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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
What We’re Watching: Banking on Education in Ghana
Forty-six million African children have never set foot in a classroom. That’s why we offer education finance initiatives in Malawi, Uganda and in Ghana, where access to school fee loans and school proprietor loans help to create a better future for children and educators at local neighborhood schools. Get to know why we work in Read more…
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Children, Clients, Community, Education, Education finance, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Ghana, Global Poverty, India, Loan Officer, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Samrit Academy, Savings, School fee loans, School Proprietor Loans, Schools, Students, Students of the World, Teachers, Training, Uganda, videos, what we're watching
Empowering Women & Girls with Half the Sky
Though microfinance is available to both men and women entrepreneurs, the gains that women achieve are almost three times more likely to be reinvested in their children—providing a powerful generational multiplier that accelerates economic growth. A woman will spend 90% of her income on her family, while men typically spend only 35%. That’s why if Read more…
Tagged Children, Education, Empowerment, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Girls, Half the Sky, India, Investing in Women and Girls, Jayanthi, Loan Officer, Loans, Microfinance, Mothers, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity International, Poverty, Sheryl WuDunn, strategic partners, Trust Groups, Women, women's empowerment, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON
What We’re Pinning: Women’s Empowerment
We believe that one of the keys to poverty eradication is the empowerment of women. Women represent 70% of those living on less than $2 a day, but typically spend 90% of their income on their families. So in honor of all the hardworking and courageous women around the world, here are some of our Read more…
Tagged Africa, Children, Empowerment, Ending Poverty, Entrepreneurs, Female entrepreneurs, Girls, Half the Sky, infographic, Latin America, Loans, Manal al-Sharif, Microfinance, Middle East, Oprah Winfrey, Poverty, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Time Magazine, what we're pinning, Women, women's empowerment, Women's Philanthropy, Women's World Banking
Meeting Each of Us Where We Are
The following post was written by Rich McClure, a member of Opportunity’s Board of Governors, about his Insight Trip last week to India. As I finished an impactful Insight Trip to see Opportunity’s operations in Chennai, India, I was convicted again by Jesus’s example of meeting people where they are. No matter how a person Read more…
Tagged Asia, Board of Governors, Chennai, christianity, Clients, Ending Poverty, Faith in Action, Financial services, Global Poverty, GO Finance, God, India, Insight Trip, Jesus Christ, Loans, Lord, Microfinance, Opportunity India, Opportunity International, Poverty, Training, Transformation
Ranked One of Philanthropedia’s Top Microfinance Organizations for 2012
This week, we were honored to learn that a group of 72 experts identified Opportunity International as one of 11 high-impact nonprofits working in the field of international microfinance. As a result, Philanthropedia has chosen to highlight us as one of their ranked microfinance organizations on their website and on GuideStar’s Take Action site. There, Read more…
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
Our Hearts Go Out to Those Affected by Floods in the Philippines
I was just in a market a few weeks ago when my husband, children and I went home to visit our families in the Philippines. We were admiring and appreciating the many beautiful handicrafts the Filipinos create so well. My daughters and I went from stall to stall and we could not decide which trinkets Read more…
Tagged APPEND, Asia, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, floods, in the news, Insurance, Loans, Manila, Microfinance, Microinsurance, natural disasters, Opportunity International, Opportunity Philippines, Philippines, Poverty, property insurance
Meet Our Staff: Join the Online Conversation
My first real experience with microfinance was in a Rwandan hospital. It was a little over a year ago, and I was on a three-week educational trip to Rwanda. One of our first days there, my group and I were introduced to a Trust Group of about eight women, all of whom had been widowed, Read more…
Tagged Africa, Community, Ending Poverty, Facebook, Financial services, Global Poverty, Loans, Meet Our Staff, Microfinance, Online Community Specialist, Opportunity International, Pinterest, Poverty, Rwanda, Social Media, Trust Groups, Twitter, widows, Women
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
