The organisation is duly registered as a Non-Profit- and Public Benefit Organisation and has proven itself within the charities sector as a social enterprise with an above average, doable and effective strategy for service delivery. The organisation has a working model and an excellent combination of managerial accountability, administrational excellence and on-the-ground operations with a very high buy-in from its beneficiaries and benefactors alike.
The Vision of the Viva Foundation is to be instrumental in transformation of informal settlements and other high-priority poverty areas into stable and economically viable communities that provide young and old with opportunities for education, employment, business and recreation.
The Mission of the Viva Foundation is to establish service hubs (Viva Villages) and provide services in informal settlements and high priority poverty areas, particularly where no, or little other services are available.
Viva’s strategy is to effectively address a community’s felt and expressed needs by creating a secure hub within an informal settlement and base it on familiar traditional values, namely the ‘village’ concept.
EDUCATE + CARE Viva operates five different projects to either care for children or to educate them. Such as Viva Kids Early Learning Programme, Viva Village Independent School, Viva Youth Development & After-Care, Switch On Youth and Viva OVC Care.
Nutrition & Training Viva meets the most urgent needs, such as food-insecurity and inequality and facilitates access to the economy by supporting economic self-empowerment, through training and job-creation.
PROMOTE + MENTOR To visually uplift shack homes in informal settlements, to bring underprivileged communities into contact with art and to stimulate the economy of poverty areas by attracting tourism to the living art galleries.
PREVENT + RESPOND
Viva's SAPRI - South African People's Response Initiative: Prevention of Sexual Violence, appropriate response to Sexual Violence and Victim Empowerment by distributing resources and materials for the empowerment and building of the capacity of women and girls in underprivileged communities to understand their rights with regards to rape & gender-based violence and to prevent sexual violence. The main elements of the intervention are the prevention of the occurrence of rape and incidents of sexual violence.
Giving is one of the most rewarding human experiences and giving to the projects, programmes and initiatives of the Viva Foundation, particularly so, as the gifts serves to make a real and tangible difference in the lives of vulnerable children, women and underprivileged families.
From a practical point of view, giving to the Viva Foundation is tax-deductible in South Africa and Germany.
In South Africa – Viva is a tax exempted, Public Benefit Organisation with 18A status. A Tax Deductible 18A Certificate is issued for all bona fide donations, including Donations in Kind. Companies wishing to receive an 18A Tax Certificate, must please provide their full address and registration number. For companies, the Certificate is issued in the month following the donation. For individuals, please provide full address. Individual 18A Certificates are issued annually at the end of the Financial Year, unless otherwise requested.
In Germany – Viva is likewise tax-exempted and registered as “Gemeinnutzig”. Spendebescheinigungen are issued for each donation. Donors are requested to provide their full names and residential address for the certificate and their email address, as the certificates are sent by email and not by post.
B-BBEE Status
Companies wishing to improve their BEE status, can make donations to the Viva Foundation in 3 different categories: Social Enterprise, Enterprise Development and Enterprise Development in ICT. The Viva Enterprise Development Initiative complies to the requirements of BEE Verification Agencies with regard to the documentation, confirmations and beneficiary development, as prescribed, providing access to the economy, to underprivileged and previously disadvantages beneficiaries.
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