In November 2021, the university auditorium in Kumasi, Ghana, was filled with singing and dancing, resonating with the pure joy of 224 women (and one brave man) gathered for their graduation ceremony. This was no ordinary graduation ceremony. Most of these women had never even stepped onto a university campus before, let alone had the […]
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Digital banking is something most of us take for granted. Months can go by without the need to enter a bank branch. Making bill payments, depositing paycheques, transferring funds, and even arranging loans are all carried out online using seamless and secure digital banking apps. Access to digital financial services is also an essential part of normal
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For almost 50 years, Opportunity International has applied the principles of microfinance to address global poverty. The essence of microfinance is financial inclusion. Families trapped in ultra-poverty are marginalized at the fringes of society. Often illiterate and without equity, they are excluded from access to basic financial services that most take for granted — savings,
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Holistic microfinance – financial inclusion with training – is one of the most powerfully sustainable, inclusive and transformative strategies of poverty reduction. Around the world, the Bankers to the Poor – microfinance institutions (MFIs) – and the clients they serve have been hammered by the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Just as we are
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“The poor inspire us to overcome difficulty and not give up.” Mark Lutz, UnPoverty What a week we’ve been through and it’s only the beginning! I have been so inspired by “caremongers” delivering food to seniors, hardware stores donating masks to hospitals, distillers making hand sanitizer, and musicians singing from their balconies. It has reminded me of
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I expect that like me, your inbox has been flooded with COVID-19 emails, and I have been very hesitant to add yet one more. However, you support Opportunity International because you believe in our clients, and we wanted to let you know how our Implementing Partners and clients are faring during this crisis. Each country
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Michelangelo is known to have remarked “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” We were all hot and tired. It had been a very long day of inspiring visits with microfinance clients and with kids in the Investing Hope Foundation YES (Youth Entrepreneurship and Savings) Program. We were
