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Clinton Global Initiative 2012: Momentum on Women’s Empowerment, Global Food Security
The Clinton Global Initiative annual 2012 meeting wrapped up this past Tuesday. This year’s theme, Designing for Impact, provided a three-day podium for today’s leading ideas intent on creating more opportunity and equality in our increasingly interconnected world. This year’s distinguished attendees included President Barack Obama, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, President Joyce Banda (of the Read more…
Tagged Africa, Brad Skeba, CGI, Clinton Global Initiative, Ending Poverty, Events, Felipe Calderon, Food security, Global Poverty, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Movement, Intern, Joyce Banda, Latin America, Malawi, Mexico, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, President Clinton, President Obama, Women, women's empowerment
Lend Your Voice to The Global Appeal for Responsible Microfinance
The following post was originally published on the Center for Financial Inclusion blog by Meghan Greene, Manager of the Microfinance CEO Working Group, the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. Today, in front of the 3,000 attendees of the Convergences 2015 World Forum in Paris, microfinance leaders unveiled the “Global Appeal for Responsible Microfinance,” a landmark Read more…
Tagged Accion, Client Protection Principles, Clients, Ending Poverty, Financial services, FINCA, Freedom from Hunger, Global Poverty, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance CEO Working Group, Millennium Development Goals, Opportunity International, Paris, Poverty, Pro Mujer, Un millennium development goals, VisionFund International, Women's World Banking, World Vision
MicroEnsure Ghana Crosses One Million Milestone for Number of Lives Insured
The following post was originally published on microensure.com. This July , five years after its inception, MicroEnsure Ghana achieved one of its greatest successes: it crossed the milestone of insuring one million Ghanaians, a remarkable achievement considering it was serving just 40,000 lives in 2010. Beginning operations in 2007, MicroEnsure Ghana has held its place Read more…
Tagged Africa, Clients, floods, funeral insurance, Ghana, Health insurance, Insurance, life insurance, Microensure, Microinsurance, Mobile Phones, natural disasters, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Poverty, Savings, Technology, Tigo
Meet Women Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
This past week, our Publications & Media Manager, Cynthia, has been traveling in Ghana to meet clients and staff, see our work in education finance and agricultural finance, and experience firsthand the technology innovations that help us reach many more clients. On Friday, I visited three women farmers–Emelia George, Enyoman Hlordzi and Gladys Donu–in Ada, an area two Read more…
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Clients, Community, Cynthia Greenwood, Education finance, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Global Poverty, Loan Officer, Loans, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Smallholder farmer, Technology, Vicki Escarra, Women
Microfinance’s Risky Lending Is a Safe Bet
The following post by Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka, on our Board of Directors, was originally published on The Huffington Post. As I look at the microfinance industry globally, I’m encouraged by the trends and the progress we’ve achieved so far. Whether you search in Wikipedia, CGAP or MIX Market, whatever the source of the data and Read more…
Tagged Africa, Board of Directors, CGAP, Clients, code of conduct, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Huffington Post, Kadita "A.T." Tshibaka, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Microfinance industry, mitigate risk, MIX Market, Opportunity International, Poverty, Savings, Smart Campaign, Training, Transformational Training, Uganda, what we're reading
A Breeze of Change in Ghana
I left Opportunity Ghana for the U.S. in 2007, after almost four years serving the local staff and clients–first, as a loan officer, bringing Opportunity to disadvantaged women, men and children; then as a loan supervisor, providing leadership to other loan officers; and then as a Relationship Manager with a great team of loan officers Read more…
Tagged accra, Africa, Agricultural finance, Ashaiman, Branch staff, CEO, Community, Cosmus Kowuoche, Education finance, Financial services, Ghana, Loan Officer, local staff, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity Ghana, Opportunity International, Poverty, Schools, Transformation, Vicki Escarra
Meet Our Staff: How World Travel Brought Me Home to YAO
For the past month, when people have asked me how I am doing, I have answered, “I’m living the dream!” As the new manager of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, I spend my days interacting with smart, motivated, and fascinating individuals, travelling around the country strengthening communities of like-minded people in YAO chapters, and developing plans Read more…
Tagged Africa, chapters, Clients, Community, donor, El Salvador, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Global Poverty, Insight Trip, Insurance, Loans, Meet Our Staff, Mexico, Microfinance, Nicaragua, Opportunity International, Poverty, Rwanda, Savings, south america, Tanzania, Training, Travel, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
