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Marianny: A Young Mother Sewing a Better Future in Venezuela

Marianny, a young mother from Bolívar, Venezuela, turned her passion for sewing into a business with support from World Vision.

Members of savings groups after receiving loans through the FAST programme.

Transforming Lives: The Impact of the FAST Programme on Sakhisiwe and Cebolethu Savings Groups in Eswatini

In Eswatini, Sakhisiwe Savings Group and Cebolethu Association, part of World Vision’s Mahlalini Area Programme in the Shiselweni region, are experiencing...

Germaine shows us the beef she bought with credit from the AVEC group.

Economic Development

“I have become a woman head of household in my community”, thanks PROSECA project

Thanks to the PROSECA Project's Village Savings and Credit Association (AVEC), Germaine transitioned from selling local beer to becoming a respected head...

This is how the management of the Saving Groups is composed of. Women are the majority and most of the times the leaders of the group.

Empowerment Through Savings: How Financial Groups Are Transforming Lives in Northern Mozambique

Community members in rural Mozambique where financial services demanding formalities that members hardly meet to acquire loans to fund their business among...

Empowering Livelihoods: Building Sustainable Futures in Venezuela

World Vision Venezuela empowers communities by providing tools for sustainable livelihoods, fostering entrepreneurship, and improving family well-being.

Finance Empowerment

Ultra Poor Graduation Approach

World Vision Syria Response launched a multi-layered intervention tackling the root cause of poverty targeting 64000 households with the following services...

The Story of Afishata

Empowering Rural Women through Financial Inclusion: The Story of Afishata

Afishata, a Rural Woman Empowered through Financial Inclusion in Ghana

Afishata's journey took a significant turn when she joined the Nabori Savings for Transformation (S4T) group. This is part of the Village Savings and Loans...

Vietnamese member of the Building Secure Livelihoods project stands infront of crops

Weather insurance plus farming techniques make farmers more resilient to the climate crisis

Climate resilience expert Ngo Tho Hung explains an innovative approach to helping Vietnamese farming families cope when crops fail.

World Vision Zambia National Director John Hasse and Absa Bank PLC Chief Executive Officer Mizinga Melu holding the dummy cheque after signing the MoU

How banking and humanitarian work go hand in hand

It might surprise you, but banks and aid agencies have more in common that you might think, and, according to John Teng, a chance to collaborate for good.

Empowered mother stands with her son

What happens when… A mother gets a way to save money?

This article looks at five things that happen when a mother gets a way to save money.

Annual Report Video Format World Vision Niger

We have the immense joy and privilege of presenting to you the annual report in video format which traces the work that has been done on the ground in 2021...

Two young people on a step in Ecuador eating ice cream

What youth need to succeed and escape cycles of poverty

On World Youth Skills Day 2022, Dr Tendai Chigavazira considers the blocks to youth employment and some key methods for overcoming them.

Women savings group in Rwanda

Savings Groups: Empowering Mothers, Protecting Children

By Angeline Munzara, Global Sector Leader, Livelihoods, World Vision International Why Savings for Mothers? A family without savings is unable to sustain...

JBK visits World Vision work in the field

I Saw Poverty for the First Time in the Desert

Dr. Jean Baptiste Kamante, reflects on his time with World Vision, coming face-to-face with poverty and how microfinance is a vital part of our work in...

Grace

THRIVE transforms Grace’s life.

Grace Bwalya, a 48-year-old mother of two, is regarded as a role model for other women in Mpika District, Muchinga Province, because to her tenacity. When...

By Aggrey K. Nyondwa, Sam Opio and Loma Wani Agnes can manage to eat three meals a day Agnes Jagoro, 37, is a happy woman. She fled conflict in South Sudan in 2016 to Uganda where she expected to settle down and start over again. She lost relatives and friends to the conflict. She lost her business and her children’s school was disrupted. In 2018, after two years of struggling as a refugee, she joined other people from her village in Bidibidi refugee settlement to form a savings group called “God Knows,”

World Vision, VisionFund come together to transform lives of refugee women and children in Uganda

In March 2021, Agnes’ group received a UGX 4 million (US$1,080) loan from VisionFund, a World Vision microfinance subsidiary, to help boost their...

refugees in Uganda

Lending to refugees: How impossible becomes possible

Martina challenges the finance sector to think again about how risky refugees are when it comes to loaning them money.

Child refugees fleeing Venezuela

Is lending to refugees, emigrants, or asylum seekers a wise choice?

Edgar makes us think again about how we treat displaced people who turn up on our doorstep asking for help . By Edgar S. Martinez Refugees. Emigrants...

Responding to needs in Drc

Dreaming a possible dream – excellence in all we do

It is not enough to want to do good, argues Stephen, we have to be professional in the way we do it, and ensure children, communities and our donors can...

Digital savings

Minding the (financial and digital) gap!

In every context, strengthening the links between cash transfers, savings groups and digitisation contributes to resilient recovery from COVID-19, say the...

Digital programming South Sudan

If digitisation is a winner, who or what loses?

COVID-19 has helped to move efforts to go digital forward at a greater pace, bringing huge benefits but, Colin asks, at what cost?

Mobile health app

Surveillance capitalism – and aid

When debating the ups and downs of cash transfers, the concept of choice hangs over us, writes Amos

Young people sit around a bowl of savings

Both children and adults bank on the success of savings groups

By Angeline Munzara, Global Senior Advisor, Livelihoods. Even though I have been passionate about improving people’s livelihoods for sixteen years, and...

Bernadette with her saving savings group members

Lifting Communities Out of Poverty, One Loan at a Time

Bernadette Uwitonze is a single mother of two boys, Gentil, 7, and Chance, 14. They reside with her parents in Rutsiro district in the western region of...