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Kenyan Government Declares Two Days of Mourning for Victims of Monday’s Fire

by Opportunity International

On Tuesday, Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki declared Wednesday, Sept. 14 and Thursday, Sept. 15 to be days of national mourning following Monday’s oil pipeline fire that has claimed the lives of more than 100 people to date, and injured more than 100 others. The president and the national Cabinet have determined that during these two days, the national flag shall fly at half-mast and there will be no celebrations. They also made an official public statement expressing their sincerest sympathies…

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Retrospective on Opportunity’s 40 Years: Spotlight on the 1990s

by Opportunity International

Opportunity International celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. In honor of our four decades partnering with microfinance clients, we’re taking a look back at all the triumphs and joys of helping people around the world create change in their lives. A Look Back at the ’90s In the 1990s, Opportunity expanded into new continents, bringing tremendous growth as we began serving Africans and Eastern Europeans living in extreme poverty. Opportunity reached a milestone of 25,000 active clients…

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Photo Journey of Meeting Microfinance Clients in Rwanda and Uganda

by Opportunity supporter Fred of Hillsborough, Calif.

Uganda- A young girl welcomes an Opportunity International visitor from the floor of her father’s shop in a Kampala market. Her young father is an enterprising entrepreneur and Trust Group member who runs a small boutique that sells both new and old clothes, mattresses, and small luggage. Business is good, he reports, and he is looking to expand his business. With his ingenuity, hard work and business savvy, along with Opportunity’s loans, he has good reason to be optimistic about his family’s…

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We’re Celebrating 40 Years of Poverty Alleviation through Microfinance

by Opportunity International

For 40 years, Opportunity International has been blessed to serve millions of microfinance clients and honored to partner with passionate supporters committed to ending global poverty. Today, our staff touches the lives of clients on four continents, we develop innovative products that protect families and communities, expand services to remote and rural areas, and so much more. Click here to see our 40th anniversary photo slideshow. Check out our 40th anniversary photo slideshow for a retrospective…

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Back to School with a Visit to See Education Finance in Action in Uganda

by Mark Lutz

As we head back to school in the U.S., we’re thinking a lot about our educational loan clients and school proprietors around the world, and the impoverished children who are receiving an education because of them. Here, staff member Mark shares what he learned about education finance on his recent visit to a primary school in Kampala, Uganda. On this trip, we’ve learned that 50 percent of Uganda’s population is 15 years old or younger. That’s a lot of children to educate. Law requires that…

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Last Chance to Triple Your Impact–The Banking on Africa Summer Campaign Ends Tonight

by Opportunity International

Congratulations! Because of your support, our Banking on Africa campaign has reached its $75,000 summer goal, making crucial progress toward the day when all people in Sub-Saharan Africa will be able to access powerful financial services that enable them to break the cycle of poverty. Inspired by your enthusiastic support, the 2-to-1 match has been extended until the campaign closes tonight at 11:59 p.m. PST. This is your last chance to triple your gift’s impact, creating lasting change in the…

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Top 5 Creative Fundraisers by International Nonprofits

by Opportunity International

Last February, 29 super-dedicated young professionals and entrepreneurs went to Orlando, Florida to jump out of a plane, skydiving to raise funds and awareness for Opportunity Tanzania‘s microfinance initiatives. Inspired by our supporters’ fundraiser at 18,000 feet, we entered Jump for Opportunity as the “Most Creative Fundraiser by a Charity” in this year’s Classy Awards. If you like our fundraiser, you can vote for Jump in the Classy Awards by clicking here. Of course, we’re not the…

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Support our Clients, Buy a Sevenly T-Shirt

by Emily Riemer

Wear your passion for microfinance with pride. This week only, Sevenly is selling a specially designed t-shirt to benefit Opportunity International in honor of our Banking on Africa campaign concluding this Saturday. Sevenly is a company of Christian social entrepreneurs whose mission is to design and sell t-shirts to raise funds and awareness for nonprofit organizations they feel are making a big impact in the world, and they’ve selected Opportunity as their featured nonprofit of the week. The…

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My First Trust Group Experience, a Traveler’s Report from Uganda

by Insight Trip traveler Bruce of San Francisco, Calif.

We rose early today and split into two groups with ours visiting a Trust Group in Kampala, which is the bustling capital of Uganda. We meandered down the shopping district, winding our way through an orderly confusion of shops, street vendors and a sea of humanity. It was hot and dry and the red dust rose over the marketplace like a cloud mixing itself with the heavy smell of outdoor cooking and fumes from the boda bodas as they streaked by. We found our destination, which was one of two wooden covered…

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Empowerment through Microfinance–Meeting Rwandan Microfinance Client Dorosera Mukagahima

by Mark Lutz

Dorosera Mukagahima made our long two-hour bus ride worth the trek to her remote village. She’s the elected treasurer in her Trust Group of about 30, mostly women. In her business she buys and sells goats—about three at a time. She proudly told us of her sturdy mud brick home with a metal roof, situated on an acre of land that she owns. Life hasn’t always been this good. She explained that a couple years ago when she joined the Trust Group her “brain was closed.” She says she was confused,…

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