Our Mission:
Empowering rural communities to improve their living conditions
Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA
The Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA is committed to combatting poverty and inequality in rural India. Our focus is to improve the lives of India’s most marginalized groups in order to contribute to a more just and equal society. We place particular emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable populations: children, women, and people with disabilities, to ensure that development in rural India leaves no one behind. Women in India are particularly affected by poverty because of societal discrimination.
The Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA uses a holistic approach to implement development programs. Through our local partners, Rural Development Trust, and others, we work with the most deprived communities in rural Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Together with our partners, we develop long-term solutions that empower communities and improve people’s individual living conditions, promoting social change.
Our unique “community-based approach” ensures sustainability, as communities become main actors in their own change. Communities identify common needs and solutions, and participate actively in their implementation. With the help of our donors, the Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA supports programs to ensure access to quality education, healthcare, housing and basic infrastructure, and to provide local communities with a sustainable livelihood.
In order to unlock the full potential of future generations, the empowerment of women and people with disabilities is particularly important. In community-based organizations, men and women are equally represented, which reinforces the role of women in their communities.
The Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA is part of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation worldwide network, which strives for change towards a caring, just, and equitable society. We work to achieve this goal together with Rural Development Trust, India; Fundación Vicente Ferrer, Spain; and Vicente Ferrer Foundation, Germany.
Rural Development Trust has been successfully implementing projects in India since 1969. The Fundación Vicente Ferrer was founded in Spain in 1996 and is now one of the largest foundations in Spain. The Vicente Ferrer Foundation has been operating from Germany since 2019. The Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA was established in the U.S. in 2013.
The Vicente Ferrer Foundation USA has no political or religious affiliation.
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“That is our goal for the next 50 years: Reaching more people and helping them to bring change in their lives.“
– Moncho Ferrer VFF USA’s Board President
Work with us to improve the quality of life for people in rural India
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Work with us to improve the quality of life for people in rural India
Would you like to know how we use the funds? LEARN MORE