May 2009 Workshop on psychosocial interventions for vulnerable children
vivo was invited by Plan International to Burkina Faso todren facilitate a workshop with local experts. Fifty five participants from Senegal, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso were included. Read More...

Spring 2009 Rwandan psychologists trained by their own peers
vivo has been engaged with Rwandan survivors of genocide, still suffering from trauma-related consequences, since 2006. An important component was the training of a group of Rwandan psychologists by vivo experts in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), during the autumn of 2007. Read More...

APRIL 2009 vivo gives expert testimony at the ICC
On the 8th of April 2009 vivo stood as an expert witness on invitation of the presiding judge in the case “The Prosecutor versus Thomas Lubanga” at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Read More...

JANUARY – MARCH 2009 vivo starts up in Congo
31 participants, nurses, doctors and social assistants from various health organisations and state institutions – among them Panzi Referral Hospital, Sosame Psychiatric Hospital, IRC and V-Day, located in the South and North Kivus, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, participated in our NET training January – March 2009 in Bukavu. Read More...

SPRING 2008 Development of a child care system in Monterrey, Mexico
Many developing countries report exceptionally high rates of child maltreatment and abuse. At the same time, most of these states cannot provide sufficient socio-economic infrastructure resources and support to protect children who are the victims of family and/or community based violence. Read More...