La Vida has been supporting projects in Brazil since 2006
La Vida’s first project, The Ponseti Project, was in Brazil.
Brazil is one of the world’s largest economies, but the country suffers with poverty and inequality, which have deteriorated in recent years due to the economic crisis, pushing around an additional 2.5m people below the poverty line.
Projects in Brazil
Nosso Instituto – pregnancy prevention
Nosso Instituto's main focus is the sexual and reproductive rights of the individual.
Viva a Vida
Young people will undertake workshops in Drug Prevention, Life Plan activities and Community Prevention Activities
Cuca Legal
Cuca Legal welcomes disadvantaged children and teenagers and their families giving them a new perspective on life
Ação Forte
Improving the lives of 50-60 teenagers directly and up to 1200 indirectly within the community of Campinas through our youth education programme
Ponseti Project
La Vida’s first project. We trained 556 orthopaedic surgeons throughout Brazil, who helped 5000 children just in 2008 using the Ponseti technique to treat clubfoot.
Combu
We provided windows for the school classrooms to keep out the mosquitos.
SIAO Orphanage
The plantation project will provide a regular income for the orphanage, improving housing facilities, medical and educational support for the children.
Stephen
Stephen Joseph De La Cruz is albino. He has skin problems and very acute short-sightedness which upsets his studies. He has four brothers and his sister who suffers from the same conditions has had no support at a local school.
His parents cannot afford to send him and his sister to a school that would take into account his special needs.
A monthly donation of £20 over a year sponsors a child like Stephen to attend school.