8 Ways You Can Fight Global Poverty and Make a Difference Answer the Call: Engaging Faith Communities
To those who wish to put their faith into action, we offer life-changing engagement. Our microfinance movement is more than a loan – it’s an opportunity for economic, personal, social and spiritual transformation.
We seek to engage faith communities in our mission to end poverty
We answer Christ's call to love and serve the poor by:
- providing sustainable, holistic and compassionate solutions
- aiming to reach those living on less than $2 a day
- focusing on job creation through microfinance services such as small loans, savings accounts, microinsurance, training and technology
To those who wish to put their faith into action, we offer life-changing engagement. Our microfinance movement is more than a loan – it’s an opportunity for economic, personal, social and spiritual transformation.
Our Faith in Action
Love one another as I have loved you."
John 13:34
We strive for holistic transformation that includes four key areas:
Our clients are partners, not charity cases. We walk with world's marginalized women and men. They can build a business. They can provide for their family. They can lead. And we empower them by investing in the God-given talents of each of our clients.
We see many of our clients like the Proverbs 31 woman:
She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household.
She goes to inspect a field and buys it; with her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.
She makes sure her dealings are profitable; her lamp burns late into the night.
She extends a helping hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy.
She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.
Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.
Proverbs 31 (excerpts)
Why Partner with Opportunity
We offer a sustainable, holistic, compassionate and dignified solution to global poverty.
- Our history: First and largest faith-based microfinance organization
- Sustained impact
- Field work aligned with many churches' missions
- Insight Trips to witness and be blessed by the hardworking entrepreneurs you empower
Your Faith in Action
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds."
James 2:18
We are the hands and feet of Jesus in the world today. We carry a responsibility to respond to and care for the needs of our brothers and sisters.
Join a faith movement driven by action. Together we can transform lives holistically, sustainably and abundant in dignity and respect.
Get Involved
Learn:
about a sustainable solution to global poverty.
Love:
the poor by joining the Opportunity International community.
Lead:
the way to 20 million jobs created and 100 million lives transformed by 2020.