Impact
- Average minimum wage: $0.27/Hour
- Loan Amount by SBF: USD 5,000
- Average New Loan Size: USD 439
- Repayment Rate: 99%
Opportunity Ghana currently serves across 44 branches to provide financial and non-financial services in rural and inaccessible areas.
Opportunity Ghana EduFinance Program focuses on providing quality of schools, curriculum and toilet facilities to keep girls in school together. EduFinance has an active base of 193 school improvement loans, 472 School fee loans that have impacted 50,000 children
Opportunity International has distributed 3,486 agricultural loans, created savings awareness and launched mobile money in 206 which has 30,980 registered users.
Opportunity Ghana provides banking and mobile training to farmers. Nearly half agricultural loans have been accessed by women and youth apprentice farmers.
Business: Lighting and Furniture Design Studio/Urban Gardening Technology
Her project, Live Screen, a hydroponic garden installation for the indoors, had won international recognition from Italy’s Winter Design Furniture Fair. With her newfound success, Danielle decided to start her own lighting and furniture design studio, focusing on a function-forward approach working with sustainable materials and local manufacturing companies.
Danielle had depleted any working capital she had to move her business forward and was seeking capital when she came across an article about the Tory Burch Foundation, which directed her to Accion. Danielle applied for a loan through Accion’s Sandy Recovery Program and received a $13,000 loan and a $1,950 grant to support her in building and testing a second Live Screen prototype, move to a different studio, and help her showcase her product at another furniture fair to large-scale manufacturers. With an Accion loan and grant, Danielle is able to continue growing her business of creating affordable urban gardening technology.
