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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Measurable transformation to 1.4 million families
By - Ian Haisley - Director of Online Strategy
India has the largest concentration of the poor globally, with over 840 million people living on less than $2 per day. Opportunity is achieving widespread impact in India through 14 institutions, including Growing Opportunity Finance, serving 1.4 million clients through 739 branches across 190 districts in 19 states. Along...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 2 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Performance Spotlight
By - Ian Haisley - Director of Online Strategy
India has the largest concentration of the poor globally, but since October 2010, microfinance investors and lenders throughout India were forced to slow lending or step out. In December 2011, the Reserve Bank amended microfinance regulations to allow some microfinance practitioners with proven fair practices, like...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 7 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 28 donations
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Vikram I hate that you did not mention your religious affiliation in your project. For the benefit of others, here it is - http://www.opportunity.org/about/our-beliefs-about-christian-microfinance/
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 11 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Meet 1st Grader Scholarship Recipient, Ramya
By - Emily Terrell - Online Community Specialist
One of the ways Opportunity creates a better future for Indian women is through our education finance loans. We believe the most basic but essential building block of empowering people to work their way out of poverty is education. This is more than common sense, there are facts, including these from USAID, to back it...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 9 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Banking on Education in India
By - Emily Engel - Online Community Specialist
Many women in India struggle to find the money to send their children to school. So a few years ago, Opportunity launched a school loan problem to help educate the future generations. The Banking on Education pilot at Growing Opportunity Finance commenced in May 2010, focusing primarily on school fee loans, with a...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 12 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

An Indian Woman Empowered by Opportunity
By - Emily Engel - Marketing and Communications Intern
Empowering Indian Women Opportunity’s Indian microfinance organizations disburse 99.6% of their loans to women. In addition to group loans and financial training, each institution seeks to meet the needs of its clients by building partnerships to help them succeed. Some highlights of these transformational...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 56 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

A Day in the Life of a Trust Fund President
By - Ally Lynch - Campaign Specialist
It’s Monday and A. Sheela Shantakumari is leading the Baba Trust Group meeting in Chennai, India. Nineteen women have joined together to repay loans, learn accounting skills and socialize. Like many women in the world whose activity is limited by social conventions, Sheela barely left her house two years ago....
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Activity Highlights
By - David Santoso - Online Community Specialist
Ending Domestic Violence Opportunity and the International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (PCVC) bring light to the deep-seated assumptions and attitudes toward women. PCVC conducts seminars on domestic violence, challenging assumptions and leading open discussions. “I found this training...
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Low-Cost Health Insurance in India
By - Jacqueline Ryan - Marketing Intern
MicroEnsure, a subsidiary of Opportunity International, is the world’s first microinsurance intermediary, and it serves people living in poverty with innovative products in crop, loan, health, life and property insurance, offering clients and their families a safety net when an unexpected hardship or disaster occurs....
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 32 donations
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Colony in India is Capitalizing on Opportunity
By - Olivia Schultz - Project Personnel
Member of Opportunity's Womens Opportunity Network, Julie Hindmarsh, recently visited a leprosy colony in India. Having strong ties to their families, the women Julie visited have all opted to stay in this colony and start their own businesses, many making candles. These women comprise a Trust Group called Sigaram...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microfinance Services Expand in India
By - Emily Riemer - Marketing Communications Specialist
This past December, The UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of UPS, has awarded Opportunity International a grant in the amount of $100,000. The grant fosters economic literacy, as well as improves access to affordable microfinance services in India. “Opportunity International is grateful to The UPS Foundation for...
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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 2 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 2 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 6 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 6 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 5 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 7 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 28 donations

Vikram I hate that you did not mention your religious affiliation in your project. For the benefit of others, here it is - http://www.opportunity.org/about/our-beliefs-about-christian-microfinance/

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 11 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 3 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 9 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 12 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 8 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 5 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 56 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 32 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has been approved to be on GlobalGiving!

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Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 2 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 2 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 1 donation

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 6 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 6 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 5 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 7 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 28 donations

Vikram I hate that you did not mention your religious affiliation in your project. For the benefit of others, here it is - http://www.opportunity.org/about/our-beliefs-about-christian-microfinance/

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 11 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 3 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 9 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 12 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 8 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 5 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 56 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has made updates to their project page.

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has received 32 donations

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women posted a progress report

Microloans Create Opportunities for Indian Women has been approved to be on GlobalGiving!

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