Our Mission

The mission of VPI is to enable the poorest communities in the world to efficiently organize those social and environmental projects that can benefit themselves and the planet most effectively.


VPI’s organizers have been working in Africa for more than 15 years.


We see the big barrier to doing good development projects to be the difficulty in efficiently and effectively getting resources to those communities that can organize the best projects.


Just sending money is not the answer.


VPI’s solution is to create a new set of currencies that reward communities for the social value they can produce.

We have therefore created poverty-reduction, health- improvement, and climate credits that local communities can use to finance development projects that they initiate.


The result of this process is that the communities own their projects, projects are prioritized by the social value they produce, and communities have incentives and finance that can sustain the projects and their development activities over the long term.