Mission: The Village Cooperative's mission is to empower villages around the world to become self-sustaining through the implementation of handicraft projects, micro-financing enterprises, small business development, and vocational skills training.

Results: The Village Cooperative has complete projects in Kenya, Thailand and Uganda. Successes include three women's fair trade handicrafts groups employing widows, women affected by HIV/AIDS and those vulnerable to human trafficking. Small business grants and loans have been granted to groups starting chicken coops, fisheries, a sewing business, a party rental group and small shops. The Village Cooperative has collaborated with the UN, the EU and local Kenyan partners to transform an internally displaced persons camp in which 250 families were living under one tent into a thriving eco-village comprised of single family homes and individual gardens and orchards. In partnership with local villages, TVC has helped fund and build schools and a medical clinic in Kenya. Plans are underway for a medical clinic to service Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

Target demographics: Women's groups in the developing world, specifically in Kenya, Thailand and Uganda.

Geographic areas served: Africa, Asia, Latin America

Programs: School, recycling and community center construction and development

community development

small donations to various countries