Clemencia Alcerro is an Opportunity loan client from Tagucigalpa, Honduras. She runs a business grinding corn meal to sell.

As you sit down to the Thanksgiving table this year, no doubt you’ll be thinking about what makes you thankful. Maybe you’re grateful for your family, your friends, good health, or a great Thanksgiving dinner.

At Opportunity, our staff is grateful for these blessings but we’re also incredibly thankful for our clients.

We feel privileged to partner with over two million hardworking people in more than 20 countries, offering them access to loans, savings, training and insurance products that empower them to grow businesses, plan for the future, and ensure the health and well-being of their families and their communities. So that they too have much to be thankful for.

They inspire us every day, and remind us that a small opportunity can make a big difference in the lives of people in the developing world.

Thank you for your ongoing support of Opportunity’s working solution to global poverty.

In honor of Thanksgiving, take a moment to watch “Harvesting Hope.” Learn how smallholder farming clients in Africa use agricultural finance from Opportunity to improve their lives and feed their children:

Through financial services like crop insurance and loans, clients like Jakob are better able to protect their futures. Read Jakob’s story, watch the “Harvesting Hope” video about Opportunity’s agriculture finance program, and explore our 2009 Annual Report for links to stories, videos and more information about Jakob and our microfinance work all around the world. Learn how we’re Helping Communities Thrive by providing financial access to over two million economically marginalized people in more than 20 countries. It’s more than microfinance: it’s a working solution to global poverty.