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Annual Review 2015

By Robert Dunn

In a small village one hour outside of Jakarta, Indonesia, a young mother stood in front of a shop crying because of hunger. With two children by her side, she begged the shop owner to give them some food.

When my children started crying, I became even more upset. I wondered, ‘How could life be so unfair?’

Today this mother and her children are not crying anymore – they’re smiling.

Pictured on the cover of our 2015 Annual Review, Dewi and her daughter Nabila share a moment of joy and relief because they’ve been given something special. They’ve been given an opportunity by someone like you.

A small loan helped Dewi start a business weaving traditional bamboo rice cookers. She’s also hoping to start a small grocery store so that she never has to stand outside someone else’s shop and beg for food again. She wants to be able to give her children a full education so they won’t have to face the same struggles she has.

Dewi’s just one of 3.5 million people across Asia who was given an opportunity to receive a small loan, grow a business and begin to work their way out of poverty in 2015. More than 635,000 other families in India were touched by life-changing, preventative health education. Another 17,391 people used special loans for their farms in the Philippines and 70 young leaders graduated from trade apprenticeships in Ghana, ready to become the thinkers and change-makers of tomorrow.

We’re on the road to providing more than 20 million opportunities by 2020 – and we know it’s possible with your support.

Read more about all the ways you are giving opportunity to families in need in our latest Annual Review.

Thanks of you, their sadness is turning into joy, their lack into enough and their dreams into reality. We are so grateful for you.

Robert Dunn is Opportunity International Australia's Chief Executive Officer.

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