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What Makes a Good Father? Opportunity Colombia’s Chief Transformation Officer on Fatherhood and the Male Trust Group Project
Happy Father’s Day! As we celebrate with the fathers in our lives today, we’re examining what qualities make a good dad. For a group of our clients in a pilot project in Colombia, they’re examining that question in depth, and developing their leadership skills as men and fathers. In the post below, Jim Frantz, Opportunity Read more…
Tagged Children, Clients, Colombia, Community, Faith in Action, Family, Father's Day, Fathers, God, Jim Frantz, Latin America, local staff, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, Proverbs, spouses, Training, Trust Group, wife
Happy Mother’s Day! Meet Mother & Kenyan Staff Member Betty Mutua
Betty Mutua, Regional Relationship Officer at Opportunity Kenya and a mother of two, visited the U.S. last month and spoke to us about the challenges and triumphs of being a mom while working full-time and going to school. We were so inspired by the grace with which Betty handles the universal challenges of being a Read more…
Tagged Africa, Betty Mutua, Family, Global Opportunity Quilt, international staff, International Visitor, Kenya, local staff, Microfinance, Mother's Day, Mothers, Nairobi, Opportunity International, Opportunity Kenya, regional relationship officer, videos, Women
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
On behalf of Opportunity International‘s global family, we wish you all the joy, peace, love and blessings of Christmas. More than ever, we’re grateful for your ongoing support of our work, which helps empower our clients and provides life-changing opportunity to their families. Below, please watch a special Christmas message featuring our clients from Malawi, Read more…
Tagged Advent, Christmas, Clients, Colombia, Community, Ending Poverty, Family, India, Malawi, Mexico, Opportunity International, peace, videos, Women
Empowerment through Microfinance–Meeting Rwandan Microfinance Client Dorosera Mukagahima
Dorosera Mukagahima made our long two-hour bus ride worth the trek to her remote village. She’s the elected treasurer in her Trust Group of about 30, mostly women. In her business she buys and sells goats—about three at a time. She proudly told us of her sturdy mud brick home with a metal roof, situated Read more…
Tagged Africa, Banking on Africa, Banking on Africa Campaign, Banking on Africa Insight Trip 2011, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Family, Financial services, Genocide, Insight Trip, Loans, mark lutz, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Rwanda, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Rwanda, Trust Groups, Uganda, Women
What We’re Watching: New Short Film by MicroEnsure on Cashless & Low-Cost Health Insurance in India
The following video was published in a blog post on microensure.com on June 14. MicroEnsure, a subsidiary of Opportunity International, is the world’s first microinsurance intermediary, and it serves people living in poverty with innovative products in crop, loan, health, life and property insurance, offering clients and their families a safety net when an unexpected Read more…
Chicago Event: Empowering Women and Rebuilding Afghanistan
I frequently visit the Chicago Council on Global Affairs website to peruse their schedule of multidisciplinary programs, always hoping to find programs on microfinance. When I saw that the Women and Global Development Forum was hosting a program called Rebuilding Afghanistan: A Civilian and Military Perspective, I knew it would be an event not to Read more…
Tagged afghanistan, Canada, Chicago, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Children, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Events, Family, Financial services, global security, Government, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, nation-building, NGO, Opportunity International, peace, Poverty, Women, Women and Development Forum, women for women international, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, Women's rights, WON, Zainab Salbi
What Are Your New Year’s Resolutions?
Around the office at Opportunity-US, our staff are gearing up today for the first work day of 2011! And we’ve got a lot of New Year’s resolutions to make this year great–some are big, some are small. Here now are just a few of our goals for 2011: Put my clothes away every single day instead Read more…
Tagged Chicago, Children, faith, Family, New Year, New year's resolutions, Opportunity International, Opportunity-US, Prayer, staff
Local Event: Investment in Women, the Power of the “Multiplier Effect”
On Monday, December 6, at the Nineteenth Century Club in Oak Park, Ill., Betsy Perdue, co-chair of the Women’s Opportunity Network (WON), shared about the ‘multiplier effect’ and how it increases the social and economic impact of microfinance on women in the developing world, as she led a program called “Education, Microfinance and Empowered Women.” The concept of the multiplier effect is Read more…
Tagged Betsy Perdue, Business, Children, Clients, Community, Community development, Education, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, Events, Families, Family, Financial services, Giving opportunities, Global Philanthropy, Investing in Women and Girls, Microfinance, Multiplier effect, Nonprofit, Oak Park, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, Philanthropy, Poverty, Trust Groups, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
