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Finding Renewal Through Faith and Opportunity this Easter

By Emily Riemer on April 8, 2012

Blessings to you and your family from the entire Opportunity International family. This Easter, as we commemorate Jesus’s crucifixion and celebrate His resurrection, I’m reminded that resurrection need not only mean the miracle that occurred 2,000 years ago, but that renewal can take place in a number of ways in our own lives. Nothing that Read more…

Posted in Events, Faith in Action, Loans, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Where We Work
Tagged annual report 2009, Client Stories, Clients, Colombia, displaced persons, Easter, faith, Faith in Action, Financial services, God, healing, Holiday, Hope, Insight Trip, International Visitor, Jesus Christ, Latin America, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, Poverty, resurrection, women clients

Christmas Blessings from Opportunity Colombia

By Opportunity International on December 24, 2011

The clients and staff of Opportunity Colombia have prepared a special Christmas message. The Opportunity family wishes you a joyous Christmas and a new year full of hope.

Posted in Events, Faith in Action, Local Staffing, Our Leadership, Where We Work
Tagged Advent, Christmas, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Hope, Loan Officer, MFI, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, scripture, The Bible, videos

Day 2: Tales of Transformation in a Bogotá Trust Group

By Guest Post on June 22, 2011

The following travel post was written by Margaret Gardner, a member of the Opportunity International Board of Governors living in Washington, D.C. Margaret is currently traveling on the Opportunity Family Week Insight Trip to Colombia with her husband David and their children. Her daughter Katherine wrote a blog post from Day 1 of the trip, Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Our Work
Tagged Bogotá, Client Stories, Clients, Colombia, Colombia Family Week Trip 2011, Community, displaced persons, Ending Poverty, Financial services, God, Hope, Jim Frantz, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity Colombia, Opportunity International, Poverty, Training, Transformation, Transformational Training, Trust Groups, Women

Faith, Hope and Love on our Journey to Kenya

By Opportunity International on August 10, 2010

Opportunity’s John Kamperschroer, VP of Resource Development, recently returned from an Opportunity Family Week Trip to Kenya. He shares reflections from his travels. As we traveled along the bumpy roads of Kenya, dust and exhaust coated our lungs while receiving–as one driver put it–an “African massage.” We were on our way to visit three Kenyan schools: Read more…

Posted in Faith in Action, Insight Trips, Loans, Local Staffing, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Children, Clients, Community, Education, Education finance, Ending Poverty, faith, family week trip, Financial services, Hope, Insight Trip, john kamperschroer, Kenya, Loans, Microfinance, Mothers, Opportunity International, Opportunity Kenya, Orphans, Poverty, Schools, Students, Women, Women's Philanthropy, Youth

Women of the Congo: Bringing Hope through Microfinance

By Emily Riemer on June 16, 2010

“It is a war that men have provoked, but women have paid the highest price.” These are the words of a UN peacekeeper in Lisa Jackson’s award-winning documentary, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, a film about the violence and violation faced by women living in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic Read more…

Posted in Our Leadership, Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Banking on Africa, Bill Morgenstern, Board of Directors, CEO, Community, Democratic Republic of Congo, Economic development, Families, Financial services, Global Leadership Team, Hope, Kadita "A.T." Tshibaka, Ken Vander Weele, Mother, Ruth-Anne, Savings, The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo, Trust Group, UN, UN peacekeeper, War, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

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