About Village Enterprise
Community-based and African-led, Village Enterprise is working to end extreme poverty in rural Africa.
With over 30 years of experience working in rural Africa, the Village Enterprise team is guided by our core values of ubuntu, passion, integrity, innovation, and sustainability. We work closely with the communities we serve to create and implement solutions that build self-reliance, financial inclusion, and resilience.
Who we are
Our mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. We are an African-led team which envisions a world free of extreme poverty, where people have the means to sustain their families. Our cutting-edge organization is driven by data, consistent evaluation of our programs, and commitment to improving our program through human-centered design and lean impact approaches.
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Where we are going
Our goal is to transform 20 million lives by 2030. Over the coming years, we will continue to expand our work in Africa well beyond Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, the DRC, and Mozambique. Building on our past experience of lifting over one million Africans out of extreme poverty, we will collaborate with partners to scale up our poverty alleviation work while also driving advocacy efforts.
We are constantly evolving our organization to ensure that we have best practices in place and remain at the forefront of the poverty alleviation sector. As we looked to the future, we formulated a three-year strategic plan with five interrelated priorities — all building upon the core focus of entrepreneurship to end extreme poverty.
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