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Spotlight on the Annual Report: Microfinance Helps Communities Thrive

By Opportunity International on August 6, 2010

The Opportunity Progressive Trust Group in Kampala, Uganda provides the perfect example for how Trust Groups[/intlink] can strengthen a community, helping families provide for themselves, send their children to school and build for their futures. Charity Namutebi[/intlink] is an Opportunity Uganda[/intlink] loan officer for the Progressive Trust Group[/intlink]. She says that helping others thrive is her way of serving Read more…

Posted in Faith in Action, Local Staffing, Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Trust Groups, What We're Reading, Where We Work
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Charity Namutebi, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, james kyeune, Kampala, lady infant primary school, Loan Officer, Mariam Noah, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, Nuulu Nankya, Opportunity International, Poverty, progressive trust group, Ruth Nassimbwa, Schools, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Melinda French Gates on the Impact of Agricultural Finance

By Opportunity International on August 4, 2010

Want to do more to impact global poverty? In an interview in the August issue of Smithsonian magazine, Melinda Gates outlines the techniques the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is using to fight global poverty in the 21st century. (“Melinda French Gates on Saving Lives,” by Terence Monmaney) It’s part of the magazine’s 40th-anniversary issue, featuring ”40 Things You Read more…

Posted in Loans, Microinsurance, Our Work, Rural Outreach, Savings, Strategic Partners, Technology, Training, What We're Reading, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Agriculture Microfinance, Agrifinance, Asia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cell phone banking, Clients, Community, Crop insurance, Education, Ending Hunger, Ending Poverty, Farmer, Farmers, Financial services, Green Revolution, Healthcare, Hunger, Insurance, Loans, Malawi, MasterCard Foundation, Melinda Gates, MFI, Microfinance, Microinsurance, Mobile Banking, Opportunity International, Savings, Schools, Smallholder farmer, Students, Technology, The MasterCard Foundation, Training, Weather-index crop insurance, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Spotlight on the Annual Report: Empowering Emerging Women Leaders in Microfinance

By Opportunity International on August 3, 2010

Meet Beatrice William. Beatrice is undergoing training through Opportunity International’s Emerging Leaders Program – part of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women Initiative–which trains talented women in banking and finance to help them establish or advance careers in microfinance as loan officers and bank managers. “When I heard that I had been chosen to come to Nairobi for the Emerging Leaders Read more…

Posted in Our Mission and Vision, Our Motivation, Our Work, Strategic Partners, Training, What We're Reading, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged 10000 women initiative, 10k Women, 2009 annual report, Africa, annual report, Banking, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Dar es Salaam, Education, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Goldman Sachs, Kenya, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Nairobi, Opportunity International, Opportunity Tanzania, Poverty, Tanzania, Training, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Knowledge Leads to Understanding: Getting to Know Uganda

By Guest Post on July 30, 2010

Women’s Opportunity Network (WON)[/intlink] supporter and her 16-year-old nephew contributed this final post about their trip to Uganda, summing up the unforgettable people they met and places they saw on their journey. The Mighty Nile River Debby: is a beautiful country: Winston Churchill described it as “the pearl of Africa” because of its green hills, Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Local Staffing, Our Work, Trust Groups, What We're Reading, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Africa, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Education, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Nile River, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Schools, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, University, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Rwandan Women are Crucial to Economy — A Story on CNN.com

By Opportunity International on July 27, 2010

Check out CNN.com where Lisa Desai wrote a piece, accompanied by a video, that highlights the integral role that women play in the growing economy of Rwanda since the genocide in 1994. Today, women outnumber men in and, according to the piece, “there are more women in Rwanda’s parliament than any other country in the world. Read more…

Posted in Loans, Local Staffing, Our Mission and Vision, Our Work, Savings, Strategic Partners, Training, What We're Reading, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged 10000 women initiative, Africa, clementine uzabakiriho, CNN, CNN.com, Community, Education, Emerging Leaders, emerging leaders program, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Gahaya Links, Goldman Sachs, Kigali, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, Opportunity International, Opportunity Rwanda, Poverty, Rwanda, Savings, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Be Inspired: A Traveler Meets Opportunity Uganda’s Microfinance Clients

By Guest Post on July 23, 2010

Debby Farrington, a supporter of the is visiting Uganda with her 16-year-old nephew Matt Statman. Yesterday, Matt sent us about meeting teenage students in Kampala, and today, Debby reports on their visits with Trust Group clients and some very inspiring women entrepreneurs. Today, we visited a meeting and some very special clients of Opportunity Uganda. Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Local Staffing, Our Work, Training, Trust Groups, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Children, Client Stories, Clients, Community, Ending Poverty, Financial services, Insight Trip, Kampala, Loan Officer, Loans, MFI, Microfinance, Mothers, Opportunity International, Opportunity Uganda, Poverty, Students, Trust Groups, Uganda, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, WON, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity

Meeting Ugandan Students: Reflections of an American Teenager

By Guest Post on July 22, 2010

Sixteen-year-old Matt Statman shares his impressions of traveling to Kampala, Uganda with his aunt, supporter Debbie Farrington. He sends us back this enthusiastic report on the connections he made and the lessons he learned by visiting with students through a local education NGO called Educate! Matt’s experience offers a window into the lives of Ugandan students, highlighting their Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Our Work, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity
Tagged Africa, Banking on Education, Children, Clients, Community, Education, Microfinance, Opportunity International, Poverty, Schools, Students, Uganda, Women's Opportunity Network, WON, YAO, Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, Youth

Global Poverty: Melinda Gates Discusses What Can Be Done

By Opportunity International on July 6, 2010

In an interview with Melinda French Gates in the July/August issue of Smithsonian, the co-chair of the world’s largest philanthropic organization discusses what can be done and what is being done about global poverty and health. As part of the $22.7 billion the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given to development, education and health Read more…

Posted in Rural Outreach, Strategic Partners, Trust Groups, What We're Reading, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Africa, Agricultural finance, Agriculture, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Children, Clients, Community, Education, Financial services, Health, Healthcare, Kenya, Malawi, MasterCard Foundation, Melinda Gates, MFI, Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Opportunity International, Opportunity Malawi, Poverty, Savings, Schools, Students, Technology, The MasterCard Foundation, Women, Women's Opportunity Network, Women's Philanthropy, WON

Walking with the Entrepreneurs in Jinja Market

By Guest Post on June 30, 2010

Guest blogger and Women’s Opportunity Network (WON) member Julie Hindmarsh sends us this report from WON’s “Mothers, Daughters and Sisters” Insight Trip to Uganda. This post details the travelers’ visit to a Trust Group in Jinja on Thursday. As the first visitors to the Tusakimn (Unity) Trust Group in Jinja, Uganda, the Opportunity loan recipients Read more…

Posted in Insight Trips, Trust Groups, Where We Work, Women's Opportunity Network
Tagged Business, Client Stories, Clients, Daughters, Education, Jinja, Julie Hindmarsh, Leaders, Loans, Mothers, School fee loans, Sisters, Training, Trust Groups, Women, WON, WON Uganda Insight Trip 2010

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