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Meet Our Staff: A Closing Interview with AJ Renold as He Prepares to Leave Tanzania

By Abbi Antablin on March 16, 2012

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…

Posted in Insight Trips, Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
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

Congratulations to Our Tanzania Correspondent Contest Finalists!

By Emily Riemer on May 13, 2011

Out of all the amazing entries we received in the last month for our Tanzania Correspondent Contest, our judges have made the tough choices and narrowed them down to our top 10. The judges chose people they thought would best use their skills to tell the stories of our Tanzanian women clients on an Insight Read more…

Posted in Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Arusha, Blogging, Client Stories, Clients, contest, Dar es Salaam, Ending Poverty, Financial services, guest blog, Insight Trip, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Social Media, Tanzania, Technology, Women, women clients, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

A New Year for Microfinance in Tanzania

By AJ Renold on January 6, 2011

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…

Posted in Events, Faith in Action, Local Staffing, Our Leadership, Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
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

Mobile Banking Reaches Remote Microfinance Clients in Malawi, Tanzania

By Opportunity International on December 9, 2010

Mobile banking including mobile phone banking continues to be one of the great success stories in poverty alleviation for geographically remote microfinance clients in sub-Saharan Africa. Yesterday, the Bureau of International Information Programs at the U.S. State Department published an online article highlighting the ways in which mobile banking is reaching more geographically remote clients in Tanzania and Read more…

Posted in Bank Building, Microinsurance, Our Leadership, Rural Outreach, Savings, Technology, What We're Reading, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Banking on Africa, CARE, Cell phone banking, Cell Phones, Clients, Dar es Salaam, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Financial Times, Healthcare, Loans, M-banking, M-PESA, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, mobile banking vehicle, mobile phone banking, Mobile Phones, OIBM, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, Opportunity Malawi, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Rural banking, Rural Outreach, Savings, State Department, sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, Technology, USAID

Meet Opportunity Tanzania Microfinance Client Jumanne

By AJ Renold on November 11, 2010

The following report is by AJ Renold, YAO’s multimedia reporter on the ground in Tanzania. In September, I had the privilege of meeting one of Opportunity Tanzania’s most interesting clients. His name is Jumanne and he is truly a special person. Jumanne is in the Trust Group called Tausi Group. Having only finished two loan cycles, he Read more…

Posted in Trust Groups, Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, AJ Renold, blindness, Client Stories, Clients, Dar es Salaam, disabilities, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Loan Officer, Loans, market, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, retail, Tanzania, Trust Groups, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

Spotlight on the Annual Report: Empowering Emerging Women Leaders in Microfinance

By Opportunity International on August 3, 2010

Meet Beatrice William. Beatrice is undergoing training through Opportunity International’s Emerging Leaders Program – part of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women Initiative–which trains talented women in banking and finance to help them establish or advance careers in microfinance as loan officers and bank managers. “When I heard that I had been chosen to come to Nairobi for the Emerging Leaders Read more…

Posted in Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Strategic Partners, Training, What We're Reading, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged 10000 women initiative, 10k Women, 2009 annual report, Africa, annual report, Banking, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Dar es Salaam, Education, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Goldman Sachs, Kenya, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Nairobi, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Tanzania, Training, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Supporting Youth Groups with Microloans in Tanzania

By AJ Renold on July 12, 2010

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…

Posted in Loans, Local Staffing, Our Work, Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
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

Arusha Bank Branch Opens in Tanzania

By AJ Renold on May 20, 2010

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…

Posted in Bank Building, Local Staffing, OptINnow, Our Leadership, Our Work, Where We Work
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

Meeting My First Opportunity Tanzania Microfinance Clients

By AJ Renold on May 17, 2010

Opportunity International is thrilled to announce the launch of Tanzanian clients on OptINnow.org. This is the perfect opportunity for AJ Renold, our multimedia YAO reporter on the ground with Opportunity Tanzania, to share his experience meeting hard-working Tanzanian microfinance clients. Visit OptINnow.org to fund the loan of a client in Tanzania today. I went to interview my first Opportunity Tanzania clients Read more…

Posted in Local Staffing, OptINnow, Trust Groups, Where We Work, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Children, Client Stories, Dar es Salaam, Education, Insight Trip, Loan Officers, Loans, Microfinance, Opportunity International, OptINnow, Poverty, Savings, Students, Tanzania, Trust Groups, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

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