It was founded by a Canadian EWB overseas volunteer and a Zambian coworker and provides alternative asset-based financing to rural Zambian entrepreneurs.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC): As you know, OPIC provides such assistance as financing and political risk insurance that enables companies and private equity funds to support infrastructure projects and other investments in developing countries.
Unfortunately, this definition ignores the fact that even a relatively small amount of money in equipment, technology, financing or other investments provided to state-sponsors of terrorism by foreign companies or overseas subsidiaries of U.S. companies can produce potentially disastrous risks to the share value and reputation of these companies, to say nothing of the national security of the United States.