Viva is an international Christian children’s charity passionate about releasing children from poverty and abuse. Viva’s vision is to bring lasting change to vulnerable children by growing locally-led networks of churches and organisations.
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Where they operate
Organization Type
Main Areas of Work
What They Do
Location
Global
Implementation
Directly
Partners
Viva's work is focused around seven main solution strategies:
- Transforming children through education They help children to catch up on their schooling and equip them for the future. In Uganda they re-educate marginalised girls, train teachers and engage community mentors to develop parenting skills.
- Keeping children safe They protect children in Central America from violent, abusive situations in their homes and on the streets and advocate for change.
- Making child trafficking history They provide homework clubs, assist women’s businesses and spread the anti-exploitation message – all to make children and parents in Asia less vulnerable to trafficking recruiters.
- Resettling children into families They resettle abandoned children in Uganda into loving families, and provide these families with counseling, income-generating advice and practical support.
- Unlocking the potential of girls They train and support churches in India to challenge gender discrimination, report abuse and raise girls’ self-esteem.
- Protecting children in emergencies They give practical relief and psychosocial support for families following disaster and conflict, train community leaders and set up child-friendly spaces.
- Helping young people thrive They catalyse a collaborative response from local churches and other providers in Oxford, UK to the complex needs of young people in order to increase their self-esteem and resilience.
Residential Care Service Transition Support
Location
Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe
Implementation
Directly
Supports they have offered, or plan to offer, include:
- Introducing the importance of family care and reintegration to leaders in the organization
- Strategy and planning for the transition
- Donor and board engagement
- Community awareness raising and engagement
- Partnerships
- Government engagement and linking to systems reforms
- Assessments of children and families
- Family tracing
- Preparing children and families for transition
- Social work or case management training or support
- Staffing adjustments or training
- Developing new programs, including:
- Family and community strengthening
- Alternative family care (including kinship care, foster care, adoption)
- Advocacy
- Building strong marriages and parents
- Provide funding for the transition
- General coaching or consultation
- Onsite training
- Online training
- Onsite visits/meetings
- Phone calls/video conference
- Provision of standards and written guidance or tools for transitioning
- Connecting with others or building a network
Viva plans to support transitions in Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. Our approach to supporting residential care centers to transition to family care involves six steps:
- First response: keep the family together and prevent separation
- Second response: emergency care
- Third response: reunification and kinship care
- Fourth response: foster care
- Fifth response: domestic adoption
- Sixth response: inter-country adoption