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One Woman Holiday Challenge Launches Today for Opportunity’s Women Clients

by Vicki Escarra

This holiday season, with your help, Opportunity International has the potential to fund 6,000 new loans for women around the world. For our new campaign, the One Woman Holiday Challenge, we have an ambitious goal of raising $450,000 in 45 days. And thanks to a generous donor, all gifts to the campaign will be matched one to one up to $450,000. More than 1.5 billion people live in extreme poverty and many are women entrepreneurs with a plan to help themselves, their families and their communities.…

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Poverty Eradication Day: Education for a Better Future

by Emily Riemer

Though few need a day to remind them that people around the world live in extreme poverty–in fact, more than half the world lives on less than $2 a day–today is the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to raise awareness of and support for the issues that cause and result from chronic poverty. "Rampant poverty, which has festered for far too long, is linked to social unrest and threats to peace and security. On this International Day, let us make an investment in our common future…

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Blog Action Day: Beduith from Colombia and “The Power of We”

by Emily Riemer

Today, a total of 2,100 blogs, from 111 countries, using 43 different languages, are participating in the fifth annual Blog Action Day. Together, we’re all blogging today about one topic, to raise awareness and participation in an issue for good, and this year’s theme is, “The Power of We.” The theme is described as “a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world, either for their own communities or for people they will never meet halfway around the…

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Spotlight on Tanzanian Mother and Baby on Child Health Day

by Opportunity International

In the past, if a family member needed healthcare, Theresia John Kombe of Pangara, Tanzania, had to sell one of her chickens to pay for it. But as a coffee grower with the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (KNCU), Theresia was able to join a MicroEnsure health plan that is connected to a network of clinics. Now, she pays an $8 annual premium that covers her whole family. That insurance coverage was vital one night when her baby, Loreen, was vomiting and had to be taken to the hospital, where she…

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What We’re Pinning: Dedication to Education

by Emily Riemer

Seventy percent of the 130 million children around the world who are not in school are girls. But with more education, girls marry later and have fewer children, the country’s economy improves and government corruption even declines! Those are just a few of the reasons why we’re so committed to educating kids around the world. Get inspired too with these pins on education. Education levels around the world. The joy of school! Never be discouraged from learning. USAID infographic on impact of…

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Get Revved Up! It’s National Coffee Day

by Lydia Baldridge Meier

Today is National Coffee Day in the U.S. and as baristas around the country hand out free cups of joe, we wanted to share with you the faces of some of the people who grow the stuff that fuels our busy lives! Josephat Nivin, in front of his home in Kinyamakobe, Uganda. Coffee farmer Teddy Namagembe, of Mubende, Uganda. Mubende coffee farmer Rapheal Kulumba with coffee cherries. Coffee cherries in a tree near Mubende. Meet Josephat Nivin of Kinyamakobe, Uganda Like many farmers in Uganda, Josephat…

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MicroEnsure Ghana Crosses One Million Milestone for Number of Lives Insured

by Opportunity International

The following post was originally published on microensure.com. This July , five years after its inception, MicroEnsure Ghana achieved one of its greatest successes: it crossed the milestone of insuring one million Ghanaians, a remarkable achievement considering it was serving just 40,000 lives in 2010. Beginning operations in 2007, MicroEnsure Ghana has held its place as Ghana’s first and largest microinsurance intermediary. Currently, 94.6% of Ghanaians, over 23 million people, have no insurance…

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Lend Your Voice to The Global Appeal for Responsible Microfinance

by Meghan Greene

The following post was originally published on the Center for Financial Inclusion blog by Meghan Greene, Manager of the Microfinance CEO Working Group, the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion. Today, in front of the 3,000 attendees of the Convergences 2015 World Forum in Paris, microfinance leaders unveiled the “Global Appeal for Responsible Microfinance,” a landmark document that urges all microfinance stakeholders to take concerted action to ensure a strong and principled microfinance…

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My Visit to King George School with our New CEO Vicki Escarra

by Cynthia Greenwood

All this week, I’ve been traveling in Ghana meeting clients and staff, seeing firsthand our work in education finance, agricultural finance, and the technology innovations that help us reach many more clients. Over the weekend, I was joined by our new CEO Vicki Escarra, who is traveling on her first of many trips to get to know our work, our international staff and our hardworking clients. Last Friday, I visited King George International School in a crowded market in one of the most impoverished…

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Meet Women Smallholder Farmers in Ghana

by Cynthia Greenwood

This past week, our Publications & Media Manager, Cynthia, has been traveling in Ghana to meet clients and staff, see our work in education finance and agricultural finance, and experience firsthand the technology innovations that help us reach many more clients. On Friday, I visited three women farmers–Emelia George, Enyoman Hlordzi and Gladys Donu–in Ada, an area two hours outside of Ghana’s capital Accra. As far as the eye could see were small plots of land financed through Opportunity’s…

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