Support a Collective of Vidigal slum NGOs

Dear donors,

Through the Vidigal Vive Collective, we map and connect local leaderships that contribute to the development of the community. In monthly meetings, the main challenges of the community are discussed, and knowledge, connections and resources are shared. The goal of the collective is bringing leaderships of the community closer together to tighten the internal collaboration, enabling them to support the favela in a more united and organized way. The closer relationship with the organizations acting in Vidigal also provides us with an efficient channel to test new ideas and projects from Favela Inc.

Vidigal Vive’s actions happen from the members’ own initiatives, and there are also actions that are started and performed by all organizations together as a group. The leaders and participants of every project or opportunity brought to the Collective depend on the field of action, the capacity, and the experience each organization has. There are always opportunities offered in a democratic way and every member is involved in the development of implementation techniques to ensure the alignment between the project in question and the true necessities and desires of the community. 

The Collective started along with the necessity to join forces in support of the families that were impacted by the crisis of the Covid-19 outbreak, when most of them lost their sources of income, that came largely from tourism and commerce at the beach. There were many difficulties in the operation of receiving and distributing donations, and especially keeping track of families that received them because each organization had its own way of maintaining records of the donations. The organizations started to communicate and work together, creating a more efficient way to track who they were assisting with Vision, and planning the whole operation to distribute donations and directing them to the families that were most in need.

Funds raised for the Vidigal Vive Collective have helped pay for the labor, transportation, storage, support in the operation of registering the residents and in delivering baskets and marketing of the campaign, allowing the project to continue attending to families in Vidigal. We seek employing locals in the needed positions, creating jobs and strengthening the community. These are some of our results:

• 10 participant organizations
• 1000+ families in the community reached combining our actions
• A database of the families each organization supports has been created through Vision thanks to the union of local leaderships in Vidigal Vive
• Over 7000 emergency food kits distributed in total
• Hygiene products, such as 4400 masks, 2400 units of hand sanitizer, as well as bottles of shampoo, conditioner, soap and cleaning products were also distributed
• Meetings between leaders occurring every month to discuss the main issues and needs of the community and establish plans to target them

We would also like to let you know that GlobalGiving will be hosting the Bonus Day Campaign on July 14th. On that date, we will be receiving matches in donations to all our projects starting from the value of $100. Please consider supporting any of our projects for this campaign, and if you are planning to make a donation of $100 or more to Vidigal Vive or to our other projects, we kindly ask you to hold until July 14th to donate so that your donation can be matched and provide extra resources to the project! We will remind you by email and in our social network pages, so make sure you follow us on Instagram and Facebook! 

Thank you for supporting the Vidigal Vive Collective!

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