Raise Capital for Entrepreneurs in the Philippines

With loans to 934,000 entrepreneurs, nearly 100,000 families saving and 1.5 million insurance policies across the Philippines, Opportunity International continues to increase access to services for those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. An estimated 43 million of the Philippines’ total population of 103 million...

Facilitating Ana’s Economic Empowerment Opportunity is empowering Filipino families to have greater power and control over their own lives. Before coming to Opportunity, Ana lacked the means to make her own choices. For Ana (pictured left), disempowerment meant scavenging for food and scraps on a garbage dump from the...

Did you know that currently, one-third of the population of the Philippines lives under the poverty line and 60% are employed in the informal economy, running small businesses which are not recognized by the government?  By contributing to this initiative, you are helping to expand access to financial services so that...

Liza is very diligent businesswoman, sacrificing a lot in working to reach her goals in life. Liza is 38 years old and married. She has three children who are all in the school-aged and her family resides in the province of Nueva Ecija. Their family is always helping each other, her children and her husband always extend...

Elma Pabliro is a 54 year old mother from Barangay Dakutan, Dumangas, Philippines. She lives a simple life in a small shack together with her husband Carlos and her four kids, Hajie, Bitsy Rose, Ryan, and Aldrin. According to Elma, raisng four children at the same time is very hard. Neither she nor her husband have had any...

Currently, millions of families in developing countries don’t have access to savings services because they don’t have the minimum deposit most commercial banks require (some two-thirds of the world’s adults still do not have a basic bank account). Their savings come in such small increments that most...

This year, Opportunity International will be taking over 12 Insight Trips to countries around the world. Coming up soon, is a trip to the Philippines. On May 27, this many people will depart for Antipolo City, where they will get to see Opportunity's main branch, and visit local staff and leadership. Then, visitors...

Having been ravaged by four back-to-back typhoons, the Philippines is enduring a humanitarian crisis on a national scale. Farmers have lost entire crops, families have lost thriving businesses and community members have had to lean on one another for support. The good news is that MicroEnsure, Opportunity...