Category: Latin America

Updates from our partner networks – 24 August 2020

Global Updates 1. Phone Mentoring Viva’s new Phone Mentoring programme is being set up in 25 of our partner networks. This phone mentoring programme is designed to ensure people have trustworthy information on COVID-19, reduce domestic violence, improve family relationships and improve home learning. It is useful in lockdown and also in supporting children and …

Updates from our partner networks – 10 August 2020

Global Updates 1. Phone Mentoring Viva’s new Phone Mentoring programme is being set up in 25 of our partner networks. This phone mentoring programme is designed to ensure people have trustworthy information on COVID-19, reduce domestic violence, improve family relationships and improve home learning. It is useful in lockdown and also in supporting children and …

Carmen’s message of encouragement to Viva’s Latin America partner networks

Viva’s Latin America and Caribbean Director, Carmen Alvarez has these encouraging words for our partner networks: Let me first thank you for your commitment to the partner network in your country, we know that we face difficult times and that the pandemic has brought uncertainty, frustration, sadness and in the worst cases, depression. The world …

Updates from our partner networks – 27 July 2020

Global Updates 1. Phone Mentoring Viva’s new Phone Mentoring programme is being set up in 24 of our partner networks. This phone mentoring programme is designed to ensure people have trustworthy information on COVID-19, reduce domestic violence, improve family relationships and improve home learning. It is useful in lockdown and also in supporting children and …

Updates from our partner networks – 13 July 2020

Global Updates 1. Phone Mentoring Viva’s new Phone Mentoring programme is being set up in 24 of our partner networks. This phone mentoring programme is designed to ensure people have trustworthy information on COVID-19, reduce domestic violence, improve family relationships and improve home learning. It is useful in lockdown and also in supporting children and …

Updates from our partner networks – 15 June 2020

Global Updates 1. Phone Mentoring Viva’s new Phone Mentoring programme is being set up in 16 of our partner networks. This phone mentoring programme is designed to ensure people have trustworthy information on COVID-19, reduce domestic violence, improve family relationships and improve home learning. It is useful in lockdown and also in supporting children and …

Prayer Collective Live Recordings – 6 May 2020

If you were unable to join us for our Zoom prayer meeting on 6th May 2020, we now have the recordings available below and also on our Viva Worldwide YouTube page! Listen to Viva’s updates and join us in praying for Viva’s work during this challenging season.

Safeguarding Children From Afar during a Pandemic

Local churches in some of the poorest cities around the world are on the frontline of the pandemic in the Global South. Coming together in pioneering, city-wide networks, they are reaching increasingly vulnerable children and families – despite being socially distant.

Making dreams a reality

Growing up without loving parental support, teenagers in Costa Rica are left depressed and confused about what the future might hold as they enter adulthood. Joel Porras writes about how a mentoring programme, run by our partner network, is giving them hope of a brighter future. A quarter of homicides in Costa Rica take place …

“I have lived through radical change”

Antonio from Oruro, Bolivia describes the positive impact of Viva’s partner network when he was a child – and why he still believes in it today. Read his testimony and watch it in the video at the bottom of the article. My name is Antonio. I study in Oruro. I am 21 years old and …