Tag: Coronavirus

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.

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 …