Our Values

Our Mission & Values	SURVIVE-MIVA's mission, in funding mobility, is to support and widen the work being done by those who share their lives with the poor.
We strive to live up to the Gospel values of love of one's neighbour. We believe that evangelisation always requires the transformation of an unjust social order; and that one of its primary tasks is to oppose and denounce such injustices. (The Common Good, paragraph 40) We believe there is an urgent need for structural change, so that all shall have access to security in food, shelter and clean water; to healthcare and to education. We will act with the responsibility partnership brings so that in spite of the obstacles, injustice will be denounced, and the opportunity to bring about change will be fostered by the mobility our Association provides.	'Love your neighbour as yourself' is central to what we do. We act simply as a channel for the generosity and sense of solidarity of Massgoers in England, Scotland, and Wales towards their sisters and brothers in the developing world. Mobility means access, and can be life-saving. Spiritually, the pastoral work which is made possible strengthens people's Faith - 'You are truly my disciples if you keep obeying my teachings, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free' ( John 8:32) From the 'favelas' of Brazil to the boy soldiers of Liberia, injustice is manifest all over the developing world. We cannot separate the pastoral and evangelical side of our partners' work from the realities that surround them. How can we be funding mobility so that our missionary brothers and sisters reach out to the poor with the Good News - that God loves them - when those same people live in conditions which are a denial of that love? Is it fair the Zambia, for example, spends five times as much paying interest on its debts as it does on education, or that Africa as a whole spends four times as much on debt servicing than on healthcare? To those of us who live in the industrialised world, these fundamentals don't seem much to ask, but their absence is what our partners and beneficiaries are faced with everyday. In the vacuum left by the State, people turn to them for medical and educational provision. It is for this reason that we support projects designed to challenge the everyday realities of life at the grassroots - by making agents of change mobile.