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Opportunity UK’s Lydia Baffour Awuah Will Be Olympic…
Opportunity International-UK’s Lydia Baffour Awuah has been chosen to be one of the torchbearers in the Olympic torch relay. Lydia will be carrying the flame tomorrow–Tuesday, July 10–at 1:41 a.m.…
Read MoreEvangelism is More Than Words
The following post was written by Bob Lupton–a community developer, entrepreneur, and a member of the Board of Directors for Opportunity’s Nicaragua Community Economic Development Project–who brings…
Read MoreTo Nurture the Freedoms of People
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has spoken of how true development in any society (in affluent as well as developing countries) needs to be thought of in terms of the progress made in the…
Read MorePhoto Blog: Happy Fourth of July
For Opportunity clients, freedom is… Education Feeding your children Trusting each other Always learning Planning for the future Access to healthcare Having a job Improving your community Having…
Read MoreDo We Know Who These Smallholder Farmers Are? And Do…
Francis Mamati. Leonida Wanyama. Rasoa Wasike. Zipporah Biketi. Roger Thurow, author of The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change, implores us to get to know these…
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading: Darcy Deane on How Great Women…
Seventeen-year-old Darcy Deane and her mom, Bonnie St. John, wrote the book on inspiring female leaders. In How Great Women Lead: A Mother-Daughter Adventure into the Lives of Women Shaping the World,…
Read MoreSuccess Story: Banking on Africa Campaign
In 2008, Opportunity embarked on its most ambitious effort to date, a $123.6 million Banking on Africa campaign to expand financial services for impoverished families throughout sub-Saharan Africa. With…
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading: Rio +20 and the Role of Women…
Last week, June 20-22, over 45,000 people–including world leaders, NGOs, and other policymakers–came together in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development,…
Read MoreMeet Our Staff: 10 Questions with Lauren Hawley, New…
Lauren Hawley arrived at Opportunity three weeks ago, taking the role of the manager of the Board of Governors program. She’ll be working to grow the community and coordinate Governor activities, support…
Read MoreOpportunity Colombia Receives Operational Banking License,…
On Friday, June 22, the Superintendency of Finance in Bogotá, Colombia, granted Opportunity International Colombia the final operational banking license it needs to be a deposit-taking and full service…
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