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Opportunity LiveBlog: “This Determination Led Me to Opportunity”
Henrietta Isaac, Marketing and Business Development Manager at GO Finance India, is a champion of dreams. I would like to introduce you to Henrietta Isaac. She is a professional “champion of dreams.”...
View ArticleEmerging Market Risks and Rewards
Last night, Opportunity International Board Member Kadita “A.T.” Tshibaka spoke to a distinguished audience of almost 100 business leaders and students at an event hosted by the University of Toronto’s...
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Meeting the Grandfather of Microfinance
YAO-Chicago chair Shannon Leutheuser (left) and YAO manager Sonya Perez-Lauterbach got the opportunity to meet Dr. Muhammad Yunus in Chicago last Friday. In this picture, Yunus is signing Sonya's copy...
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The Impact of a Ugandan Trust Group: An artisan, a Polaroid and a boda boda...
Alexandra Arch had a blast taking Polaroids with the kids at the Naguru School. by Alexandra Arch, Writer and Uganda Insight Trip Participant Today combined some of the best of the best. The 12...
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Saying Good-Bye to the People of Uganda
by Alexandra Arch, Writer and Uganda Insight Trip Participant Mustula Sekitoleko welcomes us to her Jinja stall, where she sells onions and ginger root. Today we have entered the town of Jinja. After...
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Dreams for the Future: The Women of Uganda’s Peace Trust Group
Hadija is the president of Peace Trust Group. She has two businesses--selling poultry and running a hair salon. Her current loan from Opportunity Uganda is $700. The profits from her businesses enable...
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Walking with the Entrepreneurs in Jinja Market
Scovia (left) is a secondhand clothes vendor in Jinja. A business and school fee loan recipient, she says she has learned a lot from Opportunity's business training program. Guest blogger and Women’s...
View ArticleLearnings for YAO from the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit
Being an effective leader can be a challenge. So as the manager of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO), I’m always eager to learn from effective, experienced leaders from a variety of fields....
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Local Event: Investment in Women, the Power of the “Multiplier Effect”
On Monday, December 6, at the Nineteenth Century Club in Oak Park, Ill., Betsy Perdue, co-chair of the Women’s Opportunity Network (WON), shared about the ‘multiplier effect’ and how it increases the...
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ONE Blog: “Creating Jobs for Africans: An interview with Ambassador Marantis”
The following interview of Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, conducted by the ONE Campaign‘s Malaka Gharib, was originally published on the ONE Blog on Monday, June 6,...
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