Criteria for funding

General points
SURVIVE-MIVA's fundamental aim is to provide mobility for outreach programmes which have been planned in collaboration and consultation with local communities in response to their needs and priorities. Such work must be aimed at bringing about advances in the human and spiritual development of the people our beneficiaries live among and serve.

Allocations Committee
Applications for funding are assessed by our Allocations Committee, which consists of four people, two men, and two women. They are all missionaries now based in the UK, but who are familiar with the problems faced by applicants, as they themselves have shared them, in Latin America and in Africa.

Communicating your need
We can process applications in the following languages only: Spanish, Catalán, Italian, Portuguese, French, and English. Do not worry if English is not your mother tongue. If you contact us about a possible application for funding, your task is to communicate your need for mobility, telling us your aims and objectives which cannot be satisfactorily met due to lack of transport.

The application
Though an application may be made via an individual, any grant made represents our support of a wider project involving more than one beneficiary. Vehicles funded by our Association are the property of the parish, clinic, or centre where they are based.

Due to financial constraints, we are unable to consider applications from schools, seminaries, houses of religious formation, for Diocesan officials, or for agricultural or specialised construction vehicles.

No assumptions
If you are thinking of contacting us concerning a possible application, remember that we make no assumptions about your work. It is your responsibility to tell us about your aims and objectives as precisely and concisely as you can.

Successful applicants make clear to us what it is they can start, consolidate, and build up during a particular period of time.

For this reason, if you contact us, you should make your aims and objectives: realistic, specific, measurable, and attainable within the life of the vehicle.

In the long-term
We recognise that long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency will not come about overnight, and that by its very nature, no vehicle we fund will last forever. The two, however, are not mutually incompatible. Given that all grants made are for new vehicles, beneficiaries can reasonably expect a trouble-free lifespan of at least 3-5 years - in many cases much longer.

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