Tragically, all the CCTV cameras and safe touch sessions did not prevent a Grade 7 student from taking her own life because she could not take the humiliation of her science teacher any more. Self-harm is the biggest cause of death of 13 to 17-year-olds in India. Mental health awareness in our country is abysmally …
BY ANNA BARKER We’ve responded quickly and effectively to the needs of children and families throughout the COVID-19 crisis. This is because we have an established model of working with local, grassroots organisations and churches. The World Food Programme predicts there will be a doubling of acute hunger as a result of the pandemic. Our …
By Lucy Hefford Longing. Ever read the news or listened to a friend mourn the situation they find themselves in and think; ‘it just seems so hopeless’? I have – and some of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the lives of children around the world can feel hopeless too. Missing months of schooling, …
Viva and CRANE, our partner network in Uganda are committed. Committed to building girls up, to live, learn, laugh and ‘SCHIP’ in Strong, Creative, Holistic, Inclusive, Protective, Quality Education. Across five districts in central Uganda, the collaboration between two Girls Education Challenge (GEC) partners, CRANE and Viva, support 9,890 acutely marginalised girls to improve their …
It all started like a fairy tale in a faraway land. China seemed to be so remotely connected to Uganda. However, intrigued by this story I listened to BBC every morning as I drove to work. This unfolding story seemed to be gaining momentum and numbers. It then sounded like the proximity of COVID-19 to …
A child dozing on the shoulder of his father, a migrant labourer India has witnessed an unprecedented and huge reverse migration as millions of migrant labourers lost their jobs and were left stranded without income, food or shelter, as a fallout of the strict nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19. Millions of labourers …
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.
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 …
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 …
Filipino sisters, Hope and Mary, were trapped in one of the growing number of cases of online sexual exploitation which occur each year across the world. Thanks, however, to the work of Viva’s partner network, PCMN, they were rescued and freed from their exploitation, as Emma Stonehouse writes. PCMN, our partner network in the Philippines, …