Tackling Family Poverty Globally

Ending the cycle of poverty

Wherever they’re growing up, extreme poverty is devastating for children's development. We work with families to break the cycle of poverty so that the most vulnerable children can reach their full potential. Our work addresses the underlying causes of child poverty: food insecurity, vulnerability to climatic events, and lack of access to markets and financial services.

Training and small loans, as well as tools and resources to build self-reliance are key to helping hard-working people leave poverty behind. With our unique community-based model, refined and expanded over our 70-year history, we’re able to offer the hand up that people need to get — and stay — on their feet.

Supporting families to provide

We help families build knowledge, skills and resources to support themselves.

A woman and her sons stand in a field in South Sudan with the goats she bought through the community saving group

Savings groups

We support communities to start savings groups — member-owned and community run groups that allow people to save together in a safe, convenient and flexible way, whereby savings can be lent to members as credit. Ayom's sons can thrive, thanks to income from goats she bought via her village saving group. This group and others like it in South Sudan have helped to revive many local women’s small businesses, bringing hope and support amid COVID-19.

Three generations of a family from Armenia pick raspberries after attending agricultural training

Seeds and Training

We help families to help themselves — providing training and resources needed to support people to start their own businesses, as well as provide food for their families. Larisa’s grandchildren benefit from World Vision's agricultural training that has helped to create a successful raspberry producers’ group in Armenia, increasing family incomes in the process.

Members of a Bee Keepers Group in Eswatini (Swaziland) join together to harvest the first hives that were provided to help diversify their family incomesMembers of a Bee Keepers Group in Eswatini (Swaziland) join together to harvest the first hives that were provided to help diversify their family incomes

Income Resilience

We encourage farmers to diversify their crops to ensure that they aren't too reliant on one source of income that could be affected by adverse weather or a disaster. Children in Eswatini (Swaziland) will benefit from their community's beekeeping and business skills training. These diversify income distribution and increase the resilience of small, vulnerable farming households.

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Scholarships

Children like Soknet from Cambodia can pursue their education because they are supported, not only at home but through their schools. With World Vision, Soknet's school introduced a food scholarship for children whose families were struggling and for those who received the scholarship, their attendance improved from 60% to 95%.

In a world where 1 in 9 people don’t have enough food to eat, you can:

Give families the resources to earn an income and self-sufficiency

Support farmers to diversify and gain skills to overcome poverty

Build community resilience through savings groups

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Family incomes

Ending the cycle of poverty

Every 60 seconds a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Supporting families to provide

Savings groups

Seeds and Training

Income Resilience

Scholarships

We’ve established over 21,928 savings groups with 394,209 members saving over £9 million to date

Discover more about our work

Family incomes

Ending the cycle of poverty

Every 60 seconds a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Supporting families to provide

Savings groups

Seeds and Training

Income Resilience

Scholarships

We’ve established over 21,928 savings groups with 394,209 members saving over £9 million to date

Discover more about our work

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