Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Empowered Worldview: Rouka Douzané: From Community Savings to Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Rouka Douzané turned small savings into a thriving restaurant that now employs 13 people. She provides her community with both income opportunities and a welcoming space to gather. Beyond business, she champions women’s rights by fighting harmful practices like child marriage and gender-based violence. Her vision is to expand Empowered Worldview training to help more families break free from poverty and build lasting change.

Vietnamese member of the Building Secure Livelihoods project stands infront of crops

Weather insurance plus farming techniques make farmers more resilient to the climate crisis

Climate resilience expert Ngo Tho Hung explains an innovative approach to helping Vietnamese farming families cope when crops fail.

World Vision Zambia National Director John Hasse and Absa Bank PLC Chief Executive Officer Mizinga Melu holding the dummy cheque after signing the MoU

How banking and humanitarian work go hand in hand

It might surprise you, but banks and aid agencies have more in common that you might think, and, according to John Teng, a chance to collaborate for good.

Empowered mother stands with her son

What happens when… A mother gets a way to save money?

This article looks at five things that happen when a mother gets a way to save money.

Annual Report Video Format World Vision Niger

We have the immense joy and privilege of presenting to you the annual report in video format which traces the work that has been done on the ground in 2021...

Two young people on a step in Ecuador eating ice cream

What youth need to succeed and escape cycles of poverty

On World Youth Skills Day 2022, Dr Tendai Chigavazira considers the blocks to youth employment and some key methods for overcoming them.

Women savings group in Rwanda

Savings Groups: Empowering Mothers, Protecting Children

By Angeline Munzara, Global Sector Leader, Livelihoods, World Vision International Why Savings for Mothers? A family without savings is unable to sustain...

JBK visits World Vision work in the field

I Saw Poverty for the First Time in the Desert

Dr. Jean Baptiste Kamante, reflects on his time with World Vision, coming face-to-face with poverty and how microfinance is a vital part of our work in...

Grace

THRIVE transforms Grace’s life.

Grace Bwalya, a 48-year-old mother of two, is regarded as a role model for other women in Mpika District, Muchinga Province, because to her tenacity. When...

By Aggrey K. Nyondwa, Sam Opio and Loma Wani Agnes can manage to eat three meals a day Agnes Jagoro, 37, is a happy woman. She fled conflict in South Sudan in 2016 to Uganda where she expected to settle down and start over again. She lost relatives and friends to the conflict. She lost her business and her children’s school was disrupted. In 2018, after two years of struggling as a refugee, she joined other people from her village in Bidibidi refugee settlement to form a savings group called “God Knows,”

World Vision, VisionFund come together to transform lives of refugee women and children in Uganda

In March 2021, Agnes’ group received a UGX 4 million (US$1,080) loan from VisionFund, a World Vision microfinance subsidiary, to help boost their...

refugees in Uganda

Lending to refugees: How impossible becomes possible

Martina challenges the finance sector to think again about how risky refugees are when it comes to loaning them money.

Child refugees fleeing Venezuela

Is lending to refugees, emigrants, or asylum seekers a wise choice?

Edgar makes us think again about how we treat displaced people who turn up on our doorstep asking for help . By Edgar S. Martinez Refugees. Emigrants...

Responding to needs in Drc

Dreaming a possible dream – excellence in all we do

It is not enough to want to do good, argues Stephen, we have to be professional in the way we do it, and ensure children, communities and our donors can...

Digital savings

Minding the (financial and digital) gap!

In every context, strengthening the links between cash transfers, savings groups and digitisation contributes to resilient recovery from COVID-19, say the...

Bernadette with her saving savings group members

Lifting Communities Out of Poverty, One Loan at a Time

Bernadette Uwitonze is a single mother of two boys, Gentil, 7, and Chance, 14. They reside with her parents in Rutsiro district in the western region of...

Esperance in Burundi.

Cash: the glue that binds humanitarian and development work

By Kathryn Taetzsch Global Director, Cash-Based Programming World Vision International For too long, as practitioners of good aid, development and...

New-found confidence

Born with malformation in her legs and arms and bypassed by other villagers, Tham was recluse in her community. She chose to live a quiet life with her...

Reaching the most vulnerable through cash programmes

It’s a busy day for more than 100 families in Haibung Village Development Committee. They are receiving their cash slips as part of the Conditional Cash...

Child labourer finds hope

Phyu rushes out of her simple house of wood on stilts, covered with a thatched roof headed ‘to school’. On Phyu’s shoulder, instead of the school bag, a...

Increasing the price of crops through joint marketing

Joint marketing has not been widely recognized by most people in North Central Timor. Most farmers in this province market their crops individually without...

Rearing pigs to improve family economy

A pig rearing training organised with the help of World Vision, focused on income generation through professional livestock rearing using advanced...