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Mind the Gap: Bridging the Gender Divide at Opportunity…
Women in low and middle-income countries are 10% less likely than men to own a phone and 23% less likely to use mobile internet. We regularly host roundtable events about Digital Financial Services (DFS)…
Read MoreRefugee to Entrepreneur: All they need is Opportunity.
Who or what do you see when you first hear the word refugee? Do you see a mother? A businessman? A daughter? A teacher? An athlete? In 2019, Opportunity International started working in the…
Read MoreAutumn 2021
The face of poverty is disproportionately female. Women and girls represent an estimated 70% of all people surviving on less than $2 a day. Our Autumn 2021 newsletter focuses on how we are providing women…
Read MoreA woman is a change-agent. Financial inclusion increasing…
I recently spoke to Agnes, a colleague who works for our partner Opportunity Bank Uganda to find out how financial inclusion is increasing gender equality in the Nakivale refugee settlement. This is our…
Read MoreCelebrating International Youth Day: A Spotlight on…
International Youth Day, held annually on the 12th August, is a great platform to highlight issues faced by young people globally and to celebrate their resilience. At Opportunity International, we recognise…
Read MoreYou can't lock down innovation
Do you feel like life is moving forward? That maybe the UK can start thinking about things other than Coronavirus? It looks positive, right? Many people are fortunate to have had our first vaccination…
Read MoreRefugee project hit by foreign aid cuts
The difficult life of a refugee living in Uganda just got harder. Covid-19 created a poverty crisis for refugees that will take longer to overcome than the health crisis threatened by the pandemic. It…
Read MoreIncluding people with limited literacy in digital financial…
Opportunity International recently hosted the first in a series of Digital Financial Services roundtable events. We brought together user experience experts from technology companies and business and venture…
Read MoreWhy do people donate to charity?
As we celebrate 50 years of our charity, we asked some of our UK supporters why they donate to Opportunity - why do they care about people living in poverty overseas? What is it that makes them give their…
Read MoreAn Introduction to Opportunity International
Join us for an ‘Introduction to Opportunity’ - a short, online, no-strings-attached webinar where you’ll meet our CEO, hear from our Director of Programmes and listen to stories from the field.
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