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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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Unlocking Potential Through the Power of Education

by Opportunity International

Opportunity’s financial products, educational programs and business training help impoverished families, especially women, develop their capacity to the fullest. Where poverty is the way of life, people’s potential is often overshadowed by the struggle to survive. But when equipped with the right tools, even the most vulnerable are able to change their own world and create a better future for their children. We stand alongside our clients with a mission to provide those tools—the financial…

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An Outstanding Group of Ugandan Microfinance Clients

by Insight Trip traveler Kevin of Palo Alto, Calif.

These people meet weekly in this very, very rough setting to repay their loans. They must each be current on their payments for the group to be deemed current. They all are. On their own (not an idea from the bank) over the past few years this informal group has established a “reserve fund.” The fund is now “over reserved” so as a group they are buying a motor scooter and hiring a driver to start a taxi service owned by the group. Amazing. I am just blown away. They have done this on an average…

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Tanzania Reporter: Our Day at Arusha’s Faraja Center for Young Women

by Opportunity International

Reporting back from the recent YAO Insight Trip to Tanzania, Tanzania Correspondent Contest winner Kelly Flanagan shares photos from the community service day she and her fellow travelers spent at the Faraja Young Women Development Unit in Arusha. The Faraja Center is a residential facility that helps rehabilitate young female victims of human trafficking, offering them vocational skills training–such as English, sewing, cooking, handicrafts, computer skills and more–to help them build a better…

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Vote for Jump for Opportunity, a Finalist in the Stay Classy Awards

by Opportunity International

We’re excited to announce that the Opportunity submission Jump for Opportunity has been selected as one of the top 25 Most Creative Fundraisers by a Charity in the 3rd Annual Classy Awards – the largest philanthropic awards show in the country. The awards are produced by Stay Classy, an online fundraising platform for nonprofits. Thanks to all Opportunity supporters who voted in the first round, we now have the chance to earn $15,000 and gain recognition for our work through this national competition. We…

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Photo Blog: We’re Banking on Africa

by Opportunity International

This summer, Opportunity has launched the Banking on Africa Campaign. The campaign aims to bring millions of Sub-Saharan Africans closer to the day when they can safely deposit their savings, access loans to grow businesses, and purchase affordable insurance to protect their families—right in their own communities. Check out a photo tour below of some of the countries we’re serving in Sub-Saharan Africa. For more on the Banking on Africa Campaign, check out opportunity.org/africa.         

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Breaking Down Barriers & Building Access Through Microfinance Innovations

by Opportunity International

Targeted to reach the most marginalized, Opportunity’s financial products help hardworking people overcome the inherent obstacles of poverty and build a more stable, secure and fulfilling life. Throughout the developing world, people are excluded from access to financial services by barriers like meager, unsteady income; illiteracy; gender bias; expensive transportation and geographic isolation. To address these challenges, Opportunity carefully crafts savings, loan, training and insurance products…

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Embarking on My Journey to Rwanda & Uganda

by Opportunity International

For one week, our group of eleven will visit Opportunity International’s work in Africa. I invite you to come along on this adventure. Our motley crew rendezvoused in Rwanda on Saturday, August 6, and for the next week we’ll keep you posted on what we’re doing and feeling. We’re going on this journey, traveling through Rwanda and Uganda, to see the impact of Opportunity’s Banking on Africa initiative, a campaign to bring life-changing financial services to millions of people in rural and…

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My Inspirational Meeting in Malawi with Microfinance Client Mary Jackson

by Cynthia Greenwood

Recently, Opportunity International staff members traveled to Malawi, seeing firsthand how technology enables us to deliver microfinance services to rural people living in extreme poverty. They met with Opportunity Malawi clients and local staff to capture the stories of entrepreneurs who are working hard to break the cycle of poverty. Below, read staff member Cynthia’s account of her meeting with client Mary Jackson. At first, Mary was very shy, and wouldn’t look me in the face when I sat down…

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Tanzania Reporter Meets Emilia P. Mtei of the Chapakazi Trust Group

by Kelly Flanagan

She is part of the Trust Group called Chapakazi (translation: Hard-Working) based in Moshi, Tanzania. Her passion is working at her small grocery store where she sells fish, avocados and various other vegetables. Emilia looks over at her loan officer Levina and laughs aloud as we YAO members ask her questions about her loan success and business goals. The women in this group are going into their second loan cycle, glowing with pride over their accomplishments. Levina translates for the women who…

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