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Viva Rio Haiti launches a new project: Martissant without violence
30/August/2018Viva Rio Haiti launched this August 2018 a new community violence reduction project called “Martissan san vyolans” (Martissant without violence). Martissant is a densely populated area of Port-au-Prince that has seen a surge in armed violence during the last years. This new 10-month project is financed by the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti […]
Health Clinics promote breastfeeding awareness with event for moms and babies
15/August/2018Health and social assistance are universal rights. Viva Rio believes in a wider concept of healthcare and sees the management of public facilities as a way to ensure citizenship for all. With this purpose, Viva Rio got a certificate to operate as an unprofitable Social Health Organization, co-managing over 80 health units in partnership with […]
Blood donation campaign saved 2,805 lives in 2017
23/February/2018Did you know that a single blood donation can save up to three lives? Viva Rio works to raise awareness about the importance of donating blood since 1998, when it signed a partnership with Rio de Janeiro’s blood bank Hemorio. In 2010 the initiative was strengthened and gained support from the Municipal Health Secretariat, community […]
Black Pearls hire refugee from Venezuela to its Under-20 team
20/December/2017The Black Pearls Football Club arrives at the end of 2017 closer to the dream of becoming a global team of refugees. In addition to winning the Rio State Championship C Series, which moved the team up one rank in the competition, and the efforts to expand the project to the Middle East, a move […]
The power of women in Viva Rio
14/December/2017Viva Rio’s workforce is female, with 69.03% of women and 30.97% of men among the nearly 10,000 employees we have today. Viva Rio has always had women in leadership positions, but this was accentuated in 2007 as we started working in the health area. Today, 58% of our managing positions are occupied by women, who […]
Kids with disabilities enjoy nature in accessible park trail
27/September/2017Viva Rio has opened an inclusive trail in Mangaratiba State Park, which is interpretive, sensory and accessible for wheelchair users and people with low mobility. The so-called Curumin Trail connects in the Sahy Valley region with the Ruin Trail, a narrow strip of land between the mountain and the sea. The idea of an adapted […]
Child soldiers from Congo find peace and friends in Capoeira
15/September/2017Capoeira for Peace (Capoeira por la Paix) has just made its first “baptism” and graduation at the Democratic Republic of Congo. The program uses capoeira to resocialize children who had been used as soldiers by armed groups in the African country. The initiative of the Brazilian Embassy and Unicef, with the support of the Amada […]
Black Pearls leads group in their first time in professional football
8/September/2017After 10 victories in 13 matches, Viva Rio’s football team, the Black Pearls FC, is leading its group with 31 points in the Series C of Rio Football Championship. First place in each group guarantees direct access to Series B, and now the team is two winning matches away from the dream of moving a […]
Young students share food, warm clothes and love with homeless people
22/August/2017Inspired by a lecture on Empathy and Volunteer Work, students from Viva Rio’s education program Jovem Aprendiz decided to put into practice what they were debating and got together to take the streets and distribute donations to homeless people. In less than 24 hours they collected kits that included water, fruit, biscuits, toiletries and warm […]
Health agents and locals create community garden at hospital
22/August/2017Caring for the environment in which we live is also taking care of our health. In the Municipal Hospital Ronaldo Gazolla collaborators and locals joined the Volunteers of Viva Rio to create a community vegetable garden, free of chemical fertilizers and agrochemicals. A task-force was formed to plant fruit trees, herbs and vegetables on a […]