Tag: Slums

Informing and empowering women

BY EMMA STONEHOUSE In collaboration with our partner network, Viva is giving women in Uganda a choice, in a society which often takes it away. Pregnancy and early parenting is an exciting time, but also a time full of unknowns. Our partner network in Uganda, CRANE, is working with women to inform and support women …

Teaching in a Delhi slum

BY KERRY BOWLER When we first arrived at the slum, I was surprised to find the school right there in the middle of it, distinguishable not by gates or logos but the sound of children singing coming from a small, rudimentary looking building. Although there were small rooms opposite and to the right of the …