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Bolivia: A Family With Hope

Bolivia: A Family With Hope

This month our country of focus is Bolivia, where World Vision’s Strong Women, Strong World initiative is providing financial training, services and savings groups for entrepreneurs in Bolivia. Loans are offered to disadvantaged Bolivians, allowing them to generate income through…

India: Tuberculosis stalks the young

India: Tuberculosis stalks the young

With an estimated 2 million cases annually, India has the world’s highest burden of tuberculosis, about 20 percent of the world’s infections. The World Health Organization estimates that each year, as many as 320,000 people there die of the disease….

Bolivia: Knitting Opportunities of Development

This month our country of focus is Bolivia, where World Vision’s Strong Women, Strong World initiative is providing financial training, services and savings groups for women entrepreneurs in Bolivia. Loans are offered to disadvantaged Bolivians, allowing them to generate income…

Bolivia: Selling ice cream fulfills a dream

This month our country of focus is Bolivia, where World Vision’s Strong Women, Strong World initiative is providing financial training, services and savings groups for women entrepreneurs in Bolivia. Loans are offered to disadvantaged Bolivians, allowing them to generate income…

VisionFund: A Decade of Impact

It’s been ten years since World Vision set up VisionFund to manage its affiliated network of microfinance institutions (MFIs). VisionFund shares the same vision as World Vision, and its microfinance services have provided hundreds of thousands of women and men…

April Focus: Bolivia

We’re continuing our Strong Women, Strong World country series, focusing on one country a month. We’ll share stories and World Vision projects from that country throughout the month. For April, our focus is Bolivia. Bolivia is one of the poorest…

Changing the World One Doll At A Time

Many Women of Vision are seeing the ground-breaking film “Girl Rising” and having their hearts broken for the trials and perseverence required which girls around the world face every day. Are you wondering how to share this message with the young…

Ethiopia: Woman Saved from 24 years of fistula

This month our country of focus is Ethiopia, where World Vision’s Strong Women, Strong World initiative is working to provide change as a response to the needs of women and girls living in poverty in developing nations. The following story…