The nonprofit Village Enterprise started out of a San Diego home. It's now a multi-million dollar organization that's lifted two million people out of extreme poverty in rural Africa by providing ...

Village Enterprise’s impact is driven by their passionate, talented African team. Studied by two rigorous, independent randomized controlled trials, which were conducted by Innovations for ...

Poverty across the continent may be lower than what current estimates suggest, though the number of people living in extreme poverty has grown substantially since 1990, according to the latest World ...

Largest USAID DIV grant for more than a decade will help Rwanda reach their goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 The grant will impact over 30,000 households in Rwanda, and empower the launch of ...

From Taddeo Muriuki, Chief Government Relations Officer, Village Enterprise, Nairobi, Kenya. ... David Pilling’s recent article champions large corporations as the panacea for Africa’s poverty ...

Economics. Magatte Wade on Africa, Foreign Aid, and Free Markets "We are poor because we don't let our entrepreneurs work," says the director of the Center for African Prosperity at the Atlas Network.

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children.

129 million in poverty. Poverty has soared to hit more than half of the population over the last six years, according to the World Bank. “Since 2018, the share of Nigerians living below the national ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As Women's History Month comes to a close, Village Enterprise is thrilled to announce a gift of $7 million from MacKenzie Scott that will have a ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As Women's History Month comes to a close, Village Enterprise is thrilled to announce a gift of $7 million from MacKenzie Scott that will have a ...