Village Infrastructure Angels (VIA) is a group of concerned individuals and organizations that is helping rural villages in developing countries to access the infrastructure they need to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This includes helping 1 billion people gain access to electricity for the first time, agricultural machinery to reduce manual labour when processing crops by hand, solar electric cooking solutions, crop/food/clothes dryers, low cost refrigeration. solar washing machines for reduced labour for women, and water pumps for irrigation and drinking water. VIA actively develops and builds projects, having helped 50,000 people get electricity to date in 3 countries, and VIA also helps others to plan and execute their own projects, particularly with world-class infrastructure design software for minigrids and rural electrification.