Guiding Green Forward

What is Vumbuzi Impact Africa Foundation?

VIA Foundation is Africa’s first institution dedicated to financing community organizations and local enterprises that restore degraded land.

About VIA Foundation

In Africa, local people hold the key to combating land degradation, but capital for their projects is difficult to access. To scale up investment, efficient financial intermediary that understands the reality of these restoration champions, their donors, and their investors is key. Based in Rwanda and operating across the continent, VIA Foundation fills that gap.

VIA Foundation’s Services

The foundation is seeding the continent’s new restoration economy through its partnerships in four key ways.
01

Grant
Funding

Providing grants to local restoration champions that deliver tangible results.
02

Portfolio
Management

Equipping champions with expertise, tools, and training to implement sustainable restoration practices.
03

Project
Reporting

Vetted reports every six months, verified by WRI remote sensing data.
04

Strategic
Investments

Enabling blended and outcome finance solutions that combine public, philanthropic, and private capital to scale up investment.

Funding Restoration Champions

VIA Foundation is joining TerraFund, a financing partnership founded by World Resources Institute, One Tree Planted, and Realize Impact in 2021. Created to scale this model, VIA Foundation ensures that more restoration projects receive timely financial support. Each project refines the approach, strengthens the network, and expands impact—making restoration finance more efficient, accessible, and scalable. The results of the partnership speak for themselves. 

Funding Restoration Champions

VIA Foundation is joining TerraFund, a financing partnership founded by World Resources Institute, One Tree Planted, and Realize Impact in 2021. Created to scale this model, VIA Foundation ensures that more restoration projects receive timely financial support. Each project refines the approach, strengthens the network, and expands impact—making restoration finance more efficient, accessible, and scalable. The results of the partnership speak for themselves. 

Trees growing
30.1m
01
Hectares under restoration
62k
02
Jobs created
80k
03
Trustworthy organisation

Through its partnership with World Resources Institute, VIA Foundation embraces world-class standards for measuring the impact of each project that it finances. Housed on the TerraMatch platform, this data brings a new level of transparency by combining innovations in artificial intelligence with insights from boots-on-the-ground field visits. 

The Team Behind the Mission

VIA Foundation is led by a team of local experts and restoration advocates working across Africa. United by a shared belief in community-driven change, we help turn bold restoration ideas into lasting impact. And good news! We're hiring.