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March 12, 2021
By Opportunity International
On Saturday, February 20, 2021, we presented the first of a series of 50th anniversary awards. The first Founders Circle Awards went to a group of Opportunity International pioneers who helped us innovate our strategies and programs to better serve clients. These awards celebrate the earliest days of initiatives that have come to define Opportunity s work and we are so excited to go back and remember how these programs began.
In 2004, a young Opportunity International employee wrote a white paper for his boss. He saw HIV/AIDS ravaging communities in Africa, and he postulated that our Trust Groups in Africa would be broken by this crisis. His fear was that in this scenario where neighbors successes were inextricably linked to each other, Trust Groups wouldn t permit a neighbor into the group if they knew they could become ill and die.