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We value your partnership and your friendship, Examples from Opportunity International
On behalf of our hard-working clients, Opportunity would like to thank you for your generosity and dedication to our work. The Psalmist says in Psalm 140:12 "I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy." Your generosity and prayers this year are evidence of the truth of these words .
You are changing everything for women like AgnesYou are providing entrepreneurs like Agnes (pictured above) with the tools they need to bring their grassroots businesses to profitability. Even as she mourned her husband's unexpected death, Agnes realized she must breathe new life into her business or live in constant fear that her three children would go hungry. Most days she did not earn enough profit to satisfy her family's most basic needs. She invested her first loan of $108 and her second of $243, coupled with the power of savings, school fee loans and insurance, to gain the security and freedom she only dreamed possible before. Building on her success, Agnes expanded her supply shop and diversified her product line to attract even more customers. Today, she has set her fear aside, because she knows her children's next meal will come from the fruits of her own God-given potential.
Your investment of $9,605 equates to $22,61 7 in the hands of the poor!
Here's how:
Your Gifts are leveraged by client savings and commercial borrowings to increase our loan pool and provide additional funds for our work.
Your Dollars are Recycled as loans are repaid - the capital continues to benefit a growing number of clients and families.
Communities Prosper as new income is reinvested to grow businesses and employ neighbors.
Your impact: you helped us make a lasting difference!
Because of you, industrious entrepreneurs can capitalize on their talents and reach their potential. As incomes grow, families are nourished and children are educated; you are breaking the chains of generational poverty. Job creation and community-building remain our hallmarks as our clients create employment for their neighbors, jump starting their local economies. In the first half of 2013, you helped Opportunity International:
• Disburse over $498 million dollars to entrepreneurs who invested the seed money to plant or grow income-generating microbusinesses.
• Establish a secure way to save for more than 1.2 million families, bringing stability to their lives - an opportunity most had never encountered.
• Train 2.7 million entrepreneurs and staff through our targeted financial literacy and personal and social development programs.
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