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Join us in celebrating National Volunteer Week! Read about the many ways ACDI/VOCA volunteer experts help us fight poverty and build local economies worldwide.

Join us in celebrating National Volunteer Week! Read about the many ways ACDI/VOCA volunteer experts help us fight poverty and build local economies worldwide.

As we mark our 50th anniversary, we're reflecting on programs of particular impact and importance.

Public-private Cocoa Alliance Works to Fight Poverty in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Kyrgyz Microfinance Institution Becomes Banking Model in Central Asia

Learn how we help smallholders in developing countries to treat their farms as the businesses that they are.

ACDI/VOCA helps coffee producers improve quality, win new markets and dramatically boost incomes. (PDF, 419 KB)

ACDI/VOCA has worked in 145 nations since 1963 to provide knowledge, opportunities and choices. Learn about what distinguishes ACDI/VOCA and our signature approach to international development. (PDF, 966 KB)

Read our 2009 annual report to learn about our impact last year and our ongoing efforts to empower people. (PDF, 1.4 MB)

2010 presented us with formidable challenges as well as opportunities. Learn how we applied holistic development solutions to create lasting impact in 39 countries.

Our holistic approach is informed by our roots in volunteer assistance and U.S. farm cooperatives and credit banks. Learn more about our story through this new video.

Coconut expert Randal Moore had just returned from a trip to Venezuela when ACDI/VOCA contacted him for an activity in Panama. A self-taught expert in palm trees, this expertise led to a life-changing volunteer experience.

What started out as a three-week Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer assignment in July 2002 has led to a robust Little League program where the crack of the bat was seldom before heard—in Uganda.

H’Bim Buon Krong manages three cocoa clubs, a seedling business and her own farm. “Until I became educated, I never knew it was possible for my life to change,” she says.

HIV/AIDS nearly destroyed an entire family in Uganda until ACDI/VOCA’s food distribution program brought them back from the brink.

Our 2009 success story contest winner was David Lukungu of our Title II PL 480 program, for his story, which describes a farmers’ group that, despite terrible odds, is now thriving in northern Uganda.

With the help of Board Chair Mort Neufville, ACDI/VOCA recently tapped the eminent Dr. Eugene Terry as a volunteer for its Promoting Agriculture, Governance and Environment project in Sierra Leone.

In Tanzania, ACDI/VOCA has helped mariculturalists like Salim Hatibu, who through his seaweed sales was able to rebuild his home and send his children to school.

Learn how our USAID-funded program in Lebanon helped a local pickle business launch its products in specialty stores and supermarkets from Asia to South America.

A volunteer’s visit to Sri Lanka helped a local aquaculture company improve its seabass-raising business, which should help 3,000 local fisher families boost their incomes by about $3 million.

Learn how a carpentry association offers youth in northern Paraguay a chance to build their skills and a brighter future for their communities.

Check out the newest issue of the World Report, which examines how ACDI/VOCA is meeting the challenges of food security around the world.

As an international development organization, we are driven by our mission to empower people to live better lives. And in that work there’s no denying there’s power in numbers. Connect to us to share in our work.

Youth present both unique challenges and great promise in development work. Read our latest findings on how to engage this population to drive economic growth.

Information and communication technologies offer new solutions to many old problems. In this issue of our World Report, read how ICT advances our goal of expanding opportunities worldwide.

ACDI/VOCA's Kenya Maize Development Program program officer Jane Tum took these recent photos of impact that your donations made possible through the successful “Greenest of Gifts” campaign.

Learn about the emerging global best practices to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs.