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Featured Photo: Students Singing at Nairobi’s Ongata Pine Breeze AcademyOctober 12, 2012Lillian Alwi, right, leads students in song at the Ongata Pine Breeze Academy outside Nairobi, Kenya. As school director, Alwi has used two loans from the Kenya Women’s Finance Trust (KWFT) to build Pine Breeze into a bustling source of hope for more than 500 children from a poor community in the Ngong Hills – “my passion,” she says. OPIC 
OPIC monitoring trip to KenyaOctober 09, 2012An interdepartmental OPIC team traveled to Kenya in June to monitor the performance of three financial institutions whose microfinance lending is supported by the agency: Musoni, the Kenya Women’s Finance Trust, and Equity Bank. Over the course of three days, members of OPIC’s Office of Investment Policy, Portfolio Management Department, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Finance Department, and Office of External 
Featured Photo: Support for OPIC’s Renewable Energy EffortOctober 05, 2012Lynn Tabernacki, OPIC’s Managing Director of Renewable and Clean Energy, right, leads a discussion with National Renewable Energy Laboratory staffers Laura Harrington, Adam Warren and Jeff Bedard (from left), and OPIC’s Sarah Carta. National Renewable Energy Laboratory supports OPIC’s renewable energy & energy efficiency effort The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) – the only national laboratory which takes renewable energy Monthly News Wrap-Up: September 2012October 03, 2012Last month, the General Assembly of the United Nations convened to begin the General Debate of the 67th Session and leaders from 193 countries congregated in New York City to discuss some of the world’s toughest issues. As reported by the State Department, some of the United States’ priorities include building on the progress made toward achieving the Millennium Development Why Small Businesses in the Pacific Northwest Should Expand and Invest AbroadOctober 02, 2012By Elizabeth Littlefield Wade Rain is a small family-owned business in Tualtin, Oregon that distributes irrigation equipment – most of which is made in the United States. About ten years ago, the company saw an opportunity to expand into Mexico, where heavy farming and light rainfall have combined to deplete the water table. Wade Rain knew that the irrigation equipment 
At U.N. and CGI, U.S. highlights importance of collaboration in addressing world’s biggest problemsOctober 01, 2012The need to form partnerships and collaborate emerged as a common theme over the past week as top world leaders converged in New York for both the 67th General Assembly of the United Nations and the Clinton Global Initiative. President Barack Obama spoke at the United Nations of “an interdependent world (where) all of us have a stake in working 
Featured Photo: Elizabeth Littlefield meets with Malawian president in New YorkSeptember 28, 2012OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield met with Malawian President Joyce Banda this week at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Their meeting coincided with the opening of the 67th session of the U.N, General Assembly and Ms. Littlefield’s participation in the Clinton Global Initiative. Ms. Littlefield said OPIC in interested in helping Malawi develop its economy and create 
September Board Meeting: Priorities renewed and newerSeptember 26, 2012At its September meeting, OPIC’s Board of Directors kept the agency’s focus trained on priority sectors – renewable resources; food security and safe drinking water; and small and medium size businesses (SMEs) – and added another: the growing middle class in emerging markets, which stand to transform developing countries in the coming years. Be it Africa, where 100 million households OPIC to host Expanding Horizons workshop for small businesses, October 3 in SeattleSeptember 25, 2012As more U.S. small businesses participate in the global marketplace, they are facing new questions and challenges. Expanding Horizons, a workshop for small businesses entering international markets, helps entrepreneurs explore new opportunities that can help strengthen their business at home and abroad. Join OPIC at Expanding Horizons in Seattle on October 3, 2012 and learn about the government programs and financial 
Featured Photo: The Harmelia sunflower farm in UkraineSeptember 21, 2012The Harmelia sunflower farm near Kharkiv in Ukraine, the world’s largest producer of sunflower oil. OPIC is an investor in the project through its support for the SigmaBleyzer Investment Fund for Southeast Europe. The project is having a positive developmental impact to Ukraine by introducing advanced crop management technology to the farm, which also produces, corn, wheat and rapeseed. |
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