Impact
Impact
Opportunity International provides three million people worldwide with the financial products they need to transform their lives and break the cycle of poverty.
Loans
When clients build and grow businesses with Opportunity loans, they often set into motion cycles of change that raise their incomes, help create more opportunities for family members and provide jobs for their neighbors.
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Fruit vendor Sephina Macha feels blessed that Opportunity loans helped her expand her business in Arusha, Tanzania, making it possible for her children to go to school.
Savings
People living in poverty often are excluded from formal banking, so they struggle to find a safe place to save their money. For Opportunity clients, interest-bearing savings accounts bring stability and provide a secure, convenient way to manage their money and prepare for the unexpected.
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Beatrice Duku Frimpomg Boaten has over $30 in savings that she accesses at an Opportunity mobile bank near her cocoa farm in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
Microinsurance
Opportunity microinsurance subsidiary MicroEnsure works in five countries, offering products that include credit life, funeral, health, and weather index crop insurance. This critical safety net is the key to protecting people from sliding deeper into poverty in the face of unexpected disaster.
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When her baby needed care for malnutrition, Deepa Kahar (left) of Maharashtra, India, was relieved that her Opportunity health insurance covered treatment and medicine.
Training
Access to financial services alone often is not enough to break the cycle of poverty. Opportunity International is committed to providing access to essential business and life-skills training, education and know-how tailored to the needs of our clients.
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Loan Officer Buenaventura Tapias Alvarez (left) leads financial literacy training for the Progress Trust Group of entrepreneurial artisans in San Jacinto, Colombia.
