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Photo Journey of Meeting Microfinance Clients in Rwanda and Uganda

By Guest Post on September 7, 2011

Uganda- A young girl (right) welcomes an Opportunity International visitor from the floor of her father’s shop in a Kampala market. Her young father is an enterprising entrepreneur and Trust Group member who runs a small boutique that sells both new and old clothes, mattresses, and small luggage. Business is good, he reports, and he Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Loans, Local Staffing, Rural Outreach, Training, Trust Groups, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Banking on Africa, Banking on Africa Campaign, Banking on Africa Insight Trip 2011, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Genocide, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rwanda, Training, Trust Groups, Uganda

Back to School with a Visit to See Education Finance in Action in Uganda

By Mark Lutz on August 30, 2011

As we head back to school in the U.S., we’re thinking a lot about our educational loan clients and school proprietors around the world, and the impoverished children who are receiving an education because of them. Here, staff member Mark shares what he learned about education finance on his recent visit to a primary school in Kampala, Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Loans, Our Work, Resources, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Back to School, Banking on Africa, Banking on Africa Campaign, Banking on Africa Insight Trip 2011, Children, Clients, Community, Education, Education finance, education microfinance, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Rise and Shine School, School Proprietor Loans, Schools, Students, Uganda, Youth

My First Trust Group Experience, a Traveler’s Report from Uganda

By Guest Post on August 24, 2011

We rose early today and split into two groups with ours visiting a Trust Group in Kampala, which is the bustling capital of Uganda. We meandered down the shopping district, winding our way through an orderly confusion of shops, street vendors and a sea of humanity. It was hot and dry and the red dust Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Loans, Our Work, Resources, Trust Groups
Tagged Africa, Banking on Africa, Banking on Africa Campaign, Banking on Africa Insight Trip 2011, boda boda, Client Stories, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Trust Groups, Uganda

Today, We Celebrate Universal Children’s Day

By Lydia Baldridge Meier on November 20, 2010

Today, Saturday, Nov. 20, is Universal Children’s Day, as set by the United Nations. Time Magazine reports today on a new survey that gives voice to children living in poverty. The Small Voices, Big Dreams survey questioned children ages 10-12, in 30 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Conducted by ChildFund Alliance, a group of global Read more…

Posted in Events, Where We Work
Tagged Banking on Education, ChildFund Alliance, Education, educational finance, educational microfinance, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Kampala, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, Opportunity International, Opportunity Malawi, Opportunity Uganda, Rise and Shine School, Schools, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, United Nations, Universal Children's Day

Spotlight on the Annual Report: Microfinance Helps Communities Thrive

By Opportunity International on August 6, 2010

The Opportunity Progressive Trust Group in Kampala, Uganda provides the perfect example for how Trust Groups[/intlink] can strengthen a community, helping families provide for themselves, send their children to school and build for their futures. Charity Namutebi[/intlink] is an Opportunity Uganda[/intlink] loan officer for the Progressive Trust Group[/intlink]. She says that helping others thrive is her way of serving Read more…

Posted in Faith in Action, Local Staffing, Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Trust Groups, What We're Reading, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Charity Namutebi, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, james kyeune, Kampala, lady infant primary school, Loan Officer, Mariam Noah, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, Nuulu Nankya, Opportunity International, Poverty, progressive trust group, Ruth Nassimbwa, Schools, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Knowledge Leads to Understanding: Getting to Know Uganda

By Guest Post on July 30, 2010

Women’s Opportunity Network (WON)[/intlink] supporter and her 16-year-old nephew contributed this final post about their trip to Uganda, summing up the unforgettable people they met and places they saw on their journey. The Mighty Nile River Debby: is a beautiful country: Winston Churchill described it as “the pearl of Africa” because of its green hills, Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Local Staffing, Our Work, Trust Groups, What We're Reading, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Africa, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Nile River, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Schools, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, University, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Be Inspired: A Traveler Meets Opportunity Uganda’s Microfinance Clients

By Guest Post on July 23, 2010

Debby Farrington, a supporter of the is visiting Uganda with her 16-year-old nephew Matt Statman. Yesterday, Matt sent us about meeting teenage students in Kampala, and today, Debby reports on their visits with Trust Group clients and some very inspiring women entrepreneurs. Today, we visited a meeting and some very special clients of Opportunity Uganda. Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Local Staffing, Our Work, Training, Trust Groups, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Children, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, WON, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

Sending Our Condolences to the Victims of Sunday’s Bombings in Uganda

By Opportunity International on July 12, 2010

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims of the two bombings that took place late Sunday night in Kampala, Uganda. The bombings were done in a synchronized attack on large gatherings of World Cup soccer fans watching the televised final game on outdoor screens. To our knowledge, no Opportunity Uganda Read more…

Posted in Events, Local Staffing, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Children, Community, Invisible Children, Kampala, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Uganda, world cup, Youth

Getting to the Source: Meeting Ugandan Farmers and the Nile River

By Opportunity International on June 3, 2010

by Alexandra Arch, Writer and Uganda Insight Trip Participant The events of the day center on getting to the source. Not only did we trace the chain of coffee production back to the very farmer who planted the seed, but we also arrived at the source of the famed Nile River. Moving out of the Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Loans, Our Work, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Agriculture, Agrifinance, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, boda boda, Coffee, Education, Farmers, Financial services, Insight Trip, Kalagi, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Nile River, Opportunity International, OptINnow, Poverty, Rural lending, Trust Groups, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

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