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We’re Expanding Financial Access to Rural Malawi. Here’s How You Can Help.

By Opportunity International on August 26, 2010

Travel in your mind to the shores of Lake Malawi. In this remote region, extreme poverty is widespread. But because of the donations, hard work and advocacy of Opportunity supporters and staff, the Malawians here have been empowered financially. To reach the unreachable, Malawi has replicated its successful “hub-and-spoke” approach by opening a hub branch Read more…

Posted in Bank Building, Events, Insight Trips, Loans, Microinsurance, OptINnow, Our Work, Rural Outreach, Savings, Training, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Branch staff, Conference, credit life insurance, Crop insurance, Ending Poverty, fall microfinance conference, Financial services, fundraisers, Fundraising, Insight Trip, Insight Trips, Insurance, Latin America, Loans, Malawi, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Mobile Banking, mobile banking vehicle, mobile branches, Online fundraising, Opportunity International, Opportunity Malawi, opportunity microfinance conference, OptINnow, Poverty, Satellite bank branch, Savings, Savings account, small business loans, Training, Transportation, Washington D.C.

Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Education as a Solution

By Guest Post on June 25, 2010

Guest blogger and Women’s Opportunity Network (WON) member Julie Hindmarsh sends us this report while on WON’s “Mothers, Daughters and Sisters” Insight Trip to Uganda. What a thrill to visit a school that has received loans from Opportunity Uganda! Maria Nassaka’s husband started the school in 2000 with only 50 children. When he died in Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Loans, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Savings, Trust Groups, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Banking on Education, Children, Daughters, Dominican Republic, Ending Poverty, Ghana, Girl, Half the Sky, Loans, Malawi, Mothers, Nicholas D. Kristof, Opportunity Uganda, Savings account, School, School fees, Sheryl WuDunn, Sisters, Teachers, Trust Group, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON, WON Uganda Insight Trip 2010

Opportunity Malawi’s Nkhata Bay bank kiosk is now open…

By Opportunity International on May 27, 2010

Opportunity Malawi’s Nkhata Bay bank kiosk officially opened to the public on April 14th, 2010. The kiosk, which will expand to a satellite branch, is located in Malawi’s northern region. According to Dickson, the kiosk’s customer service agent, “Things look promising – within barely an hour of opening the doors I started savings accounts for 10 Read more…

Posted in Bank Building, Loans, Local Staffing, Our Work, Savings, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Bank, Bank Building, Client Stories, Kiosk, Loans, Malawi, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Ndirande Township, Nkhata Bay, Opportunity International, Opportunity Malawi, Savings, Savings account, Technology, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Melinda Gates Highlights Opportunity International

By Rob Meloche on January 29, 2010

Earlier this week, Opportunity International was honored to host Melinda Gates as she visited some of our clients and experienced our banking services in Malawi. With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Opportunity is expanding access to savings accounts, loans, training and insurance to people struggling to work their way out of Read more…

Posted in Microinsurance, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Rural Outreach, Savings, Strategic Partners
Tagged Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Davos, Financial Access, Health, Healthcare, Malawi, Melinda Gates, Mobile Banking, Rural banking, Savings, Savings account, World Economic Forum

With a Grateful Heart I: Mrs. Jabalasa’s Potatoes and Promise

By Sonja Egeland Kelly on November 24, 2009

This year as we stock up on pumpkin and pecans, cook our Thanksgiving meals and recount our blessings, I am reminded of those who provide their communities with food. In particular, I’m thinking of an Opportunity International client with a food retail business who has found security in financial services this year. Mrs. Jabalasa has a successful potato Read more…

Posted in Our Work, Savings
Tagged Client Stories, Clients, Financial services, Malawi, Savings account, Thanksgiving

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