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What We Do Meet The Clients

With clients in over 20 countries, Opportunity International provides access to financial products and support to more than 10 million people who are now working their way out of poverty.

Entrepreneur

Caroline Musoke

Caroline Musoke owns a popular fruit and vegetable stall in Ggaba Market, Kampala. She is the sole carer to her four grandchildren and lives with them in a small room close to her business.

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Solange Bwanya Fitina

With help from Opportunity International, Solange was able to purchase machinery and materials to expand her business, which now includes wedding garment rentals.
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Therese

Therese arrived in Nakivale Refugee Camp in September 2019. This is her story.
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Mary Makkazi

Mary Makkazi is a single mother of five children. She works hard on her maize farm to provide for them and her sister, whose family she also supports.
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Robinah Muyama

Left by her husband to look after six children on her own, daily life was a challenge for Robinah Muyama. She struggled to provide regular meals for her children and she couldn’t pay their school fees. In time, her eldest three children stopped going to school – “Back then the children were being chased out of school because we had no money to pay their school fees” she says. Life was tough and Robinah couldn’t see a way out.
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Vida

Vida is a smart, determined 25-year-old with big ambitions for her future. She wants to be a fashion designer.
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Esperance

After being introduced to Opportunity International, Esperance received agricultural and financial training alongside a loan for fertiliser that helped improve her farm’s yield. She now sells her surplus produce at her local market and with the increased income she is able to provide for her children’s education, clothing and food. Over time, her farm has grown and she now hires people to help on the farm during harvest.
Entrepreneur

Beatrice Sarkodie

After seeing the need of children in her community, Beatrice started her own school. Find out about it's life-changing impact through the experience of one of her students...
Farmer

Berth

Berth lives in Kinshasa with her five children and husband of 25 years. She owns a frut and vegetable business which had been struggling but this changed after being introduced to Opportunity International.

Entrepreneur

Grace Mukamurenzi

Grace is a successful businesswoman who is enabling her family and community to thrive. But this wasn’t always the case. Growing up, Grace didn’t go to school and from a young age she started small businesses in order to make money and survive.
Farmer

Leila

Leila lives in a remote village in northern Ghana. The nearest town is a 3-hour bus ride along a bumpy red-dust road, inaccessible after rain. This is her story Leila struggled to make ends meet on her farm. With no formal training or access to the resources needed, her farm barely produced enough to feed her family let alone extra to sell.

Entrepreneur

Bettina

Bettina is 24 and currently expecting her third child. She left school after primary school – primary education is free in Malawi but secondary school is not and her parents couldn’t afford to send her.
Farmer

Nicole

Nicole is 43 years old and lives near Kinshasa, near where she grew up as the youngest of nine children. Her parents died when she was a child and so was unable to complete her secondary school education. When her parents passed away she worked with her aunt on the farm.
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Sephora

Sephora is 19 years old and lives in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement with her parents, after fleeing the Democratic Republic of Congo due to conflict and insecurity. She is now building a successful business.

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