The Business of Lasting Change
Five years after a single Visible Fund investment, a youth-run recycling business in East London, South Africa is still creating jobs, partners, and now new business owners. Scott Worley, our Catalyst there, tells the story.
When Helping Helps
Gabriel Munanjala grew up in Chibolya, Zambia, and trained as a medic with help from One Collective. He explains what that support restored in him, and why poverty is about more than money.
Transforming a Kenyan Community Through Faith and Holistic Impact
Emily, a physical therapist, moved her family to Kenya and helped local leaders name five areas their community wanted to change. Why a maize farm and a sewing ministry now start with discipleship.
Patience Bears Fruit
In East London, South Africa, a recycling business started in 2018 now serves 1,000 homes and employs 20 young adults who had no work. Scott Worley on how a Visible Fund grant helped it grow.
The Impact of Strategic Partnership
Calvary Community Church in Williams Bay, Wisconsin partnered with Mapalo Trust School in Chibolya, Zambia. Retired educators, teacher-led priorities and $25,000 for classrooms show what listening first produces.
Change-Maker
Libbie spent her life next to Chibolya, Zambia, and wanted a place where people could know God and learn to provide for themselves. She died in April 2022; the young women she helped carry on her work.
Setting the Stage for Lasting Change
In Chibolya, Zambia, a women’s empowerment program started by Ben and Kristin Choitz is helping women like Sylvia, a single mother of six, build real businesses. A new ministry center is about to multiply it.
Empowering Innovation that Transforms a Community
In Buffalo City, South Africa, a generation of job scarcity has left young adults disillusioned. Catalyst Scott Worley is piloting entrepreneurial training that starts with mindset, not short-term fixes.
The Spark that Creates Lasting Change
In Chibolya, Zambia, an elderly market trader named Libby offered six acres of land to restore hope in her community. How New Hope Farm, and Libby’s care for a young mother named Charity, began.
“We Believe in What You Do”
Diane and Bill Campbell visited Cambridge, South Africa to see what their giving had done. Why they shifted from supporting a worker to funding Catalysts who draw out gifts already in the community.