Subscribe to the Blog
Subscribe via RSS
Subscribe via EmailBlog Archives
Back-to-School for Children Living in Poverty
School administrator Jacinta Njoki, of the Wisdom Junior Educational Center in Kenya, works with her students in the schoolyard. She started her school in 2001 with a $375 loan from Opportunity, and now has 150 kids and six teachers. Welcome back to school. It’s an exciting time for kids of all ages: new teachers, new Read more…
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Board of Governors Conference, Children, Clients, Community, Conference, Dominican Republic, Education, Education finance, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, Ghana, IDP Foundation, IDP Foundation Rising Schools Program, India, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Conference, opportunity dominican republic, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity India, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Opportunity Malawi, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Scholarships, School fee loans, School Proprietor Loans, Schools, Students, Uganda, Washington D.C., Youth
Dikembe Mutombo to Appear on “African Voices” Program
NBA star Dikembe Mutombo, member of the Board of Advisors, and champion for improving the lives of people in his home country, the DR Congo, will appear on CNN’s African Voices. The program will air at 7:30 a.m. ET on Saturday, July 31, with two encore presentations to follow on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1:00 p.m., Read more…
Tagged Africa, Board of Advisors, CNN, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dikembe Mutombo, dikembe mutombo foundation, DR Congo, Ellis Island Heritage Award, Ending Poverty, Microfinance Conference, NBA, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference
What We’re Reading: Roger Thurow Encourages Rwandan Farmers to “Keep Up the Momentum”
This week, Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow on Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, posted a blog reporting on an unusual situation for farmers in Kirehe, Rwanda — an agricultural surplus. Thurow examines the situation, interviewing Agnes Kalibata, Rwanda’s minister of agriculture, and discusses the positive impact of USAID’s Feed Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Conference, Enough, Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, Feed the Future Guide, Financial services, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Conference, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, Poverty, Roger Thurow, Rwanda, Savings, Technology, Training, USAID
Global Agriculture and Food Security Program
We are excited about the news that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States, Canada and other countries have launched the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program to help the world’s poorest farmers grow more food and earn more to lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. As part of the worldwide effort Read more…
Tagged Africa, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Farmers, Financial services, Food security, Global Agriculture and Food Policy, Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, Microfinance Conference, Roger Thurow, The MasterCard Foundation, Training, Washington D.C.
Welcome to the Opportunity Microfinance Conference
Welcome to Phoenix. The sun is shining, the hallways of the Scottsdale Resort and Conference Center are filling up, and hopes are high as we begin the Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, hosted by the Opportunity Board of Governors. These next few days promise to be ones brimming with stories. Indeed, the theme of the conference Read more…
