Shaker Painting's Global Impact
Service and philanthropy are core values at Shaker Painting and the principles that motivate our work. By partnering with us, you're contributing to global change through our continued connection and dedicated efforts at the global nonprofit Opportunity International.
For the last two years our Chief Operating Officer, Gwladys Kabore, has been an active member of Opportunity International. This organization provides innovative financial solutions to communities and families in developing countries living in extreme poverty. Assisting these individuals and communities in building sustainable livelihoods, accessing economic resources, and receiving quality education.
Opportunity International focuses on empowering marginalized communities through:
- Micro Financing: Providing financial literacy training, small loans, savings accounts, and other innovative financial services and education to support small business owners and entrepreneurs, enabling them to grow their businesses and support their families.
- Education Finance: Ensuring children, especially girls can access quality education. In turn, reducing poverty, inequality, increasing life expectancy, and empowering women. Additionally, ensuring schools have the resources and financial backing necessary to support and educate these children.
- Agriculture Finance: Training and supporting farmers to operate efficiently and produce greater yield, expand their businesses, and access to financial resources, promoting economic growth in rural areas.
Gwladys's involvement with Opportunity International is within a group called Women Warriors. Guided by the mission “women helping women”, this group supports women living in poverty create sustainable livelihoods and provide access to quality education for their children. This groups vision is to raise 6 million dollars by 2026 in order to support 10,000 families in Colombia, India, Ghana, and Uganda. Influenced by their values of respect, inclusion, growth, support, achievement, friendship, and fun, these women champion the poor through raising awareness to their cause fundraising and building community.
Partnering with Shaker Painting means supporting these critical efforts, ensuring continued support for education and entrepreneurship worldwide. Together, we can empower women to lift themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty.