Together, we can end extreme poverty in our lifetime, for God's glory.
We work alongside people living on less than $2.15 per day and offer a set of proven tools that inspire and equip the heart, the mind, and the pocket.
It’s working.When people see themselves as God sees them and gain access to new information, knowledge, and tools – they can and do begin to thrive.
2030 GOAL
Equip everyone, everywhere we work in 11 countries – at least 10 million* people - with access to the tools they need to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
*Reach will require additional support from other sources such as public grants, gifts-in-kind, field offices, and other funding sources.
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The need
Although progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty in the last 40 years, millions of people still live on less than $2.15 per day per person.
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After generations of poverty, many people have developed mindsets of dependency and despondency that prevent them from breaking the cycle.
The vast majority of the extreme poor live in rural areas and are made up of smallholder farmers and small business owners trying to eke out a living without access to tools that can help them lift their families out of poverty.
Children living in extreme poverty suffer most because their parents often can’t afford to feed them more than one small meal a day, much less support their education.
Our response
Our THRIVE approach includes four sequential components that are proven to improve incomes, resilience, and food security.
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Biblical Empowered Worldview Training - Knowing that lasting change begins in the heart and mind, we teach a powerful scripture-based view of identity, responsibility, and accountability through which participants build confidence and shift mindsets from dependence to agency.
Savings Groups - To put this agency into action, we help organize savings groups where participants increase their knowledge of financial basics and disciplines. They save and lend money together which builds community and increases momentum.
Market Knowledge and Access - To help move small farms and businesses increase profitability, participants gain access to business training, farming guidance, vital market information, digital tools, coaching, and support.
Lending to Savings Groups - Once savings groups are mature, we offer them loans to accelerate growth, and improve or expand their farms and small businesses.
Our impact
By 2030, we will equip everyone, everywhere we work in 11 countries - at least 10 million people - with access to the tools they need to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
In a 2024, a Limestone Analytics study of World Vision's THRIVE program revealed a 667% return on investment, with every dollar invested yielding $6.67 in economic benefits for families.
THRIVE: “Outperforms other agricultural interventions targeting smallholder farmers” – compared to public sector projects they have evaluated. [Its] positive impact is not only statistically significant but also substantial.” — Limestone Analytics
With your partnership, see the impact we’re making. Click here to view the Economic Empowerment Impact Summary.
2.4M people reached
In 2024, we have already reached 2,408,425 people - 123% of our target for the year.
127K loans provided
In 2024, 127,915 savings group members were provided a loan to increase their farm or business. 74% of those receiving a loan were women.
$12M in savings
One way we measure the impact of THRIVE is through the cumulative savings from savings groups. In 2024, more than $12 million in savings was accounted for from savings groups. That was 330% above the target for the year.
We are blessed to partner with hundreds of Christian philanthropists and couldn’t do this work without them. And we’re able to reach more people because of our highly collaborative local and global partnerships within private and public sectors.
Robin Phillips
donor partner, Michigan
“We met a Rwandan woman farmer...she said, 'I thank God, World Vision, and this project because with what I have been taught, and what I know now, I am not in poverty anymore, … and I will never go back!”
Sandy Hoover
donor partner, South Dakota (with her husband Bob)
“I think one of the things that really touched us was these people. They don't want a handout. They want to be able to work for what they have. We believe in a hand up not a handout.”
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