Ghana’s agricultural landscape is impressive. A diversity of crops and favourable climatic conditions have enabled a vibrant agricultural sector and a...
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Agriculture has always been the lifeblood of Uganda's economy, with smallholder farmers constituting the majority of its working population. However, in...
Written by Edgar S. Martinez, President and International CEO at VisionFund International This International Women’s Day, we know that women and girls are...
Written by Miyon Kautz, Director, Marketing and Engagement, VisionFund “Love your neighbour as yourself” ( Lev. 19:18 ). Lazarus Chama, a Branch Manager of...
Martina Crailsheim , Director of Saving Group Linkage at VisionFund International reports positive repayment rates from Savings Groups in refugee contexts...
As a result of COVID-19, businesses and economies around the world are scrambling to survive. Disruptions caused by the pandemic and the policies...
Microfinance provider VisionFund Uganda conducted a survey of refugees community savings group members to understand how COVID-19 impacted rural...
VisionFund shares the impact of its microfinance insitutions' pilot program of Savings Group Linkage Loans to empower community savings groups in Africa.
By Martina Crailsheim, Director, VisionFund Savings Group Linkage VisionFund is making a bold strategic move to reach more vulnerable, rural communities by...
Maria considers herself a very social person, seeking the well-being and good quality of life for her family and therefore of others as well. Her family...
Melida is a very hard-working woman whose first business, that she began 15 years ago, was making corn tortillas. She learned the technique of making them...
Paola tells us that from an early age she had worked with her parents in the fields, and that ever since she was a child, they had instilled in her the...
Doña Beatriz is a weaver of the community of Llallagua, Bolivia. She has been a microfinance client for three years. Her community and the weaving work...
Don Irving has 32 years’ experience as a potter. He started learning in his uncle's workshop when he was just eight. Learning and perfecting the trade for...
Time was limited, a customer sat next to her, waiting to take her order, so Martha spoke to us while serving her. “I have been selling bedspreads and...
The wooden roller claps against rich firm layers of yarns, a laborious process which produces rolls of Kente, a bright colourful fabric. In the yarn house...
Samasey, a father of four, believes in Genesis 1.28. He opines that nobody was born to suffer and die for nothing. After years of trying various ventures...
A year ago in March, COVID 19 posed a threat to the survival of savings groups. To overcome this, VisionFund Ghana rolled out the Mobile Money Transaction...
Savings group number 14 in Nhan Buoi village, Vietnam has been accessing microfinance services since 2007. Group member Truong Thi Than shares that as...
Meet a savings group of hardworking farmers from the province of Chimborazo, in San Vicent, Ecuador. They are a humble people, very hardworking; always...
“I am a single mother; my (daughter) Ali is the one who gives me the strength to continue day by day, and for her I look for a thousand and one ways to...
As it is expected, in every new venture the road is bumpy. Mavis, a mother of four, well-known in the Duayaw Nkwanta Municipality, in Ghana as “Mavis...
Before COVID-19 hit Ghana in March 2020, Ebenezer and his then pregnant wife – Comfort Asamaning -survived with the income from his electric shop, which he...
Mrs. Manimegalai is a tailor by profession. She is 36 years old, married, and living in Thiruvarur District, India. Her husband is a carpenter by...
Penninah is the chairperson of her savings group Uka nuke. She is a mother of four – her first born is married and doing business of dressmaking and her...
Paula lives in Santa Clara Coatitla, Mexico. She bakes bread and sells it at her home and nearby a hospital along with coffee - so she has been providing...
“Life for me was never easy,” says Angelita. “It is true that it is complicated and much more so when the person you chose to be with as a couple decides...
Omaima, a former beautician lost all her clients due to social distancing: a key requirement that helped curb the spread of the virus. Using her third and...
Martina Crailsheim , Director for Saving Group Linkage at VisionFund International challenges the finance sector to think again about how risky refugees...
Written by Kaitlin McGarvey, North America Fundraising Manager, VisionFund International The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is...
Get to know Simon Ziba, as he shares about the importance of microfinance in Zambia, the MFI's use of innovation and digital technology to promote...
Mercy Ainomugisha, CEO of VisionFund Uganda shares perspective on expanding financial inclusion efforts among refugees and host communities As households...