Tagged accra, Africa, Chicago, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Insight Trip, MFI, Microfinance, Trust Groups, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
