article / ოქტომბერი 26, 2018
Opportunities blossoming from family and children
Thin lives in a rural community a couple hour outside of Yangon, the capital city of Myanmar.
publication / ივნისი 22, 2022
VisionFund Impact Evaluation: Finance Accelerating Savings group Transformation
VisionFund commissioned 60_Decibels to conduct two impact evaluations in Malawi to determine if VisionFund´s FAST programme – lending to savings groups, accomplished our main programme objectives:
article / ოქტომბერი 14, 2019
Refugee Starts Again as a Locksmith
Alex is a man from Túquerres, a municipality in the department of Nariño - Colombia, located 57.4 km from the Ecuadorian city of Tulcán. The constant natural disasters and armed conflicts in the area has caused the economy to decline, making it unsustainable for Alex to remain in his place.
publication / დეკემბერი 2, 2022
Savings Linked Insurance for Resilience Report
VisionFund has been actively designing microinsurance products tailored to meet the needs of the clients we serve.
article / თებერვალი 17, 2017
Surviving Drought and Flooding
Alice and her husband, Sydney, have two daughters, Bennadett and Clemensia. They are part of the Mposa community in Machinga, Malawi. Their region suffered from a widespread drought, which destroyed the primary crops farmers planted for their livelihoods.
Recovery Loans from VisionFund have helped many families in the Mposa area rebuild their livelihoods after their maize crop failed twice due to drought and then floods.
Alice’s was one of them. She applied for a loan from VisionFund and invested it in growing vegetables, and later took another loan to purchase fertilizer and fuel for the communal pump that irrigates her vegetable garden. She was able to sell her vegetables at the local market to provide for her family’s needs. “If it wasn’t for the loan and these vegetables, I am sure that by today we would have sold our goats or split up the family in order to search for employment in the city,” said Sydney, who revealed that some households have adopted costly coping strategies such as withdrawing children from school and reducing food consumption which have long-term impact.
VisionFund has impacted 150 families in the Mposa region, by granting them loans to rebuild their livelihoods after their maize crop failed. Women use the income earned from growing vegetables to cover their daily needs, including their children’s school fees and health care costs.
article / იანვარი 11, 2019
Mobile Banking Propels Rwanda into Casheless Economy
The creation of a cashless economy is a significant aspect of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 strategy and the government is in the process of and is investing considerably in making all its financial transactions possible electronically or via mobile phones.