article / June 1, 2019
A Mother of 11 Children Wants a Better Future
Fatou sits at the busy marketplace in the town of Tamba, Senegal; baskets of mangoes laid out before her. She buys them from her village and transports them to the market early every morning.
article / November 19, 2021
Building her children’s future
“When I work, and sweat runs down my face, I don’t think of it as water leaving my body; to me, it’s building the future of my children: sweat as the mortar, VisionFund loan as the brick.”
press release / January 11, 2016
UK Government Awards Grant for El Niño Response
Families devastated by what is predicted to be particularly severe El Niño weather patterns in six African countries are to benefit from small loans to rebuild their livelihoods, following a £2 million ‘returnable grant’ from the UK Government to aid agency World Vision UK and its microfinance pa
article / February 1, 2022
Business Diversity means Surviving a Crisis
I am glad we didn't rely on just one business. Our pig breeding and rice mill business, together with the continuing support of VisionFund, will see us through this crisis.
press release / November 2, 2015
VF Zambia Partners with FSD Zambia for FI2020 Week
VisionFund Zambia (VFZ), part of VisionFund International’s network of more than thirty microfinance institutions, is partnering with Financial Sector Deepening Zamb
page / October 2, 2019
Kenya | Locations
Head Office
Karen Road, Off Ngong Road
P.O BOX 1676-00200 Nairobi
Email: info@visionfundkenya.co.ke
Phone Numbers: 0722200402 / 0723786990
article / October 19, 2019
Bathing Suits, Beaches and Profit
Among sewing machines, large rolls of fabric in vivid colours, threads in the floor and her 11 employees working devotedly, Dalila recalls calmly the most difficult times in her business: divorce, depression and over indebtedness. “Bad decisions led me there”.
article / May 16, 2015
New Homes for Tea Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka
“I moved into our living room with my wife when I got married,” says 30 year old Wilson who comes from a tea-plucker family.
article / November 19, 2021
A father’s responsibility
The Arthurs - Mr. Ebenezer Arthur, his wife Abigail and their two daughters (Louis and Elis) run a home-to-home laundry service. In 2020 their home-based laundry business was threatened by COVID 19, a year after he accessed the financial services of VisionFund.