Patricia Sirma, a business mentor in Bungoma, Kenya, holds a large plastic bottle with many holes on the bottom, in front of a room full of fellow Village Enterprise business…

Three business owners in Paicho, a sub-region of Gulu, Uganda, lead Village Enterprise team members through thick grasses, along long, winding, dirt paths, to a large field where small, light…

It’s a bright morning in Gulu, Uganda when Aneno Juliet, the Village Enterprise Innovations Coordinator, and I begin the thirty-minute drive to Paicho, a sub-region of Gulu. We collect Zita…
In the 30 years since Village Enterprise was founded, a lot has changed. Our program has grown tremendously in both scale and nuance. We’ve embraced innovative digital solutions for data…

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…

Innovation conjures images of people in white coats examining test tubes with awe. Or the CEO of a trendy tech start up, dressed all in black, introducing a revolutionary…

Sketching the Way to Business Success: Working with Business Owners to Create a Visual Business Plan
It is a fundamental practice for any business to create a business plan and Village Enterprise funded businesses are no different. We believe in the importance of our business owners…

The coin flip. From determining the kickoff in American football to deciding who gets the last mandazi (doughnut) in Kenya, coin flipping is a practice that crosses cultures. But what…

Village Enterprise was featured in an OZY article on farming mobile innovations. Check out the story below: For more than two centuries, The Old Farmer’s Almanac seemed to hold the answer…

On February 10th and 11th, 2014, Village Enterprise hosted a workshop in Kampala entitled Five Acres or Less: Agricultural Planning for Small-Scale Farmers in East Africa. This event, which brought…