As Covid first spread and affected the daily lives of people during 2020, Viva’s seven partner networks in India responded with emergency food relief to vulnerable communities in their cities, and began to run Viva’s Phone Mentoring Programme. In Dehradun, the capital city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand 271 families received the support of […]
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Supporting Oxford’s young people in lockdown
BY HANNAH WOODS The pre-teen and early teenage years – particularly those aged 9-14 – are a period of massive growth and development within the brain. Young people perceive risks differently during this time, and therefore respond to risks differently. Assessing the risks posed by the coronavirus will therefore be a different type of challenge […]
Coronavirus: Viva’s global response
BY ANNA BARKER We now face a global crisis which seems to be affecting all of us – restricting travel, for some preventing large meetings and others down to small meetings of five people. Children and families are being asked to remain at home. Children around the world who are living in vulnerable situations are […]
Surviving Lockdown: top tips for parents
Having already been in quarantine for a week with her family, youth worker Hannah Woods shares her key learning points and ‘dealbreakers’ of how to stay home together. As I write this, I sit between my seven year-old, doing literacy, and my nine year old, doing maths. This is a steep learning curve for parents […]