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Equipping Refugees to Become Entrepreneurs through DREAMS
Like mothers the world over, Anna dreams of giving her children the best life possible, including access to high quality education and healthcare. But living in…
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Celebrating International Women’s Month
While Village Enterprise is, at its core, a poverty alleviation organization, 80% of their program participants are women and therefore they wholeheartedly celebrated International Women’s Month…
Village Enterprise Announced as Million Lives Club Vanguard Member
We are excited to announce that Village Enterprise has been selected as a new member of the Million Lives Club, an initiative inspired by members of the International Development…
Village Enterprise Empowers Female Leaders
When Village Enterprise business mentor Christine Birungi gets together with her female-led business savings groups, she recites a rhyme with the members “savings, savings, who are…
Village Enterprise’s Top 10 for 2019—With A Focus on Women
by Emily Fockler, Village Enterprise As Village Enterprise looks forward to all the things to come in 2020, we also are taking a look back at…
One Million Reached, One Business at a Time
By Katie Boland, Village Enterprise Board Chair In June, Village Enterprise celebrated reaching the one-millionth life influenced by our work in poverty alleviation. One million lives…
Helping refugees launch a new chapter with small businesses
Article and photos by Sadie Rose Zavgren, Village Enterprise In 2018, Village Enterprise partnered with Mercy Corps Uganda on a project funded by the ECHO Foundation…
Founders Pledge Endorses Village Enterprise as a Top Charity for Women’s Empowerment
By Lucy Valentine Wurtz, Director of Development and Communications, Village Enterprise Founders Pledge, a charity through which company founders and investors commit to donating a percentage of their…
Village Enterprise’s Innovations Summit and Human Centered Design
By Hannah McCandless, Village Enterprise Program Manager We’re obsessed with innovation. We love new stuff, fresh approaches, ground breaking solutions. When we think “innovation”, we tend to…
Investing in Mom-trepreneurs: why moms make the best entrepreneurs
By Hannah McCandless I get to meet a lot of moms. Over 75% of our business owners are women. And most of them, are moms. Using their small…
Entrepreneurship is a Skill, Not a Talent: The Power of the Group-Based Graduation Model
by Hannah McCandless, Program Associate, Village Enterprise About a year ago in Aduka Village, Uganda, Anna, Esther and Stephen received their first installment of seed…
‘There is nothing that a man can do that a woman cannot also do.’
by Hannah McCandless “We feel so empowered!” exclaimed one of the women in Bed Mot savings group in Olwelai Village. Empowerment. It’s a buzzword. As with…