article / ოქტომბერი 10, 2018
From Ghana to Sri Lanka; A Communicator’s Experience
Winner of VisionFund's internal competition for communicators is awarded trip to visit Microfinance Institution in Sri Lanka.
press release / ნოემბერი 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 / ოქტომბერი 3, 2019
She Does it All: Veggies, Sewing and More
Munguntsetseg (41) is one of the hard working farmers in Mandal soum who grows vegetables such as potato, carrot, onion and supplies the community with fresh healthy vegetables.
video / მარტი 22, 2022
The Healthcare Hero of Hmawbi Township
Phyu Phyu (49 years.) is a wife, mother of three children, and licensed nurse who has faithfully served the Hmawbi Township clinic since 1996 as a nurse and midwife..
article / ოქტომბერი 11, 2017
The Future Is Bright
In this blog from Myanmar, the VisionFund team visits an education centre just outside the nation’s capital.
publication / აპრილი 20, 2021
VisionFund Myanmar | COVID-19 Response
Oct 2020 to Jan 2021 Highlights
article / თებერვალი 3, 2020
Expanding our Cashbox: Piloting Savings Group Linkage
VisionFund shares the impact of its microfinance insitutions' pilot program of Savings Group Linkage Loans to empower community savings groups in Africa.
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.