My name is Victor Owusu-Ansah, the program coordinator for Mpobi and Ejuratia. I coordinate the Income Generation, Education, and Family Health programs in these two villages. Mpobi and Ejuratia are small communities with a population of about 400-500 people in each village. They are deprived areas and therefore most of the people are very poor, with their main occupation susbsistence farming. Since Rising Village began working in these villages, there has been a very positiv

What if you decided to give up something up so that vulnerable families in a low-income country could rise? Mamuna Moro is a mother of three children who lives in the village of Nantan. She carries the responsibility for the income of her family. Her husband, Ali, was in a motorcar accident two years ago and his foot had to be amputated. After the accident, the couple had to give up farming and Mamuna now supports the family by selling porridge. She buys all the ingredients f

​Kwadwo is in fifth grade and lives in the village of Dumayki, Ghana. Each day, he walks through farm land, crosses streams, and climbs hills in order to get to school. His village has no electricity, and the houses are constructed with mud and finished with thatched roofs. Everyone who lives in this tiny village is a farmer, including Kwadwo's mother, who farms cocoa. His father died when he was a little boy. He and his five siblings live with their mother. At night, Kwadwo

by Lisa Tresch, Rising Village Executive Director Many years ago, when my husband and I were deciding whether to give to a large nonprofit that worked in lower-income countries, we focused on three things to help us make our decision: 1) a clear and passionate communication about their mission and purpose, 2) transparency about how they used our funds, and 3) stories about the difference our money was making in the lives of real people. In two previous posts, I wrote about ou