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10 March 2010



	Welcome to Opportunity! We empower people in developing countries with microfinance - small loans, savings, micro insurance - and training so that they can unlock their own potential and better provide for themselves and their families. Opportunity is serving over 1.8 million clients around the world. 85% of our clients are women. Help us do more!

Opportunity International is a microfinance charity

Latest news...

> Maria in Malawi: Opportunity's
Maria Largey is in Malawi this week
Click here to read her blog

> George Alagiah to read Radio 4 Appeal... Click here for more

> Melinda Gates visits Opportunity Malawi Read more in the FT Gapper blog

> Opportunity featured in Millennium Villages video... More

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What is microfinance?

Watch our short intro to microfinance

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Making your gift go a little farther

“I like the fact that the charity offers a hand-up rather than a handout. There’s a 98 per cent repayment rate, which means that each pound I give works over and over again. I find that incredibly powerful.”

Supporter Rebecca Constable, a senior private banker, shares why she gives regularly to Opportunity in The Times.

Read more here

We want work!

Opportunity co-founder Al Whittaker made the first loan to Carlos Moreno in Colombia in 1971

Read the Opportunity story here


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