Microfinance: A Solution to Global Poverty

Opportunity International is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the working poor. We provide small loans that allow poor entrepreneurs to start or expand a business, develop a steady income, provide for their families and create jobs for their neighbors. We also offer savings, microinsurance, business training and many more services to 1.1 million working poor in 28 developing nations.

What's New

	OptINnow is a new initiative from Opportunity International that enables people to make donations directly to an entrepreneur in the developing world. Learn about OptINnow
	$24.2 million in new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help Micro Insurance Agency expand services in 11 new countries and reach 21 million poor people. Press release, video and pictures
	The Kenya Emergency Fund has been created to assist Kenyan clients restructure their lives in the wake of the current violence. Read more information Watch the video