

The Opportunity Mission is to provide opportunities for people in chronic poverty to improve their lives.
The Opportunity Strategy is to create jobs, stimulate small businesses and strengthen communities among the poor.
The Opportunity Method is to work through our indigenous partners to provide microfinance services, training and counsel.
The Opportunity Motivation is the call of Jesus to serve the poor.
The Opportunity Core Values are respect, commitment to the poor, integrity, stewardship and transformation.
The Opportunity Commitment is to serve men and women of all faiths and no faith.
Why We Are Different
With more than 35 years of experience in the microfinance
sector, Opportunity International provides
secure and affordable access to financial services to the entrepreneurial poor
in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and
We are motivated by Jesus Christ's call to serve the poor.
We are known within the industry for our culture of innovation, commitment to partnership and unwavering focus on serving the world's poor.
We have adopted a triple bottom-line approach, measuring success on three levels: transformation, outreach and sustainability.
With regard to transformation, we seek holistic change and aim to address the economic, social and spiritual aspects of our clients’ lives. Therefore, in addition to microfinancial services, we provide business and life skills training to support our clients as individuals, not just as loan recipients. We are able to sustain this integrated approach on a large scale (we have over 1.1 million clients) and in a cost effective method (our operational sustainability is 105%).
We offer a “hand-up” through banking services, not just a
“handout.”