Beyond the Report

We know that there are (many) CIV cases with success much greater than what has been described in the final reports. This is due many factors, but the time is surely one important factor: many reports are written and some impacts are known just sometime later. One example: some days ago we knew about a Peru initiative where some youngsters received orientation and resources to study in preparation courses to enter college. That CIV was known as Pre-LDP. They reported that some of the participants had entered the university. Sometime later, more youngsters made it and entered college. These are long term results, beyond the report. Do you know something like that? Some CIV with impacts that are not in the report? Share!

Some places we visited in Ghana

Kitchen built with CIV funds

Children dancing at the project

During the Summit we had the opportunity to visit 2 projects where we saw a WASH intervention and also an Income Generation activity. The WASH intervention helped the project to built bathrooms to the kids and now they have a better environment to serve the beneficiaries. The same project also built a kitchen using CIV funds. The second project we visited completed an Income Generation activity that consisted in a "Grasscutter farming". Go ahead and click the link to know more about the Grasscutters. Besides that, these were very cultural visits, we saw the children dancing with traditional costumes and singing beautiful songs! Some of our team also took a chance to show their dancing skills!


Cape Coast Castle

We went to the Cape Coast Castle, place where the slaves were brought from many regions in Africa to be sold and taken to many countries of our America. It was a time of reflection about our history and how it affected lives of many people and families in the past. There's a door that was called as "Door of no Return", which was the gate that the slaves passed to go into the ships and never returned to their land. Nowadays it's called "Door of Return", name that was given after the end of the slave trade. It’s crucial to know the history so absurd mistakes like the slavery are not repeated ever!

"Door of No Return"

Meet Liv, CIV Administrator in Brazil

My name is Liv Almeida Nunes Ribeiro Dias, I'm 28, I am married and have no children.

I’ve been attending a Baptist church since I was born, where I accepted Christ as my Savior and I was baptized on December 26, 1994.

I started working for Compassion as a translator and after one year, in September 2004 I joined the staff as a SDS Associate, which made me very happy, because I understood and understand what I do in Compassion as a ministry in my life.

In July 2008 I was invited to join the PI team as Program Implementation Assistant, which allowed me to know other areas more deeply and gave me a broader view of the great work of reaching lives for Christ, which is developed by Compassion.

My target is every day be in the Lord's hands to accomplish what He wants for my life.

I love the ministry and vision of Compassion, and I thank God to be part of this ministry. I know I can contribute to Compassion in this new challenge, because I'm always open to learn.