Help Women in Rwanda Fight Against Poverty

Recently named a top-running bank by the National Bank of Rwanda, Opportunity Rwanda has achieved steady growth in all areas of outreach. Living up to its name, Banki ya Bose, or Bank for All, Opportunity Rwanda increased its savings outreach by a remarkable 40% which helped the bank double its savings portfolio over one...

Your support has helped us develop a number of product innovations that bring even more opportunities to families trying to work themselves out of poverty.  Product innovations open doors and protect against loss. Loan officers work closely with clients to ensure they have the right services to build thriving...

Families mired in poverty are making the most of the opportunities you make possible, living their dream of having a different and better life. Because you invested in Opportunity Rwanda, we can continue to invest in people like Alphonsine Mukamuhizi as we expand deeper into rural areas like the community of Ntunga, where...

Approximately 70% of Africans work in agriculture and these households are some of the poorest in the world. Opportunity found that farmers in Africa are producing at only 40% of their potential because they cannot access the needed best-practice information, financing and markets. With your help we work with small-scale...

Empowering Women to Save Opportunity International realizes that a key part of empowering women to fight poverty lies in providing them with tools to save their money. In 2008, Opportunity International embarked on its most ambitious effort to date, a $123.6 million Bankingon Africa campaign to expand financial...

Here is how Opportunity International's financial services help women change their future and the future of their families and communities. Francine Mukeshimana, a widow and mother of five young children, found herself unable to support her family. To make matters worse her own health was failing and doctors would not treat...

In the last decade, Opportunity International embarked on an agricultural finance and rural savings program to spur economic activity and provide enduring resources for smallholder farmers and other rural clients in Rwanda. Opportunity’s approach is to help farmers move from subsistence growing to...

Opportunity International has recently received a $2.5 million grant from the John Deere Foundation. This donation supports the Bank on Africa campaign, which aims to bring financial services to farmers and other entrepreneurs in many African countries, including Rwanda. “Opportunity International is creating a...

  Meet Daniel Ryumugabe, the transformational impact manager from Urwego Opportunity Bank (UOB) of Rwanda. About life in Rwanda today, he told us, “Today, we are not just Hutus and Tutsis, we are not our ethnic groups, we are all Rwandans and we share one language and one culture.” Daniel...