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Uganda Clients Increase Savings
Leveraging creative community outreach, Opportunity International Uganda is helping clients invest in their own futures through savings accounts. In just a few months in 2012, a savings drive launched by Opportunity Uganda increased the value of clients’ deposits by 23%, according to the bank’s CEO, André Lalumière. André attributes the campaign’s success to radio advertising Read more…
Tagged Africa, André Lalumière, bank branch, Banking, Banks, Branch staff, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Impact, Impact newsletter, Kalagi, Kampala, Loan Officers, local staff, Microfinance, Nateete, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Savings, savings drive, Uganda
Starting a New Branch in Kyenjojo, Uganda: Building Community Relationships
is more than just and and business—it’s a way forward for many families with few resources and little hope. Wherever we work, we strive to understand the local communities and to get to know the families who use our resources. This is my fourth in a six-part blog series that explores how we serve the Read more…
Tagged Africa, bank branch, Bank Building, Clients, Financial Access, informal banking, Kyenjojo Blog Series, Kyenjojo branch, Loans, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Portfolios of the Poor, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, Poverty, Savings, Uganda
Understanding the Needs of Farmers in Kyenjojo, Uganda
is more than just and and business—it’s a way forward for many families with few resources and little hope. Wherever we work, we strive to understand the local communities and to get to know the families who use our resources. This is my third in a six-part blog series that explores how we serve the Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, bank branch, cassava, Clients, coffee farmer, Community, crop yields, Drought, Farmer, Kyenjojo Blog Series, Kyenjojo branch, Loans, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Savings, Smallholder farmer, Uganda
Getting to Know the Community
is more than just and and business—it’s a way forward for many families with few resources and little hope. strives to understand the local communities and to get to know the families who are improving their lives through our tools. This is my second post in a multi-part blog series about a new branch in Read more…
Tagged Africa, Bank Building, Clients, Community, Financial services, Kyenjojo Blog Series, Kyenjojo branch, Loans, Microfinance, Mubende, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, subsistence farming, Training, Transformational Training, Uganda
Equipping a Community for Future Success in Kyenjojo, Uganda
is more than just and and business—it’s a way forward for many families with few resources and little hope. Wherever Opportunity works, we strive to understand the local communities and to get to know the families who use our resources. This is the first in a multi-part blog series about a new branch in Kyenjojo, Read more…
Tagged Africa, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Kampala, Kyenjojo Blog Series, Kyenjojo branch, Loans, Microfinance, Mubende, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Savings, Training, Transformation, Transformational Training, Trust Groups, Uganda
The First Day of Summer & Transforming Communities through Solar Power
Today is the first day of summer, the summer solstice, here in the U.S. and our longest day of the year. Hopefully, you’re celebrating tonight with a picnic dinner, a barbeque, maybe an evening run or a walk to take full advantage of the extra minutes of daylight. But today also reminds us of the Read more…
Tagged Africa, Clients, Community, Economic development, Ending Poverty, Financial services, first day of summer, Global Poverty, Iganga, Lady Agnes School, Loans, local economy, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Schools, solar energy, solar panels, solar power, Students, summer, Summer Solstice, Technology, Uganda
Opportunity Staff Updates on Sustainable Energy Initiatives Around the World
Deborah Foy, Opportunity-UK’s International Programmes Director told me that 2012 is the United Nations’s “International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.” In the UN’s own words, “Energy is opportunity. It transforms lives. Economies. The planet.” Opportunity’s clients enjoy some of the world’s sunniest days–but they also experience the darkest nights. Lacking electricity, over a billion Read more…
Tagged Africa, alternative energy, Asia, Clean energy, Clients, Deborah Foy, Earth Day, electricity, Ending Poverty, environmental sustainability, Harry Turner, Jeffrey Lee, Leah Aguirre, Lydia Njoroge, Manfred Kuhn, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Opportunity Kenya, Opportunity Philippines, Opportunity Rwanda, Opportunity South Africa, Opportunity Uganda, Opportunity UK, Opportunity-US, Rolando Victoria, Technology
Solar Panel Loans Offer a Beacon of Light for Ugandan Families
In November, launched a solar energy loan to provide power to families currently living with no or unreliable electricity. Opportunity Uganda is now offering clients like Betty Aute (pictured right), a papyrus weaver and mother of two, a solar panel loan of about $300, which covers panels and installation and is repayable over two years, to Read more…
Tagged Africa, Clients, electricity, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, solar panels, Technology, Uganda
Opportunity Celebrates 40 Years at “Side by Side” Gala in Minneapolis
Last Thursday night, more than 400 guests gathered at International Market Square in Minneapolis, Minn. to celebrate Opportunity International‘s 40th anniversary at a gala event, “Side by Side: Celebrating 40 Years of Opportunity.” The evening included entertainment by Minnesota resident and contemporary Christian singer Sara Groves and the African musical group Duniya Drum and Dance, Read more…
Tagged 40th anniversary, Al Whittaker, Board of Directors, Board of Governors, Colombia, Duniya Drum & Dance, Events, Faith in Action, Frida Mungoma, fundraisers, gala, Minneapolis, Nonprofit, Opportunity Uganda, Philanthropy, Sara Groves, Side by Side, YAO, YAO-Minneapolis, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
