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Be Inspired: A Traveler Meets Opportunity Uganda’s…
Debby Farrington, a supporter of the Women’s Opportunity Network (WON) is visiting Uganda with her 16-year-old nephew Matt Statman. Yesterday, Matt sent us a post about meeting teenage students in…
Read MoreMeeting Ugandan Students: Reflections of an American…
Sixteen-year-old Matt Statman shares his impressions of traveling to Kampala, Uganda with his aunt, Women’s Opportunity Network (WON)supporter Debbie Farrington. He sends us back this enthusiastic…
Read MoreHappy 92nd Birthday, Nelson Mandela!
Happy birthday to the father of post-Apartheid South Africa. On Sunday, July 18th, Nelson Mandela turned 92. The South African leader andNobel Peace Prize winner, who had been imprisoned for 27 years…
Read MoreTop 5 Posts About Technology
Cell phone banking, smart cards featuring biometric technology,land-mapping using GPS: technology innovations are expanding the reach of microfinance in the developing world. Learn and go deeper intomicrofinance with…
Read MoreSpotlight on Agricultural Finance: An Interview with…
Through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the MasterCard Foundation, Opportunity is now offering greater financial tools to people in rural areas, including 90,000 smallholder farmers…
Read MoreSending Our Condolences to the Victims of Sunday’s…
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims of the two bombings that took place late Sunday night in Kampala, Uganda. The bombings were done in a synchronized attack on large gatherings…
Read MoreSupporting Youth Groups with Microloans in Tanzania
AJ Renold, Opportunity Tanzania’s multimedia YAO reporter on the ground, sends us this report about a pilot microlending program for a Tanzanian youth group. This past Friday, Opportunity Tanzania…
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading: Roger Thurow Encourages Rwandan…
This week, Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow on Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, posted a blog reporting on an unusual situation for farmers in Kirehe, Rwanda —…
Read MoreGlobal Poverty: Melinda Gates Discusses What Can Be…
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…
Read MoreThe Potential of Cell Phone Banking
Wondering if cell phone banking can reach the unreachable? CGAP Technology Blog has published the results of a discussion with Daryl Collins (co-author of Portfolios of the Poor) and Olga Morawczynski…
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