Viva South Africa

Viva Foundation

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Specialist Independent Education for underprivileged learners

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Help us change the World, one child at a time

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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

Change the World

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

Viva Organigram — Viva Foundation Organigram

The Viva Foundation was first registered in South Africa and most of the information on this site relates to activities that the organisation performs in South Africa.

After years in operation, Viva Foundation also registered a branch in Germany, then the UK and in 2021 in Brazil.

Viva Foundation South Africa has a centre in Mamelodi East, the Viva Village. The Viva Connect Centre, Refilwe Campus houses the organisation's main office and a campus of the Viva Independent Schools.

Viva also has several secondary Food Parcel Distribution sites, from partner organisations that benefits from larger donations for food security and emergency assistance.

The organisation also has a country-wide reach via online activism campaigs, such as the Sexual Violence prevention and Response initiative and by making training materials available online.