A key element in World Vision’s approaches to building improved and resilient livelihoods is the promotion of community-based savings groups. Also known as Saving for Transformation groups, these consist of community...

Many smallholder farmers in Malawi face overwhelming challenges to making a living. Their climate is unpredictable, with increasingly variable rainfall and frequent drought. They have little or no access to training...

Microfinance empowers families to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.

When we begin working in a community, a common challenge is the predominant worldview—how people see and interpret their world. In some places, generations of poverty and oppression have caused people to believe they...

Progress Report: Fiscal Year 2021

The integrated THRIVE (Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments) model continues to change lives in our target countries: Honduras, Malawi, Rwanda, and Zambia.

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Of the 689 million people around the world who live in extreme poverty, most are smallholder farmers whose livelihoods are vulnerable to economic uncertainties, weather, and shocks like natural disasters. And...

Millions of smallholder farmers want to change their circumstances but cannot seem to break out of extreme poverty. They not only lack skills and resources to make their farms more profitable but are also held back...

THRIVE—Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments—focuses on family-level change and is proven to dramatically increase household incomes, resulting in stronger and more self-sufficient families....

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a simple, scalable, sustainable land management approach that empowers farmers to stop and reverse land degradation through regrowing trees on farmlands, on grazing...