article / Oktobar 4, 2019
Award Winning Weaver
At first, Cay started weaving brocade with one loom. She now runs a brocade weaving workshop, generating jobs to nearly 30 ethnic minority women in Lang Chanh. Cay is among more than 7,000 clients of World Vision's microfinance unit (MFU) in Vietnam.
article / Juni 15, 2020
Beyond client relationship
VisionFund Malawi was blessed to provide an insurance payout to our client Stella, who recently and tragically lost her son. Clients like Stella automatically have life insurance as part of their loans with VisionFund, which extends to the whole family, to ensure that families can put their econo
publication / Septembar 12, 2019
Saving Group Quality Assessment
The Saving Group community have created a Group Quality Assessment check which is an excellent way for financial service providers to identify cohesive groups. VisionFund have added other ways of preparing groups for linkage.
article / Oktobar 23, 2019
Loan Leads to Respect in His Village
Manzirou is a client of Falo RMCR, Mali; a 54 year old husband and father of five children, two of whom are in school. He is a member of the group Sigite Mason Kala. He’s involved in sheep farming. He is in his ninth loan cycle with an amount of three hundred thousand (300,000 FCFA).
article / Oktobar 17, 2019
Creating Beauty with African Fabrics
Madam Célestine Nyangi BUEYA is at her fourth group credit cycle with VisionFund DRC to open a shop selling African fabrics.
press release / Novembar 12, 2013
Quick Quick Banking
VisionFund is the latest microfinance organisation to join the cashless banking market. Its clients in Arusha, Tanzania can now receive and pay loans direct from their mobile phones through a the recently developed programme known locally as VFT chap chap (meaning quick quick).
article / Septembar 16, 2019
Recovery Loans Help After a Fire
Life can be cruel at times. This is a story of a woman entrepreneur, who invested all her energy and funds to boost up her family's livelihood by engaging in a cosmetic business in the Lilongwe market.
article / Juni 21, 2021
Financial Inclusion for Ugandan Refugees
Mercy Ainomugisha, CEO of VisionFund Uganda shares perspective on expanding financial inclusion efforts among refugees and host communities
article / Oktobar 17, 2019
Salima's Story
Madam Salima DIADI learned through a friend that VisionFund grants credit; she had already taken out a loan so was familiar with the process. She joined a group of five other people getting loans, and she started with a loan of US $400 and her latest loan is for