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A Call for Sustainable Development on Oct. 17, United Nations Poverty Eradication Day
“People living in poverty face increasingly difficult challenges as climate change, environmental degradation and rising food prices threaten their livelihoods and survival.” -United Nations’s Division for Social Policy and Development Today, October 17, is the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) and this year’s theme is “From Poverty to Sustainability: People Read more…
Tagged Agricultural finance, Alliance to End Hunger, Clients, Climate Change, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Food security, Global Poverty, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, John Magnay, Julie Howard, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Richard Leftley, The Philippines, Tony Hall, United Nations, USAID, Weather-index crop insurance
Ohio State Students Break Bread to Fight Poverty
The following is a guest blog post by Megan Colgan, a senior undergraduate student at Ohio State University and a former Opportunity intern: Appetizers galore, tasty homemade meatloaf, a giant platter filled with an assortment of vibrantly colored roasted vegetables, scrumptious cookies and brownies, and more… Mouth watering yet? Mine sure was. I proudly looked at Read more…
Tagged Breaking Bread, breaking bread for microfinance, Campus, campus coordinators, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, MFI, Microfinance, Ohio State University, Opportunity International, Poverty, Poverty Eradication Day, Schools, Social business, Social Entrepreneurship, Students, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
On World Food Day, Give a Loan, Feed a Family
It makes perfect sense to me that Poverty Eradication Day (Oct. 17) and World Food Day (Oct. 16) are just a day apart. Hunger is a direct result of poverty, so if we can help eradicate poverty, we can also make sure that people everywhere have enough to eat. Today, one-sixth of all humanity suffers Read more…
Will You Take a Stand?
On October 17th, will you take a stand to support International Day for the Eradication of Poverty? For the next 5 days we’ve issued a challenge. 1. On behalf of the 2.6 billion people that live in abject poverty, we are asking at least 26 people per day to purchase a virtual patch on the Read more…
Global Opportunity Quilt: Eradicating Poverty One Piece At a Time
Take a stand against Global Poverty on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Oct. 17 Did you know that everyday 2.6 billion people will wake up wondering how they’re going to feed, clothe and house their families on less than $2 a day? And have you heard that everyday 25,000 children—that’s one child Read more…
