
As we look forward to all the things to come in 2020, we also are taking a look back at the incredible progress we made in 2019. It was a…
As we look forward to all the things to come in 2020, we also are taking a look back at the incredible progress we made in 2019. It was a…
When you give, you’re not just changing one life, you’re changing generations. My life was completely changed by one person who believed in me and invested in my future. Imagine…
I follow Santa through tall grasses, past banana plants that are slightly bent as if in a mid-bow after a tremendous ballet, and by sorghum and maize fields. She pushes…
This month, Village Enterprise celebrates reaching the one-millionth life influenced by our work in poverty alleviation. One million lives is hard for me to get my head around. It’s easier…
In May of 2017, Anik Singal reached out to Village Enterprise with a generous offer to “Fund-a-Village” out of extreme poverty for $25,000. How one might reasonably ask, is this…
When Rose Achieng and her fellow business owners, Christine and Benta started their small business, they never imagine what it could become. However, over the past year, their first as…
Every night, Lillian would scrape together whatever money she could find and prepare a simple meal for her family. She would put her children to bed and then, exhausted, she…
I once sat down and calculated that there are a collective 15,000 kilometers between our offices in Kenya, Uganda, and California. Each day, we attempt to make those 15,000 kilometers…
When Anna, Stephen, and Julius received their first installment of seed capital last July, they started small. They launched a small business buying cabbages at the weekly market and selling them…
We call them business mentors. To our business owners, they are simply mwalimu, Swahili for teacher. But the 55 people who drive our program, our impact, and our mission every…