Vipani works with poor farmers that typically operate outside the reach of existing poverty measures. Vipani gives loans to these farmers in a setting where they have a reasonable chance of making a return on their investments in high-risk small-scale farming. By creating concentrated impact in communities, Vipani creates vibrant local economies. Vipani's network-based approach further ensures that communities continue to grow on their own.

Support Vipani because:

Vipani is local. Vipani is run by local people, uses local resources and enhances local capacity. It builds local business networks and grows the local economy through enterprise, spawning new businesses that benefit everyone in the community. Vipani does not give "handouts". Vipani creates a setting where poor farmers can get what they need from the marketplace, trade profitably and take responsibility for the prosperity of their own families. Farmers must pay their dues just like everyone else. Vipani creates lasting impact. Vipani focuses on results that last beyond short-term project cycles. We ensure that people exit the cycle of poverty and move on to a permanent path to prosperity, enabling them to meet their own food security, health, education and other needs. Vipani's is a high-reach intervention. Vipani reaches the majority of the people in a geographic area, concentrating its impact in each locality. This is in contrast to the approximately 10% reach possible by other interventions such as microcredit, for example. The local economy derives the greatest benefits when everyone in the community can participate and profit in the marketplace. Vipani's is a high-impact intervention. Vipani delivers high per-capita impact for the poor farmers. We do this by transforming the hit or miss small-scale farming into a high performing and highly profitable activity. Vipani serves the world's poorest. Vipani reaches even the poorest farmer in the community with no gender, age, capacity or history bias. The baseline annual income of the Vipani farmers is under $200, an extremely low income. Vipani builds strong communities. Vipani works directly with individual farmers, helps build their capacity, and enables them to take responsibility for their own economic security. This allows Vipani to reach all farmers, both men and women (including those who do not usually join group-based interventions), and build strong and all-inclusive communities. Vipani is highly adaptable and scalable. The Vipani method adapts to local people, conditions and resources. Because of this, Vipani has the potential to reach millions of poor farmers throughout the developing regions of the world.