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Near Term Strategy

Ambassador Forum

November 2009

Opportunity International Australia Limited


ABN 83 003 805 043 www.opportunity.org.au
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We believe in Sita

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Rich financial services products

• Flexible low cost credit

• Savings and term products

• Insurance
– Life
– Health
– Asset

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Building a scale MF delivery platform; Grow India,
Philippines and Indonesia; Enter Nepal

• India 20 million people

• Philippines 10 million people

• Nepal 1 million people?

• Indonesia 10 million people?

• Cambodia, Myanmar ?

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Sita …

• Lives in a rural village

• With her husband’s family

• Has 4 children living; two have died

• Is illiterate

• Spends 3 hours per day obtaining and transporting water

• Spends 3 hours per day obtaining fuel and cooking for her families needs

• Will eat last and is mildly malnourished

• Was ill three times last year

• Has a cow; which she bought recently but not enough water or fodder for it. Her last cow died

• Sells clothes which she sews at a little shop at the front of her dwelling

• Supports her family when her husband Ram a rural labourer is not working

• Lives on between 2 and 3US dollar per day

• Sends one of her children, the eldest son, to school; but the teacher is often absent

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Building a network for community transformation

Development Needs
and Priorities

Health, Education
Microfinance Development
Organisations Agencies

Clien
t
Livelihood
Communities of
Development
Players
Faith

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We’ll be successful when Sita…

• Is no longer hungry

• Has access to clean drinking water

• Has effective healthy shelter for herself and her family

• Has all the clothes she needs for her family

• Can read and write

• Can obtain effective affordable health care for herself and her family

• Gets a reasonable price for her produce

• Can send her children to school

• Isn’t at risk of losing everything from natural disasters

• Can participate fully as a valued member of her community

• Can choose and has the time to participate in a community of faith

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