Village Enterprise's mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with resources to create sustainable businesses.

Their vision is a world free of extreme poverty and chronic hunger, where people have the economic means to sustain their families.

Since its inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has been developing and refining an innovative model of poverty reduction, combining training, seed capital grants, ongoing mentoring to create small rural businesses, and the formation of business savings groups.

Village Enterprise's economic development model plays a unique role in the microfinance industry, providing economic opportunities in rural, agricultural areas that other organizations are not reaching, and gives men and women living in extreme poverty the opportunity to transform a small grant into a new business, a better standard of living, and hope for the future.

Village Enterprise currently operates in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia.

Village Enterprise is unique in its focus on the rural people, helping them obtain the business skills, confidence, and funding to start new businesses using their skills to capitalize on market opportunities.

To date, Village Enterprise has launched 66,000 businesses, trained over 240,000 first-time entrepreneurs (over 80% of them women), and transformed the lives of over 1,413,000 people in rural Africa, including over 1,018,000 women and children.