Help Fund Women Farmers in Ghana

A natural entrepreneur, Vivian instinctually knew how to transform what started as a table-top slipper display into a larger stall situated in a better location. “I always had a sense of what would sell in my community and how to display it nicely. I approach business with a positive attitude and a spirit of hard...

You brought success to struggling farmers and families in Ghana More than 7,000 cocoa, poultry and plantain farmers like Elizabeth are benefiting from the broad range of services offered through Opportunity’s Agriculture Finance Initiative – more than tripling outreach in the second quarter. Cocoa farmers...

Ghana – IDP Rising Schools and Sinapi Aba Trust   The IDP Rising Schools Program, an initiative created and implemented by the IDP Foundation, Inc. and Opportunity’s Ghana institution Sinapi Aba Trust, is improving the quality of education offered in affordable non-government schools in poor urban and rural...

Alima Gosu is a 45 year old married woman with five children who are in the high school. Alima lives with her family at Madina, a suburb of Accra in Ghana. She runs a small provision store in her neighborhood and has been in business for 12 years. She buys her goods from wholesalers in the city. Alima says...

According to a USAID report, global food production must increase by 70 % in the next 40 years to meet the growing population. Agriculture is needed in rural areas of developing countries and accounts for 86 % rural population's livelihoods. Women make up 43% of the agricultural workforce yet women farmers are LESS...

We are customizing our financial products to meet the needs of small-scale farmers   Opportunity’s growing footprint of service points is bringing banking to the families we seek to serve. In the first half of 2011, Opportunity’s banks in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda, Mozambique and Rwanda increased their...

Beatrice Duku Frimpong Boaten inherited her house and four acres of land from her father over 30 years ago. After Beatrice retired as a teacher, she decided to convert the land into a cocoa farm. She worked as a farmer for 16 years, and in March 2010, she joined Opportunity International‘s agricultural finance program...

As a result of extreme poverty, many of Opportunity's clients in Ghana are suffering because of lack of title over their own homes, and capital to improve their living conditions. “Clients try to use their business loans for their homes, and then their business suffers,” says Opportunity Ghana Loan...