Viva Rio

Viva Rio is a Rio de Janeiro civil society organisation founded in December 1993 in response to the Candelária and Vigário Geral massacres. For three decades it has worked on violence prevention, disarmament, public security and social development, combining research, community programmes and public campaigns with work in the city's favelas and peripheral neighbourhoods. Today it also operates as a social health organisation, while continuing to seek a society built on social justice, opportunity and humanity.