SAPRI - Sexual Abuse Prevention & Response

Viva Foundation

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Specialist Independent Education for underprivileged learners

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How You’re Changing Children’s Lives

Measurable Outcomes 2022-2023

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Transforming high priority poverty areas into stable neighbourhoods

Our Mission

Our mission is to establish centres within vulnerable and underprivileged communities as uplif

Our Vision

The Vision of the Viva Foundation is to be instrumental in the transformation of informal sett

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Become a partner with the Viva Foundation today.

By volunteering, through monthly sponsorships

What we do and why we do

The Viva Foundation was founded in South Africa, in 2007 by Leon and Meleney Kriel with the ai

What we do and why we do it

The Viva Foundation was founded in South Africa, in 2007 by Leon and Meleney Kriel with the aim to alleviate poverty, by addressing its immediate impact and remedy its causes.

The vision is to be instrumental in transformation and the mission is to create service hubs within high-priority pover

You can Partner with Viva

How you can become a partner with Viva

1. Volunteering

Viva has a variety of volunteer opportunities from once-off, annual events, such as the Mandela Day celebrations on the 18th of July each year, or team-building days, to short-, medium- and long-term internships and volunteering full-time a

Give Social Support Where It's Needed Most

Current Projects and Wish List 2023

1. Sponsor a Teacher/volunteer as teacher Refilwe and Mamelodi Campus, South Africa

2. Sponsor a Child - South Africa and Brazil

3. School Furniture - Refilwe Campus, South Africa

4. Textbooks - Refilwe and Mamelodi Campus, South Africa

5. School Uniform - Re

Specialist Independent Education

The Viva Independent Schools in Mamelodi East and Refilwe, offer quality and equality in education with augmented CAPS curriculum presented by qualified, SACE-registered teachers and support staf

Food security and Nutritional Support

The Viva Feeding Scheme provides food security and nutritional support to its beneficiaries and the communities around our centres. Our school feeding scheme provides two cooked meals and snacks

Sexual Violence Prevention and Response

The SAPRI system [SAPRI = Sexual Abuse Prevention and Response Initiative] addresses the rampant sexual violence, child abuse, femicide and domestic abuse prevalent in South Africa.

Community Tra

Promote and Develop the Arts

Promoting the Arts in underprivileged communities, is a vital development need, as the potential and artistic expression of vulnerable children and youth, often go unexplored and unseen. A wealth

The Viva Foundation developed a programme SAPRI - Sexual Abuse Prevention and Response Initiative that is aimed community-based prevention and response to all forms of gender-based and sexual violence, including domestic violence.

Awareness, advocacy and training are the main focuses of the programme.

Community-based response training was developed with a strong prevention focus. Training modules are:

1. The Rape Response Protocol - from Incident to Guilty Verdict

2. Court Procedures - assisting a survivor through the legal process to ensure justice

3. Rape Specific First Aid

4. Counselling a Rape Victim

5. The Rights of a Victim

6. SAPRI Community-based Prevention & Response

The training and resources are available freely upon request. Please email info @ vivafoundation.life