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It’s 2012, Christmas and New Year celebrations in the favela have been quickly dampened by fear as Police strikes spark crime and robberies in Fortaleza.

We’re so close to our target now, your donation can really make a difference. You can now give online or by text. Please help today with the closing stages of this campaign so we can reach our target before Christmas.

We’ve raised £14,000 so far

Only £4,000 to go ! Click here to go to our DONATIONS PAGE

The University of Life is located 9 miles south-east of the commercial centre of Fortaleza.

Text KOMB11 to 70070 to donate £10

The project needs a vehicle, in order to effectively service the daily needs of 350 children and staff.  Without it the project would be paralyzed. The vehicle allows us to deal with the complicated logistics of working in Brazil and to be ready in the case of an accident or emergency at the project.

Kombi’s are strong, reliable and fuel efficient. They typically last up to 10 years, even with such heavy use on very poor roads.

A Kombi is a lifeline to the project, it transports…..

• Food and water
• Maintenance supplies and parts
• Staff and students on field trips and visits
• Our mission team to visit churches & schools
  and to do evangelism
• Staff to the bank, to pay bills, to buy equipment,
  materials and services for the project.
• Food parcels to needy people in the favela
• Staff to house church and to visit children in their homes

The Kombi is also needed as…

• An Emergency vehicle (in Brazil’s slums you can’t rely on an ambulance)
• A host vehicle for visitors from overseas

More information in our Nov/Dec Newsletter

In partnership with ‘Fabrica Fortaleza’, 200 students at the University of Life  went on a field trip to a biscuit factory at the end of October.

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It’s rare that children growing up in the slums, feel special. However, UNiViDA is trying to change that by making sure that the wide open space of it’s project in Fortaleza, Brazil is available to children everyday of the week.

Over 300 children enjoy the project each day

Assemblies are an opportunity to build up the confidence of children who often feel disregarded by society. When children start to make friends, enjoy learning and dream for their future, they are more motivated to pursue opportunities available to them.

“Wow, you did all of this just for us” Comments like this from children at the project encourage us and confirm that together we can make a difference one child at a time. Thank you for your support. Please explore our site to find out more.

Students are back at school and back at The University of Life. The second semester of the year is underway and now children helped by UNiViDA will be back in lessons for the whole day again.

Children in Fortaleza who have been out of school for almost 6 months are having a brief opportunity to go back to school this month as teacher unions decide to initiate schooling for 15 days. In what should be the beginning of the school holidays at the end of the first semester, children are now briefly back in the classroom.

Read more about the strikes in our latest newsletter.

Sleeping in the ATM Booth

Cash Point - Shelter for Brazilian Street Children

Street children in Brazil are harder to find during the day than at night. We took these photos last month of children sleeping in the early hours of the morning. As soon as the city wakes up, they were most likely abruptly awoken and foced to move on from their temporary shelter.