Mission

Vision Builders is a U.S.

based organization that carefully selects partners from around the world who are native to and living in their regions and who have already started small humanitarian projects in the fields of health care, children’s education, and job training for women. We work with these proven leaders to plan and fund next-step expansion of their efforts to better meet the overwhelming needs of extremely impoverished communities.

Where We Work

We are currently supporting the Kutumb Project in the densely populated urban slum in Varanasi, India. At the heart of our mission is the drive to assist visionary local leaders of outstanding character and proven ability wherever they are found.

Previously, over the past decade, Vision Builders has established partnerships with projects in remote locations in northern India and Tibet. In 2001, they created “The Pemakö Project”, in Tibet, which was inspired by the desire to help children marginalized by poverty to access education and the possibility it creates.

Who We Are

Vision Builders is a non-political, non-religious helping agency. We provide assistance to those in need regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality or caste.

Founders, Stuart Kirkpatrick and Katie Kirkpatrick, spent more than 20 years initiating charity efforts in America and abroad.

In 2013, the Kirkpatricks began partnering with Arun Verma and Smita Abbi, and the Vision Builders U.S. office relocated from Michigan to New Jersey, where Arun and Smita reside.  Arun and Smita now lead the Vision Builders organization, along with their newly appointed Board of Directors, and continue the work to support Vision Builders’ ongoing mission.