Welcome to the website of the Viva Foundation of South Africa.
The Mams Art Festival will take place at the Viva Village in Alaska Informal Settlement, Mamelodi East from 15 - 17 June 2012.
Artists are invited to get together and create the Viva Living Art Gallery, by painting art-works on the shacks. There will be drumming, painting, dancing and a lot of staring into fire.
Come with friends, bring paint and brushes, musical instruments, or simply a friendly face and your camping gear and spend the weekend painting, enjoying music and being part of the Mams township vibe.
You might pick up a new experience, (sleep around a bonfire in the middle of a township...and live!) You might even shift a paradigm or dislocate an angst, but you will definitely make a new friend or ten and wanna be back for more!
HOW TO REGISTER
We are deliberately steering away from over-organizing and micro-managing, so it is going to be really simple:
1. Make a donation of at least R 75 per person on the website's credit card or Paypal function or per EFT. (follow the very conspicuous "Donate money" link above on the right)
2. When you do, give us your (real) name and surname with "-art" behind it e.g. Tshepo Papadoupolous-art, or Ethel Mildred van Niekerk-art, or Jacobus Zuma-art. Thats how you register.
Other important info:
3. Print out your payment confirmation and bring it with you.
4. If you are a jazz musician and PITCH UP, or a Tuks FM listener and ROCK UP, or a classical pianist and SHOW UP... without having paid, your minimum donation must be R100 for the weekend in hard cash, or Turkish Delight, at the gate.
5. Everyone must register separately, one by one, individually for themselves by making a unique, sole and singular donation under their own personal, private and particularly peculiar, specific and identifiable, lone name. So just one donation-registration per person please.
6. For your donation you will receive: 2 nights/3 days bottomless, cheap coffee, a camping spot in a secure area, the heat of a darn good fire, the Sound of Music (Julie Andrews and the Von Trapp Children have promised to appear... honestly) and the experience of a life-time!
7. Legally: you are taking part on your own volition, at your own risk, in your own pair of shoes, or if barefoot on your own soles. You will look after your own stuff and if you don't, you will cry to your own mommy, who will also not blame Viva, or anyone associated with the event. So, in short, no-one but you will be responsible for damage or loss of your stuff, your health or your body. At all.
8. Also legally: No-one can drink anything but water, juice, cold-drink, legal teas, or cheap coffee on the premises of the Viva Village. If you want to dull your senses by drinking fermented beverages, you can buy them from a shebeen outside the Village and also drink it in the street. Howeva - if you overdo it, you may find yourself in Waterkloof and not know how you got there.
9. Finally legally: the only thing we will do with grass is sit on it, walk on it and sleep on it. Anyone found using grass, or aerosol cans in a manner other than prescribed, will likewise find themselves in Waterkloof, but will probably not mind, until hours later.
The Viva Foundation of South Africa is a registered Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) founded in 2007 and registered Non-Profit Organisation, presently operating in Gauteng and the Western Cape (South Africa).
VISION
The Vision of the Viva Foundation is to be instrumental in the transformation and development 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.
MISSION
The Mission of the Viva Foundation is to alleviate poverty and promote Christian family values in vulnerable, high priority poverty areas, such as informal settlements, slums, rural areas and inner-cities, by establishing a service hub in the midst thereof, from where the felt- and expressed needs of the community can be met. These centers are known as Viva Villages.
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT VIVA RIGHT NOW?
The Viva Art Centre is being established with 2 projects running: Creating a living art gallery in the township by painting the shacks and preparing for a musical with local youth and help from a lot of FRIENDS!
Planning for the Family Day for Orphans and Vulnerable Children on the 26th of May and the Mams Art Festival on the weekend of the 15 - 17th of June.
The Virtual Adoption of underprivileged families are being promoted.
Viva partnered with James1:27 Trust to implement a management system for the care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children. The Family to Family home-based care is updating and capturing data and identifying families needing assistance to put orphans and vulnerable children back into school.
All the usual Viva programs are running full-steam e.g. Viva Kids, V-Food, V-Mart, Vegetable Tunnels, Training and the new Viva Enterprise Development Programme.
Negotiations with the Provincial Department of Health to make the Viva Village in Alaska Informal Settlement the venue of a Health Post for primary care, is underway.
WHAT IS A VIVA VILLAGE?
(Leon and Meleney Kriel at the Viva Family Day for Orphans and Vulnerable Children May11)
Built on familiar, traditional African concepts (such as Ubuntu, which says: "I am, because we are"), a Viva Village is a hub for service providing for Viva and its partners, built and established right in the midst of a high priority poverty area. The Viva Village goes beyond establishing a safe haven for volunteers and beneficiaries, it sets out to reach beyond its fences, in order to permeate a community with that elusive and scarce ingredient: HOPE.
At the Viva Village in the Alaska Informal Settlement, Mamelodi East, Gauteng,
Viva Kids Pre-School and Day Care center
Viva Youth After School Program
Viva Kickers Soccer Teams
Viva Family to Family Virtual Adoption Programme with home-based OVC and HIV/AIDS care
V-Mart Business Initiative
V-Food providing 6000 cooked meals per month
Vegetable gardens
There is accommodation for staff and Orphans in crisis at Viva as well.
The Viva Community Forum and Business Chamber is well supported by the community and an initiative to support the elderly operates weekly.
Monthly donations to Viva can now be made via Debit Order. Please click here.
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