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Our Hearts Go Out to Those Affected by Floods in the Philippines
I was just in a market a few weeks ago when my husband, children and I went home to visit our families in the Philippines. We were admiring and appreciating the many beautiful handicrafts the Filipinos...
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MicroEnsure Ghana Crosses One Million Milestone for Number of Lives Insured
The following post was originally published on microensure.com. This July , five years after its inception, MicroEnsure Ghana achieved one of its greatest successes: it crossed the milestone of...
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Spotlight on Tanzanian Mother and Baby on Child Health Day
In the past, if a family member needed healthcare, Theresia John Kombe of Pangara, Tanzania, had to sell one of her chickens to pay for it. But as a coffee grower with the Kilimanjaro Native...
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Today on World Food Day, there’s Hope for an End to Hunger
Globally, nearly 870 million people are undernourished–about 12% of the world’s population. It’s World Food Day and social media is buzzing with challenging facts and stats about hunger, like the ones...
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Opportunity Teams Battle Hurricane Sandy & Cyclone Neelam at Home and Abroad
As many of our own Opportunity team members along the East Coast of the U.S. await power and water services following Hurricane Sandy, we join the rest of America in mourning the loss of life and the...
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In late September, 60,000 people, including Opportunity supporters from the NYC chapter of Young Ambassadors for Opportunity, descended on Central Park for the largest syndicated charity concert in...
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What We’re Reading: Council on Foreign Relations, “Five Development...
MicroEnsure, the microinsurance subsidiary founded by Opportunity International, was recently recognized by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as a “development innovation to watch in 2013.” James...
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Microinsurance Expanded through New Strategic Investors
Opportunity International announced today that it had divested its majority stake in microinsurance organization MicroEnsure. This will bring additional capital and relationships in order to scale the...
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“The Chronicle of Philanthropy” Spotlights Opportunity International as an...
“The Chronicle of Philanthropy” featured Opportunity International‘s microinsurance work with subsidiary MicroEnsure and our CEO Vicki Escarra in an article published today. As part of Opportunity...
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The Need for Drinkable Water
The following post is by Steph Jimenez. Steph was an Intern with Opportunity International in the Summer of 2013 Our first instinct on a hot, humid day is to drink a cold, refreshing glass of water. We...
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