SURVIVE-MIVA in pictures
The photographs in the gallery below help
illustrate the impact of SURVIVE-MIVA's work, providing vehicle grants, on the
lives of the poor and marginalised. Some of the
photographs have been included to show the difficult terrain that many of our
beneficiaries have to negotiate to carry out their work. Behind each image there
are innumerable stories of hope and progress being made.
Click on one of the small
pictures in the gallery to enlarge the picture and bring up the caption. You are
welcome to download any of the pictures but please credit SURVIVE-MIVA if you
are publishing them or showing them to an audience.
Please note that the photographs in this presentation are
not the work of professional photographers because SURVIVE-MIVA does not
have any staff overseas and we do not commission professional photographers
to provide images for us. We rely on the beneficiaries of our grants to send
us photographs showing the vehicle
within the context of its everyday use. Therefore,
the images are not necessarily of the highest quality, but I am sure you
will agree that they are wonderful images never the less.
SM 2682. Health outreach work in Tamil Nadu, India SM 1357. Health outreach work in Tamil Nadu, India SM 3012. Eye Camp in Tamil Nadu, India SM 3012. Teaching women tailoring skills in Tamil Nadu, India SM 2255 An auto-rickshaw (or tuk tuk) used by the Mary Mediatrix Sisters in Thimmerapet Parish, Diocese of Khammam, India. SM920 -939. Catechists in Kenya SM 3094. Youth leaders in Uganda SM 1263. Taking a patient to hospital in Zambia. SM1225 Deacon Joseph Kivuli of Miambani Parish, Diocese of Kitui, Kenya with his motorcycle, funded by SURVIVE-MIVA. SM 2238-2243 Bicycles being supplied to Community Health Workers attached to Mulanga Rural Health Centre, Chinsali, Zambia SM 1185. Boys help to build a new school for themselves in Kutchi Kohlis, Pakistan. SM 2723 Trekking through the Peruvian Andes. SM 1174. A SURVIVE-MIVA funded vehicle negotiates difficult terrain in Ecuador. SM 1223 Dangerous road conditions in Acequia Alta, Peru as seen from a SURVIVE-MIVA funded Landrover. SM 1223 More difficult terrain in Acequia Alta, Peru. SM 2249. A snow covered road in Patagonia, Argentina SM 1373. A 4-wheel drive vehicle used to support the AIDS programme run by the Medical Missionaries of Mary in Kitale Diocese, Kenya. SM 1171 Road in the Machakos district of Kenya. SM 1112. A slippery, sloping road in the Tanga region of Tanzania. SM 1096. A long and winding road in Haiti SM 1057. A 4-wheel drive vehicle is needed to cope with some of the poor road conditions in Bocaiuva do Sul, Brazil. SM 3000. A road in Orissa State, India SM 1353. A SURVIVE-MIVA funded jeep helped widen an outreach healthcare programme from Sagayamatha Hospital, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. SM 1666. A child health and nutrition programme in Campinhas do Sul, Brazil. SM 3082. Marialaya centre for Street Children, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Five Sisters belonging to the Institute of Foreign Missions visit 10 villages from their base in Pappannallur village. They provide medical care and health education. Jeeps in India cost around £7,000 - £12,000. A Mahindra jeep enabled the expansion of health outreach work from Idhaya Health Centre, Tirunelveli. The Sisters of the Destitute received a grant of £11,200 to buy a jeep so that they could provide health services to 12 villages within a 12km radius from the Arul Nilayam Health Centre, Pallalakuppam. As well as carrying out health outreach work the Sisters of the Destitute also provide vocational training. The rural Parish of Thimmerapet has 14 substations and the Mary Mediatrix Sisters carry out health work and give catechism classes with the families in the Parish. The auto-rickshaw cost £1,450 in April 2004. In 1996 twenty bicycles were supplied to the Diocese of Ngong in Kenya for use by Catechists, to assist them in making parish visits.
One bicycle purchased in an African country will usually cost between £40 - £70. A SURVIVE-MIVA grant of £1,400 purchased 33 bicycles for Young Xaverian Leaders in Nyamigisa Deanery, Diocese of Hoima. The Youth Leaders organise prayer meetings and bible study groups and train villagers in rearing hens, pigs and rabbits. 4-wheel drive vehicles in Africa cost in the region of £20,000 - £30,000. Note the terrain that the community health workers have to cycle on. The Presentation Sisters in 1996 purchased a jeep so that they could visit outlying villages to conduct educational, medical and pastoral work. To get to the villages the Sisters had to travel 'through dirt roads/trackless areas and through fields.' Sisters of Jesus the Word & Victim take a team of nurses, obstetricians and a dentist to visit 16 rural communities high in the Andes. Six of the communities can only be reached on foot or on horseback, but with the 4-wheel drive vehicle purchased with a SURVIVE-MIVA grant the Sisters can now cut down the time it takes to reach each of 10 of the communities, from 8-10 hours travel to 5-6 hours. This is the type of road that the Parish Priest of Pongwe Parish has to cope with on his visits to a community of people with leprosy. Using a SURVIVE-MIVA funded Landrover the Parish provides support to this community by bringing them food supplies and medicines, and taking people to hospital when necessary. Marialaya is run by the Salesian Sisters - they help street and working children, especially girls. The Sisters have set-up 35 centres and 100 contact points in North Chennai. They provide shelter, food, health check-ups, education, vocational & leadership training. A SURVIVE-MIVA grant of £7,000 purchased a jeep to enable Marialaya's work to be carried out more efficently and effectively.
SM 2682. Health outreach work in Tamil Nadu, India
Five Sisters belonging to the Institute of Foreign Missions visit 10 villages from their base in Pappannallur village. They provide medical care and health education. Jeeps in India cost around £7,000 - £12,000.
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