Current Grantees
Ghana
Groundswell International
Groundswell International supports dryland farmers to build resilience to climate change and to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security using agroecological approaches. Our funding supports programs in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal.
Guatemala
The Garden's Edge
The Garden’s Edge works to revitalize cultural knowledge and improve well-being through sustainable agriculture, micro-enterprise, and education. Our funding supports families to improve household nutrition through backyard gardens, nutrition classes, and health screenings for young children.
Trickle Up
Trickle Up implements a Graduation Model program that provides seed-funds and training for young women to start small businesses. Trickle Up also provides reproductive health education to men and women to promote healthy birth spacing and lower the rate of teenage pregnancy.
Haiti
Sonji Ayiti Organization
Sonji Ayiti Organization is a Haitian-led nonprofit whose mission is to uplift the Haitian community through education, economic development, and health promotion. Sonji Ayiti manages two community restaurants in the communities of Paulette and Phaeton and supports the communities through a microcredit business.
Fonkoze
Fonkoze provides financial and non-financial services to empower Haitians (primarily women) to lift their families out of poverty. The program includes a cash transfer and intensive coaching to launch an income generating activity. Fonkoze partners with Sonje Ayiti (above) to implement their poverty graduation program in Northern Haiti.
HEMP-FEED
Haiti Educational Mission and Ministry Partnership (HEMP) is a US-based charity that works with their local partner, FEED, to address education needs in Paulette, Haiti. Through the VVF grant, children receive daily school lunches in two schools in Paulette.
India
Upaya Social Ventures
Upaya works to support ultra-poor individuals through job creation. Upaya invests in early stage business entrepreneurs to help build their businesses and ultimately employ thousands of ultra-poor individuals.
Kenya
The BOMA Project
The BOMA Project delivers a Graduation Model program uniquely adapted to the arid lands of Northern Kenya. With VVF’s support, BOMA is expanding their program, which includes livelihood development and family planning education, to women and men in Marsabit and Samburu Counties.
Kenya Drylands Education Fund
KDEF is a local Kenyan organization whose mission is to address poverty in rural, Northern Kenya. With VVF’s support, KDEF works alongside pastoralist communities to identify, analyze and solve development challenges, including access to clean water and education.
Malawi
Footsteps Africa
Footsteps Africa works at the intersection of poverty and gender inequality to promote sustainable livelihoods, access to clean water, healthcare, and education.
Action for Environmental Sustainability
Action for Environmental Sustainability (AfES) works to address the root causes of poverty and environmental degradation in Southern Malawi. With VVF’s support, AfES is installing gravity fed irrigation schemes and providing training on conservation agriculture techniques for community farmers and gardeners.
PumpAid
PumpAid works to improve the health of rural communities in Malawi. With our support, PumpAid improves access to water and sanitation at community-based childcare centers, and established kitchen gardens at those childcare centers to improve diet and nutrition for the children who attend everyday.
Myanmar
Shanta Foundation
Shanta Foundation implements community-driven programs in health, education, livelihoods, and infrastructure. With our funding, Shanta Foundation is expanding their program to the Pauk region.
Peru
DESEA PERU
DESEA PERU supports Andean communities near Machu Picchu to improve their access to clean water and health care. With our support, DESEA PERU provides training for community health workers to detect and treat common illnesses and improve child and maternal health.
Senegal
Andando Foundation
Andando works to support whole communities in Senegal. They establish community gardens, improve school conditions, and support a literacy and numeracy training center. With our support, Andando supports over 15 garden groups and is expanding operations into the Podor region in the north.
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!)
CREATE! helps communities to be more resilient in the face of climate change. They promote women-run community gardens, provide training in agricultural techniques, and form Voluntary Savings and Lending Associations (VSLA). With our support, CREATE! supports over 15 garden groups in rural Senegal.
Tanzania
Africa Bridge
Africa Bridge empowers Tanzanian families to protect, support, and care for vulnerable children by helping villages implement sustainable social service and economic solutions. With our support, Africa Bridge supports the most vulnerable households in two districts through livestock and avocado co-ops and education and healthcare for children.
Uganda
Bega Kwa Bega
Bega Kwa Bega supports orphans and vulnerable children in remote Ugandan villages by working with the whole community. With our funding, Bega Kwa Bega supports mobile health clinics, agricultural trainings, and income generating activities for their program participants.\
The Water Trust
The Water Trust supports villages, schools, and health centers to equip communities to minimize preventable disease through improved water, sanitation, and hygiene. With our support, The Water Trust supports communities and schools to improve access to clean water and sanitation in Kiryandogo District.
Raising the Village
Raising The Village works to improve livelihoods in remote communities living in extreme poverty through community-designed projects. With our funding, Raising the Village supports 23 villages in Western Uganda to build sustainable livelihoods.
Spark Microgrants
Spark Microgrants enables communities to design and launch their own social impact projects. With our support, Spark Microgrants works with twelve villages in northern Uganda, enabling each to launch a project, improve economic wellbeing and build social bonds between refugee families and host communities.
Zimbabwe
Local Initiatives Development (LID) Agency
LID Agency implements a multi-sectoral program that includes the construction of clean water sources, promotion of community gardens, and improvement of crop storage practices. With our funding, LID Agency has supported dozens of communities in rural central Zimbabwe.
