Tackling Family Poverty Globally

Ending the cycle of poverty

Extreme poverty is devastating for children's development, no matter where they are growing up. 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.

By promoting equality, inclusiveness, and sustainable economic growth, we can help end extreme poverty and allow at-risk children to reach their full potential.

Training and small loans, as well as tools and resources to build self-reliance are key to helping hardworking 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 poor 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.

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 relient 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 bee keeping and business skills training. These increase and diversify the products and resilience of small, vulnerable farming households.

A girl smiles at the camera as she gets her free school breakfast from volunteers at her school in Cambodia

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. 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

Together, we have supported people and communities to work their way out of poverty, disasters and exploitation across the world. In 2019 this support reached 3.6 million people, including 2 million children, by tackling the root causes of poverty.

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Supporting livelihoods by empowering women

World Vision has empowered thousands of women from vulnerable households in Kenya to practice climate-smart agriculture, new technologies and good practice. This helps support family incomes, food security, and resilience.