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When Disaster Strikes, Access to Savings Can Help
The following post was published on Opportunity International Australia‘s blog in January. Read original post here. The recent onslaught of flooding around the globe has highlighted the devastating impact natural disasters can have on people regardless of where they live. The damage to homes and livelihoods, however, is particularly felt when victims have no form of financial security. Read more…
Tagged Australia, Bank Building, Clients, Community, Deposits, Ending Poverty, Financial services, flood, floods, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance Institution, microsavings, natural disasters, opportunity australia, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Australia, Philippines, Poverty, Savings, Savings account, The Philippines
Give Yourself the Gift of Insight in 2011
An Opportunity International Insight Trip is one of the most inspiring, significant travel experiences you will ever have. On an Insight Trip you will… Meet our hardworking clients and dedicated local staff in person See the impact Opportunity has on communities Travel on special side trips and excursions like safaris We have big travel plans in 2011. Read more…
Tagged Africa, Board of Governors, Clients, Colombia, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, India, Insight Trip, Insight Trips, International Women's Day, Kenya, Loan Officer, Loans, local staff, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Philippines, Poverty, Rwanda, Tanzania, Travel, Uganda, Women's Opportunity Network, WON, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
In Closing: Ambassador Tony Hall and More Conclude the Microfinance Conference
“Remember when you leave here all the voices of the people we have met. We are called into community, a community without borders.” – Wendy Cox, Opportunity’s VP of donor experience, introducing the final plenary session of the Fall Microfinance Conference We began the final plenary session of the 2010 Fall Microfinance Conference[/intlink] with Ambassador Tony Read more…
Tagged 2010 fall microfinance conference, Conference, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, mark lutz, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Opportunity International Microfinance Conference, OptINnow, Philippines, Poverty, Tony Hall, unpoverty
What We’re Reading: “The Silent Crisis” and Violence in Mozambique
In light of last week’s riots in Mozambique in which 13 people were killed, this post entitled “The Silent Crisis,” published on Opportunity Australia’s blog more than two weeks ago, has even more resonance. This prescient blog post highlighted the concerns over food security and increases in food prices for economically marginalized people living in extreme poverty all Read more…
Tagged Africa, Blog, Blogs, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Financial Times, food, Food security, Food Sustainability, Global Poverty, IMF, India, international monetary fund, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mozambique, opportunity australia, Opportunity Blog, Opportunity International, opportunity mozambique, Philippines, Poverty, South Africa
Here’s a Meaningful Easter Gift Idea
Are you looking for a special gift to put in your child’s or grandchild’s Easter basket amidst the brightly colored eggs and chocolates? Consider an OptINnow gift card (starting at just $25) to help teach youngsters about the importance of giving back out of the many blessings your family has received. Later that day, spend a Read more…
Tagged Business Loan, Children, Colombia, Easter, Entrepreneurs, Ghana, Gift Cards, Gift Idea, Holiday, Kenya, Mexico, OptINnow, Philippines
Spotlight from the Field: Filipino Farmers Weather Life’s Typhoons
Having been ravaged by four back-to-back typhoons, the Philippines is enduring a humanitarian crisis on a national scale. Farmers have lost entire crops, families have lost thriving businesses and community members have had to lean on one another for support. The good news is that MicroEnsure, Opportunity International’s microinsurance subsidiary, and TSKI, one of Opportunity’s Read more…
Tagged Crop insurance, Farmers, MFI, Microensure, Microinsurance, Philippines, Smallholder farmer, TSKI
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…
Opportunity Clients “Living Green”
One thing that I love about Opportunity International is that we listen to our clients. And when it comes to living sustainably, it’s a good thing we are because there is a lot to learn! In honor of Blog Action Day, I’d like to share what we are learning. As Opportunity expands its services into Read more…
Tagged Agriculture, Blog Action Day, Clients, Community, Community Based Entrepreneurship Development Program, Ending Poverty, environmental sustainability, Farmer, Living Green, Malawi, Opportunity Bank in Malawi, Opportunity International, Philippines, Poverty
The Power of Mobile Money
The microfinance world was buzzing this week about the latest edition of The Economist (9/24/09), which features a special report on the “power of mobile money.” According to Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, the mobile phone has become “the single most transformative tool for development.” A number of innovative uses for the phone Read more…
Tagged Africa, Economist, G-Cash, Information and communications technology, Kenya, M-banking, M-PESA, Malawi, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Mobile Phones, Opportunity Kenya, Philippines, Safaricom, Smart Money, Tanzania, WIZZIT
