Raising The Village

Raising The Village (RTV) was founded with the vision of ending ultra-poverty in our lifetime. Their big, ambitious vision is to end ultra-poverty for 1 million people by 2023 and eliminate ultra-poverty in our generation.

Through the “Secure, Improve, Sustain” (SIS) program, RTV partners with last-mile communities to address the multifaceted impacts of ultra-poverty with a holistic, data-driven, and sustainable model that secures basic needs, raises household incomes and fosters long-term community development.

Through the 24-month phased approach, households receive the resources, training, and links to services they need to address challenges with food security, clean water, sanitation, health, gender equity, and more. During this period of time, RTV assists households in fostering the time, space, and skills needed to increase incomes from as little as $0.50 a day to over $1.90 a day. In doing so, the program empowers communities to improve economic resilience and enables all households—including women, youth, and the most vulnerable—to address immediate and long-term challenges so that they can build a stronger, more resilient future.

In the past five years, RTV’s SIS program has reached over 440,000 people across 288 villages in rural Uganda, including 164,000 people in 2021 alone. Through innovative technology and advanced data analytics, RTV has driven impact and sustainability by transforming the way data is integrated into real-time programmatic decision making. By doing so, RTV has seen a one-time investment of $20 per person return an ROI of 565% at two years and an incredible 1736% at five years.