article / October 18, 2018
Farmer Elena
“I started growing sheep with my grandpa. It was a way to save some money,” Elena says. She then got married and she had the idea to start raising cattle to sell the beef to butchers in the municipality.
article / March 23, 2022
Loans to Improve Community Access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
Written by Kaitlin McGarvey, North America Fundraising Manager, VisionFund International
article / November 19, 2020
Sanitation and Hygene Acces Empowers Ugandan Families
“Little children in the community used to see me when I would go to defecate in the bushes,” says Sarah Nakajjoba, a mother living in Kyalulangira, a sub-county in Rakai district, south-western Uganda.
press release / March 10, 2020
VisionFund Brings Financial Inclusion to Ugandan Refugees
First branch opened with another three planned in 2020
First microfinance organisation to serve refugee groups at scale with group loans in Palorinya settlement
article / October 10, 2019
Women Farmers THRIVE in Malawi
In Ireen Madzumbi's community, World Vision's THRIVE project taught farmers new ways to farm. Ireen learned she could grow crops all year long by using water from ponds on her property. She learned that vegetables, like beans and potatoes, could be planted together at the same time.
article / October 26, 2018
Leading within the community
With money received as wedding gifts, Zar and her husband started a retail business three years ago.
press release / June 25, 2018
VisionFund Cambodia sold to Woori Bank of Korea
London, 25 June 2018 – After more than 20 years of providing financial services to hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, VisionFund International, the owner of a global network of microfinance institutions and part of World Vision International, a global Christian relief, development and advocacy