Gifts to the Guatemala Appeal – launched in March following a fire at a large children’s care home in the country – are helping our partner network to respond effectively and strategically. Forty-one teenage girls died and 15 others were seriously injured after the tragedy at the Virgen de la Asuncion home on the […]
Month: June 2017
Freedom for girls in India
Thanks to Viva supporters, we raised £30,000 for our Christmas Match Appeal to bring new hope and freedom to girls who face violence, harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse because of their gender. In India, the ‘Dare to be different’ mentoring programme run by our partner networks is turning around the lives of hundreds of girls. […]
Back in the classroom – with your help
As part of our catch-up education programme in Uganda, with our partner network CRANE, we asked for your help last summer in providing starter packs for 1,000 girls returning to mainstream school. Thanks to you, they certainly looked the part and had all the essential kit as they went back to the classroom after six […]
After Haiyan
When Super Typhoon Haiyan swept across the Philippines on 7 November 2013, destroying more than a million homes and tragically killing 6,000 people, our partner network PCMN already had people on-the-ground in Eastern Samar. As a result, PCMN was ready to respond immediately by co-ordinating emergency supplies and, with Viva’s support, put together a comprehensive […]
Building safer, stronger communities in Nepal
Justine Demmer, Viva’s Network Consultant for Asia, writes about the people she met during a recent visit to see our partner network CarNet Nepal in action. “Last year one of the members of our Child Vigilant Group (CVG) saw with his own eyes a man raping a young girl. We as the CVG group took […]
Sink or swim!
BY PAUL HATCHER After three months of training – largely consisting of me ‘re-learning’ how to swim the front crawl properly – it was finally time to literally take the plunge. I stood on the hill next to my wife, simply staring out towards the lake at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, shocked at the sheer […]
