Marie Lamboray's Posts - Community life competence2024-03-29T11:58:06ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamborayhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2523249279?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2nhmloewc5gxn&xn_auth=noSALT visit to groups and families supported by Standing Voice of the African Albinism Networktag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2022-12-01:2028109:BlogPost:2059802022-12-01T20:28:29.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>Report by Clement Chacha and Margaret Musumbi</em></p>
<p>The African Albinism Network (AAN) is a Voice grantee for the Link and Learn project. The grantee aims to promote human rights advocacy the dignity and welfare of persons with albinism and their family. Standing Voice is AAN’s right holder which is based in Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria. Standing Voice has established a training center named “Umoja Training Center”. The Umoja Training Centre (UTC) is a community space where…</p>
<p><em>Report by Clement Chacha and Margaret Musumbi</em></p>
<p>The African Albinism Network (AAN) is a Voice grantee for the Link and Learn project. The grantee aims to promote human rights advocacy the dignity and welfare of persons with albinism and their family. Standing Voice is AAN’s right holder which is based in Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria. Standing Voice has established a training center named “Umoja Training Center”. The Umoja Training Centre (UTC) is a community space where people with and without albinism come together to develop skills, establish businesses and form positive relationships; somewhere to belong and grow, to claim a stake in society and embrace others’ differences. ‘Umoja’ is the Swahili word for ‘Unity’. So basically the center provides a place of belonging and growth for people with albinism. The center caters for livelihood initiatives that include: tailoring mart, batik production, live band entertainment, and video production, film, and photographs making.</p>
<p>The aim of the SALT visits was to learn and appreciate the various initiatives that are conducted by people with albinism communities as a means to address their challenges which include income-generation needs, and experiences of albinism-related stigma or social division, isolation and exclusion. The visit methodology was SALT that is to stimulate, appreciate, learn and transfer the experience gained from those initiatives. Our group also visited a family with person with albinism which typically experienced the discrimination, stigmatization, and ostracism for the mother who gave birth to a child with albinism.</p>
<p>Generally the visit was to learn the role of support organization, neighbours, and family on alleviating the challenges faced by people with albinism. </p>
<p>Members of the group included:</p>
<ol>
<li>Charles Kalilo – Chairman of Tanzania Albinism Society Ukerewe- District</li>
<li>Asteria Christopher – Secretary Tanzania Albinism Society Ukerewe- District</li>
<li>Magdalena Christopher- Documentarist</li>
<li>Clement Chacha – Facilitator</li>
</ol>
<p></p>
<p><strong>1)Tailoring Group.</strong></p>
<p><em>What is the name of this group and how many members?</em></p>
<p>The name of the group is Tupendane Tailoring group. Five (5) members of the group were present during the visit but generally the group is composed of 8 members (4 with albinism and 4 without albinism) and 6 are women and only 2 are men.</p>
<p><em>Who is present today?</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Magafu Constantin – group instructor</li>
<li>Florentina Ngoroma – Group Chairperson</li>
<li>Charles Kalilo – Group Member</li>
<li>Asteria Christopher – Group member</li>
<li>Neema Kajaja – Group Member</li>
</ul>
<p><em>What is the aim of your group?</em></p>
<p>The aim of this group is to enable us to have income for our living and get away from bagging (dependents).</p>
<p><em>Can you give a short history of your group?</em></p>
<p>The group is among the products of the Umoja Training Center. It was formulated in 2016 and officially registered by the government in 2019. Initially it was just like a congregating point where everyone was coming with her equipment or tools to make her own product. It was until 2020 when an instructor was brought in and taught us how to make hats special for people with albinism to protect them from direct sun rays. Generally the instructor has contributed a lot to our successes particularly in making quality products, we thank him very much. We also appreciate the support from Standing Voice which has made not only this group to realise great achievements, but also for other groups under this training center.</p>
<p>We produce about 30 hats a day which are sold for about 8,000 Tanzanian shillings (close to 4 dollars) and Standing Voice is our major buyer to supply for other persons with albinism outside Ukerewe Island.</p>
<p><em>What is the major achievement and what contributed to that achievement (how did you reach where you are?)</em></p>
<p>The major achievement is mainly economic gain. From this activity we are able to financially support ourselves and our families. We reached where we are through the support of Standing Voice, the instructor and our own commitment, efforts, and self-motivation.</p>
<p>The other achievement is the major changes which we have experienced from isolation, stigma, oppression, and social distancing which for us has dwindled significantly because we are no longer dependent on others. “If you are economically strong you can hardly be stigmatized or isolated.” Instead the person with albinism who is economically weak or dependent is at a great risk for isolation, stigmatization, exclusion and persecution.</p>
<p><em>What are the experiences you can share related to your challenges and the way you overcame them?</em></p>
<p>Testimonies</p>
<p>“I was making and selling snacks, but customers were not coming to buy even if they were finished from other sellers. Those few who tested my product and found them to be excellent and tasty gave me conditions including not touching the snacks in any form instead they were serving themselves”. <em>Asteria.</em></p>
<p>“When I joined the tailoring training school, my fellow trainees were laughing at me, especially during threading the needle, because of my low vision I was unable to see the needles’ hole. No one was ready to assist because they were not willing to share anything with me. I felt very disgusted and at one time I was about to quit the training, but my instructor came to my rescue because he intervened to stop any kind of malpractice and stigma against me. Later it was proved that I was the best student because my performance was excellent. They were forced to accept that but never appreciated fully, but to me it was a consolation and I felt proud of that." <em>Florentina.</em></p>
<p>"When I started my career, I was subject to a very poor market despite making better quality than other tailors. People were scared to buy my products simply because of my albinism condition. Furthermore, the place I rented my colleagues wanted me to leave because they claimed I was scaring people to come there. Although the owner, who was my relative, refused their claim, the pressure was too much and I later decided to leave. But I never despaired. I continued working from other places and slowly people appreciated my products although it took longer time to reach there." <em>Florentina.</em></p>
<p>Currently the level of stigma and persecution has lowered significantly to me because now they appreciate the quality of my product and customers are coming to buy. But it started by getting away from dependency and later people started trusting and appreciating what I do. You see now neighbours can come to me and request salt or other beverages because they know I have the capacity of possessing them because I have money, so those one cannot stigmatize, isolate or persecute me. <em>Neema</em></p>
<p>A neighbour passed away so we went to mourn with a group of friends. But the time for preparing food they refused me to participate claiming that mourners will refuse to eat. I could not imagine those were the people who claimed to be my friends and company mates. I felt bad and left the place. But with my friend we planned to overcome that stigma which we later succeeded. <em>Florantina.</em></p>
<p>The other time we went for mourning ceremonies and with my colleagues who are persons with albinism rushed to the kitchen to start preparing food. We wanted to see if truly people will refuse to eat or touch the utensils we have touched. There was no option that day. People accepted the meal we prepared and we felt it was a victory against stigma. Neema.</p>
<p><em>With the experience you obtained, what message you can share to other persons with albinism?</em></p>
<ul>
<li>For a person with albinism to get away from stigma, isolation and other social distancing they need to get away from dependency and become economically capable. To achieve that, persons with albinism need to be very aggressive, determined and hard workers. They need to do much more than people without albinism as it is not easy to go through the stakes unless they are aggressive and hard workers. This is what we all did and that is why we are here. <em>Neema, Asteria, Charles and Florentina.</em></li>
<li>If you have a potential customer like Standing Voice, you likely to triumph. We received a loan of 7 million shillings and we can earn our living and be able to repay the loan.</li>
<li>The determination is a weapon and leads to achievement of our dreams.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>What is your dream on this livelihood initiative? (what are you envisaging to see in a near future)</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Our vision is to expand our business and to look for new markets. We feel that there are other persons with albinism who are in need of the products we are making (hats) because it is an important tool to protect them from skin cancer which are the result of direct sun rays, and our dream is to provide them with this protective gadget for their health and wellbeing.</li>
<li>We also want our fellow with albinism to learn from us and we even encourage them to join us for income generating initiative so that they get out of dependency which makes them weak and vulnerable to social isolation and other oppression.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ol start="2">
<li><strong>SALT Visit to Entertainment Group</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>This entertainment group is known as the Tanzania Albinism Collective.</p>
<p>During the visit, we met 3 members of 4.</p>
<ol>
<li>Amedulidus Lucas</li>
<li>Christina Waguru</li>
<li>Thereza Finus</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Short History</em></p>
<p>The group started in 2017.</p>
<p><em>What is the aim?</em></p>
<p>The aim is to educate people about albinism and at the same time entertain them.</p>
<p><em>How many Members?</em></p>
<p>Founder Members of the group were 5, but currently we have remained</p>
<p><em>What are the achievements and what contributed to those achievements?</em></p>
<p>We have composed many songs and have uploaded them in You tube, however there are not many followers. The backborn of our achievement is the support from Standing Voice and secondly our determination, inspirations and talents. We also believe that through music we can educate many people on albinism so that they get away from myths and misconceptions against albinism. Standing Voice has supported us in many avenues and are continuing to do so, we appreciate their support.</p>
<p><em>Where do you see yourself in years ahead?</em></p>
<p>Our dream is to secure a platform to perform during national festivals so that we can be seen and heard by many people live and through different media. This is a good way of making us popular. As we get popular people will learn and hear much about albinism and that will make them change their mind set.</p>
<p>We also want to visit schools and perform and deliver messages about albinism to the young generation so that they don’t fall into the myth and misconception about albinism.</p>
<p><em>Why not start performing in public places in Ukerewe and making yourself popular at home (charity starts at home)?</em></p>
<p>That is a good idea, maybe we haven’t thought about that, we will work on it.</p>
<p> </p>
<ol start="3">
<li><strong><em>Visit to a home of a person with albinism.</em></strong></li>
</ol>
<p><em>Can you share a brief story about your son Vedastus who was born with albinism?</em></p>
<p>I am Evedina Zangule. I am a mother to Vedastus who is a person with albinism. He was born on Sunday 2nd, August, 1994. I was informed by the birth attendant that my newly born child is with albinism but she encouraged me not to be scared. The relative of my husband who were present advised me to secretly kill the child instantly because the child is a curse but I hesitated. As a result of my refusal I was not allowed to enter my home and was chased away with my newly born child. I was told by my husband’s siblings that no one in their family will marry or get married if that child is allowed into their home and will cause people to die.</p>
<p><em>What happened after being chased from home?</em></p>
<p>My expulsion led me to stay in a nearby mountain and was getting food from my aunt but the aunt was not allowing me to live there but only eat and leave.</p>
<p><em>What other challenges did you encounter during the moments of raising up your albinism child?</em></p>
<p>The time of raising Vedastus I went through very difficult moments including</p>
<ul>
<li>Confiscation of my plot</li>
<li>His father refused the albinism child to be identified after his name</li>
<li>My son was called bad names (insulting names)</li>
<li>Refused to enter any house carrying the albinism child because it was a curse.</li>
<li>Rejected by the husband</li>
<li>Staying in a juggle (in a mountain) because was not accepted to enter any homes</li>
<li>The extent of my discrimination, isolation, oppression was extremely high and it was almost from everyone and it was a big pain to me and the child.</li>
<li>Relatives do not visit my home to date</li>
<li>The father has never contacted me to date</li>
</ul>
<p><em>How did you overcome that intimidating situation?</em></p>
<p>I was informed of the existence of an organization called standing voice. I contacted them and took my child Vedastus to school (primary school) and post primary school studies and was responsible for all costs and other requirements. My success and that of my child was made possible by Standing Voice. Standing Voice also gave me the courage and financial support which made me secure a permanent residence and money to earn a living.</p>
<p><em>Do you have any message to share on the experience you got when going through those difficult moments?</em></p>
<ul>
<li>The level of social exclusion, persecution, isolation and ostracism related to albinism is very high and the situation is rooted from cultural background and is associated with taboos, beliefs, myths and hearsay stories.</li>
<li>Poor families have a double burden raising a child with albinism and it is not easy for such families to overcome the challenges ahead to preserve the lives of such children and so many of them die prematurely.</li>
<li>Economic empowerment is a powerful tool to overcome the challenges faced by people with albinism</li>
<li>An organization that support people with albinism has a great contribution to empower the people with albinism community</li>
<li>Neighbours have a big stake in the welfare of the child with albinism</li>
<li>Community and families need to be educated to change their mind set on albinism</li>
<li>Extra efforts are required from the entire society i.e. government, religious settings, community leaders etc to work together to reverse the bad situation that face people with albinism.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>What I you doing now as your contribution to alleviate the challenges faced with persons with albinism and their families?</em></p>
<p>My experience has led me to join a women's group in which we respond to any child born with albinism to provide support and encouragement to overcome the situation I experienced. We have managed to rescue several mothers and children and recently we managed to reunite the wife who was rejected by her husband because of giving birth to a child with albinism. Our group has been popular in such a way that no woman in this Island who gives birth to a child with albinism will miss contacting us for support and family stabilization. We are proud that we are doing this task successfully.</p>
<p><em>What are your conclusive remarks?</em></p>
<p>Stigma against persons with albinism is still strong although to some extent it is lessening as we put efforts to overcome it. We need to double the efforts and bring in many players to join hands.</p>
<p> </p>
<ol start="4">
<li><strong>Home visit to Nickson’s Home</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>Dated 22/11/2022.</p>
<p>Team members</p>
<p>Annabahati…AAN</p>
<p>Chrispine…. Standing Voice</p>
<p>Naila Omari…..film maker</p>
<p>MUSSA……..TANZANIA ALBINISM SOCIETY</p>
<p>Margaret….. facilitator_constellation.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The team visited Jackson, 24 years old father of Nickson and Nickson's mother, 20 years old.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The story shared was that last year 27thNov 2022 Nickson was born with albinism. The family and the whole village was shocked by this. The beliefs and myths around ALBINISM in that village are that:</p>
<ul>
<li>Albino’s body parts are valuable. When people visit the witch doctors, they are asked to bring albino body parts like hands, fingers,hair etc. The belief has it that the body parts will be used in witchcraft to make one rich.</li>
<li>That albinos do not die and they do not become old</li>
<li>That they just disappear.</li>
</ul>
<p>Those things were terrifying to Jackson so he chased the wife and the child. The wife went back to her parents.</p>
<p>In the cause of time it was reported to the government authorities what Jackson had done and he was arrested. While under arrest he got someone who gave him information and awareness concerning people with ALBINISM. Also Standing Voice staff (Chrispine) came into the picture and gave him more awareness. What followed is that Jackson reconciled with his wife. Standing Voice organized an awareness meeting in Jackso's village. The community meeting was like a turning point for the family and members of the community because from that time on relationships in family have improved as you can see on the home visit, and attitudes towards persons with ALBINISM changed. Nickson is the only child with ALBINISM in that village. There is acceptance today. The mother joined a group that meets at the Umoja Community cCnter, Ukerewe where she is getting more awareness and education.</p>
<p>Jackson showed a great change of his way of thinking and readiness to care for his family.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Reflection after SALT visit</strong></p>
<p><em>What went well (How was the visit, what was inspiring? what was helpful for the conversation)</em></p>
<ul>
<li>The road was very good</li>
<li>Respect for culture</li>
<li>Family was united</li>
<li>We mixed well with the visited family</li>
<li>Openness of the father/mother</li>
<li>Overcoming of peer pressure, fear</li>
<li>Everybody participated</li>
<li>Facilitation was excellent</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Lesson learned</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Persons with albinism can overcome their challenges whenever empowered</li>
<li>Economic empowerment is a strong tool to overcome challenges ahead of persons with albinism</li>
<li>Poor family are the most affected and are in great risk</li>
<li>Success to overcome albinism challenges requires concerted efforts across many players</li>
<li>Challenges for albinism is rooted from cultural settings</li>
<li>Efforts to change the mind set against albinism need to continuous</li>
<li>The visited family linked their actual situation when providing their experience</li>
<li>They have confidence in themselves after overcoming the stigma.</li>
<li>Women group that support family with persons living with albinism has a great contribution towards changing the mind set</li>
<li>Persons with albinism can attain their dream</li>
<li>Many people with albinism share similar challenges and dreams.</li>
<li>Organisation that support albinism provides a window of opportunity to bring them together so that they are able to demonstrate their talents and capabilities.</li>
<li>Musician can start at Ukerewe by performing in public places.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>How can we improve next time?</em></p>
<ul>
<li>Have the mechanism to share the best practices with others i.e. people with albinism who cannot access hats to protect from direct sun rays can order from Ukerewe.</li>
<li>Give more to share more stories and testimonies.</li>
<li>Think of more face to face because it is very stimulating and inspiring.</li>
<li>The discussion time needs to be increased to allow time for people to share their experience and inspirations.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>Providing effective help to flood victims/ Apporter une aide efficace aux victimes d'innondationstag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2021-11-10:2028109:BlogPost:2027572021-11-10T09:14:55.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>(en français ci-dessous)</em></p>
<p><em>To reconnect with people inspired by SALT, members of BelCompetence (The Constellation Belgium) regularly cycle all over Belgium. The following is taken from the report of their October bike tour.</em></p>
<p><strong>Claude and Bernadette tell us about the floods that occured in July.</strong> They both experienced them very closely and their consequences still fill their daily lives. They tell us about the efficient and warm solidarity that was…</p>
<p><em>(en français ci-dessous)</em></p>
<p><em>To reconnect with people inspired by SALT, members of BelCompetence (The Constellation Belgium) regularly cycle all over Belgium. The following is taken from the report of their October bike tour.</em></p>
<p><strong>Claude and Bernadette tell us about the floods that occured in July.</strong> They both experienced them very closely and their consequences still fill their daily lives. They tell us about the efficient and warm solidarity that was shown locally and by our Flanders neighbours! </p>
<p>We hear two very different accounts. They reveal the difficulties encountered in helping disaster victims: each person experiences the encounter with his or her own personality and, even for the most sociable, it is sometimes a very difficult confrontation!</p>
<p><strong>Our conclusions for providing effective help:</strong></p>
<p>Group disaster victims by neighbourhood, with effective means of communication (list of people to contact and website).</p>
<p>Set up personalised groups where solidarity is created and maintained. Put them in touch with resource persons to provide targeted help.</p>
<p>Set up a citizens' agora: Citizens reflect together on the actions to be taken; They work together and with the support of the authorities.</p>
<p>Spend time with people. To be able to put yourself in their shoes. Even if some disaster victims remain completely closed to contact with the most sociable volunteers, refusing to help out of pride or modesty, the meeting often holds good surprises. Be attentive to all voices: those of volunteers and those of the disaster victims, support them in the long term, encourage resilience.</p>
<p>Propose sponsorships.</p>
<p>Monitor the donation circuit.</p>
<p>Work in the long term: problem of humidity in housing, look for gas heaters (price!) + CO2 detector. Prepare for Christmas. </p>
<p><strong>Some difficulties encountered:</strong></p>
<p>An announcement discouraged donations by announcing saturation. </p>
<p>Lack of communication, lack of mobility of donations and people.</p>
<p> </p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><em>Dans l'envie de retrouver des personnes inspirées par SALT, des membres de BelCompetence parcourent régulièrement la Belgique à vélo. Le compte-rendu qui suit est tiré du rapport de leur tour à vélo d'octobre.</em></p>
<p><strong>Claude et Bernadette nous parlent des récentes inondations.</strong> Elles les ont vécus toutes deux de très près et leurs conséquences remplissent encore leur quotidien. Elles nous racontent l’efficace et chaleureuse solidarité qui s’est manifestée localement et celle apportée par nos voisins de Flandre !</p>
<p>Nous entendons deux témoignages très différents. Ils révèlent les difficultés rencontrées dans l’aide aux sinistrés : chacun vit la rencontre avec sa personnalité et, même pour les plus sociables, c’est une confrontation parfois bien difficile !</p>
<p><strong>Nos conclusions pour apporter une aide efficace</strong> :</p>
<ul>
<li>Regrouper les sinistrés par quartier, avec des moyens de communication efficaces (liste de responsables à contacter et site internet).</li>
</ul>
<p>Constituer des groupes personnalisés où la solidarité se crée et s’entretient. Les mettre en lien les personnes ressources pour apporter une aide ciblée.</p>
<ul>
<li>Constituer une agora citoyenne :</li>
<li>Les citoyens y réfléchissent ensemble aux actions à mener</li>
<li>Ils travaillent en collaboration et avec le soutien des autorités</li>
<li>Passer du temps avec les gens. Pouvoir se mettre à leur place. Ecouter toutes les voix sans préjugé, Même si certains sinistrés restent complètement fermés au contact des bénévoles les plus sociables, refusant l’aide par fierté, par pudeur, la rencontre réserve souvent de bonnes surprises Diffuser l’information. Être attentif à toutes les voix : celles des bonnes volontés et celles des sinistrés, les soutenir à long terme, encourager la résilience.</li>
<li>Proposer des parrainages</li>
<li>Surveiller le circuit des dons </li>
<li>Travailler dans le long terme : problème de l’humidité des logements, chercher des chauffages à gaz (prix !) + détecteur deCO2. Préparer Noël.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Quelques difficultés rencontrées</strong> :</p>
<ul>
<li>Une annonce a découragé les dons en annonçant une saturation. </li>
<li>Manque de communication, peu de mobilité des dons et des gens : certains dons restent en panne !</li>
</ul>
<p></p>The Constellation 2020 Reporttag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2021-06-24:2028109:BlogPost:2008512021-06-24T08:28:44.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(en français ci-dessous)</em></span></p>
<p>Dear Friends of The Constellation,</p>
<p>We are pleased to share with you The Constellation 2020 Report: <a href="https://the-constellation.org/the-constellation-report-2020-english/" id="sample-permalink" name="sample-permalink">https://the-constellation.org/the-constellation-report-2020-english/…</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>(en français ci-dessous)</em></span></p>
<p>Dear Friends of The Constellation,</p>
<p>We are pleased to share with you The Constellation 2020 Report: <a id="sample-permalink" href="https://the-constellation.org/the-constellation-report-2020-english/" name="sample-permalink">https://the-constellation.org/the-constellation-report-2020-english/</a></p>
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<p><em>“2020. </em><em>Co</em><em>vid-19 put the world upside down. The ‘normal’ in the lives of organisations, communities, neighbourhoods, families, and individuals was challenged. Also, for The Constellation, its teams, its partners and its members. This annual report makes a tour around the world and the account makes us hopeful.”</em></p>
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<p>For the encouragement and inspiration that we receive from your experience and reflection, thank you to all of you who have contributed to this report. Thank you to The Constellation Board team. Thank you to Anne Brouha and The Constellation Belgique; Kees Lafeber and Happy Green Island; Taha Maatoug and his health teams; Adam Kosnan, Grace Toh, Maizy Tan, Norashikin Abdul Refaiie, Ranganayaki Thangavelu and Beyond Social Services; Wiwin Winarni and IndoCompetence; and their communities.</p>
<p>We wish you a happy reading and look forward to your feedback.</p>
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<p>Chers amis et chères amies de La Constellation,</p>
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<p><em>« 2020. Le Covid a mis le monde sens dessus dessous. Ce qui était considéré comme "normal" dans la vie des organisations, des communautés, des quartiers, des familles et des individus a été remis en question. De même pour La Constellation, ses équipes, ses partenaires et ses membres. Ce rapport annuel fait un tour du monde et le récit nous donne de l'espoir. »</em></p>
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<p>Pour l’encouragement et l’inspiration que nous offrent votre expérience et votre réflexion, merci à tous ceux qui ont contribué à ce récit. Merci à l’équipe du Conseil de La Constellation. Merci à Anne Brouha et La Constellation Belgique ; Kees Lafeber et Happy Green Island ; Taha Maatoug et ses équipes médicales ; Adam Kosnan, Grace Toh, Maizy Tan, Norashikin Abdul Refaiie, Ranganayaki Thangavelu et Beyond Social Services ; Wiwin Winarni et IndoCompetence ; et leurs communautés.</p>
<p>Nous vous souhaitons bonne lecture et serions heureux d’avoir votre feedback !</p>The circle at the service of human connectiontag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2021-04-01:2028109:BlogPost:2000132021-04-01T10:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>The circle is inspired by the Dialogues of the quantum physicist David Bohm, a contemporary and friend of Einstein. It is a process of introspection and exchange with others. There is no search for convergence with the visions of the other members of the circle, but simply the expression of resonances. By searching in our own depths for what is alive (which we may never have seen or touched before), we inspire each other. The more multiple and diverse the visions are, the more contradictions…</p>
<p>The circle is inspired by the Dialogues of the quantum physicist David Bohm, a contemporary and friend of Einstein. It is a process of introspection and exchange with others. There is no search for convergence with the visions of the other members of the circle, but simply the expression of resonances. By searching in our own depths for what is alive (which we may never have seen or touched before), we inspire each other. The more multiple and diverse the visions are, the more contradictions and paradoxes we touch, the closer we get to reality...</p>
<p>Dialogue becomes a place of collective learning from which a greater sense of harmony, camaraderie and creativity can emerge.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">Nathalie Legros</p>
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<p><em>Friday the 5th of March 2021, Celicia Theys, Jan Somers, Jean-Louis Lamboray, Kausar Khan, Liza Dignac, Michel Wils, Tom Koninckx and Xenia Orgielewski talked about circles. Here are contents of the conversation.</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Stories</span></p>
<p>Liza:</p>
<p>The first time I heard about circles it was through Nathalie Legros. She proposed it in our workplace at the European Commission, and it was a challenge as it was not really a quiet place and it had never been done before. I remember saying to myself: “I hope that there will be nobody working directly with me.” It was great. We learned a lot about each other and, with time it became something that we needed. Two-three years after, we used it in our everyday work, in unit meetings…it became a common tool.</p>
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<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>We were to have a meeting on AIDS in Indonesia, and the AIDS programme director was to be there, the wife of a governor, the director of UNFPA… My proposition to do a circle was declined at first: “In our culture, this is impossible.” It does take some guts to persevere and say: “No, they are humans too, they will enjoy it.” I remember how relieved the high ranked officials were to act as humans in a circle, and others to see that they enjoyed it.</p>
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<p>Xenia:</p>
<p>Last September, between two lockdowns, I opened my Emagine Centre for maybe two weeks. We asked people: “Aren’t you afraid to sit all together inside?” And we had this circle about the quality of life: “Add life to our days instead of adding days to our life.” A participant was a lady who works with the dying. Everyone in the circle was talking to her. There was this wonderful quality of circle and knowledge because we shared stories. So, even though we had a theme, we were sharing this magical moment. Even with a theme you can have a lot of co-creation of wisdom.</p>
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<p>BelCompetence (The Constellation Belgium) and circles:</p>
<p>Celicia, Jan, Jean-Louis and Patricia:</p>
<p>In BelCompetence, we practiced something that we called the <em>cercle de vie</em> where we shared and talked about individual dreams and practices. It was based on Sandrine Ruppol’s wish of supporting each other in our individual journey with the approach. For instance, I remember we talked about the practice: “I use happiness as a compass.”</p>
<p>It was an inspiring and relieving moment. We started it as an open discussion then it concentrated on practices then it went open again.</p>
<p>There has been an evolution towards something different. Nathalie was always drawing as we talked. That day Nathalie was drawing a spiral getting stronger and longer as people were sharing. We felt that, even though it was never the intent, there was resonance—the field, as we call it—that made a collective narrative happen through individual narratives.</p>
<p>We feel it is an important space to offer today to reauthor our story in these momentous times and to listen to the interconnections between us.</p>
<p>We are convinced at BelCompetence that a circle can provide the environment for change.</p>
<p>In our discordant pandemic climate, the place of a circle is all the more important and the need to maintain it is even more imperative.</p>
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<p>Tom:</p>
<p>We need more circles. We cannot have enough circles.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The practice</span></p>
<p>Tom:</p>
<p><strong>It is about building a container—bringing in safety, inclusion, equality, a leader in each chair, welcoming what wants to emerge—and holding that space where people can go deeper in whatever is on their minds.</strong></p>
<p>I do think that there is a strong muscle building practice. I sense the difference between someone who is doing his or her first circle or did some circles. I often see that people in a first circle just listen. They are new to the space. It can be overwhelming at the beginning to get used to that field.</p>
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<p>Patricia:</p>
<p>We put our analytical brain to rest, we mute it, and we <strong>share</strong> solely in the present moment with no judgement and preconceived ideas.</p>
<p>Some authors working on Bohm’s work say that this kind of dialogue involves humility and patience.</p>
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<p>Kausar:</p>
<p>In our ancient poetry, there is a lot of talk about <strong>listening to your heart</strong>. As one of them said: the head is like a donkey walking on ice so discover the heart that connects to people.</p>
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<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>There is a circle as a container then there are processes within that cercle. For example, the <strong>Samoan circle</strong>, the fishbowl technique which we use in the Agora of Grez-Doiceau. A big circle of people who are silent. If you want to talk, you go in the middle where there are five or six chairs; one must always stay free. We have done quite a few of them. It always had a topic: car circulation in the centre of the village, dealing with agriculture’s toxic product…</p>
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<p>Celicia:</p>
<p>Then there is the circle as a <strong>practice in itself</strong>. It is not just the form that the discussion takes, or its intention or purpose, but a practice itself leads to different kinds of sharing not just through the shape of the circle but very much through the embodiment or the way the facilitator holds the space.</p>
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<p>Patricia:</p>
<p>The pillars of this kind of circle [<strong>Bohm circle</strong>] are: sharing without any agenda; in other words, no decision to be made, no problem to be solved or result to be achieved, no intention. We simply invite everybody into the circle to express their <strong>feelings</strong> in the moment. Everyone is <strong>listening</strong>. We may stay <strong>silent</strong> and offer to the circle a moment of quiet.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The purpose of the circle</span></p>
<p>Tom:</p>
<p>You only have to create the circumstances and then, like popcorn, ideas pop up and influence each other because it is a system. A circle is at the service of <strong>human connection</strong>.</p>
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<p>Xenia:</p>
<p>I think that there are circles with themes and circles to just <strong>co-create meaning</strong> together.</p>
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<p>Celicia:</p>
<p>The circle made a <strong>collective narrative</strong> happen through individual narratives.</p>
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<p>Jan:</p>
<p>The circle creates an energy field. It is an <strong>inspiring</strong> and <strong>relieving</strong> moment.</p>
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<p>Patricia:</p>
<p>The process then allows us to discover <strong>new skills and new ideas</strong> can emerge. Everything becomes clearer. It allows us to <strong>identify better what action should be taken</strong> and <strong>overcome uncertainty</strong>.</p>
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<p>Xenia:</p>
<p><strong>“Adding life to our days instead of adding days to our life.”</strong></p>
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<p>Kausar:</p>
<p>I feel that the SALT session I facilitate are two circles. We are trying to swim together with a sense of equality that prevails in the <strong>learning</strong> process. Paul Sartre says: “Both are learners, the educator and the educatee,” which I find resonates with what SALT says: “Both sides learn, the facilitator and the group.”</p>
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<p>Xenia:</p>
<p><strong>“A safe space for unsafe dialogue.”</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The role of the facilitator</span></p>
<p>Tom:</p>
<p>My experience is that if you sit in a circle of like-minded people it never goes deep. It is the diversity you need in a circle.</p>
<p>The problem is that you need to <strong>hold the space</strong> for it so that means the facilitation skills to allow the diversity to meet.</p>
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<p>About the role of the facilitator, I can say that when I am tired and tense it influences the field. If I ground myself and open up, magic happens.</p>
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<p>Jan:</p>
<p>The facilitator must <strong>block any interference</strong> [hierarchy, preconceived ideas, positive or negative judgement, fear of going beyond, analytical brain…].</p>
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<p>Patricia:</p>
<p>Positive or negative judgement acts as a filter distancing us from the present. While we suspend it, it allows us to remain as close as possible to the experience lived in the moment.</p>
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<p>Celicia:</p>
<p>How do you put the analytical mind to rest? I think you don’t and that is where the practice of the facilitator is so important. It is a mindfulness practice; by doing that for yourself as a facilitator, you are allowing it to exist in the circle as well.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">How do you open the space?</span></p>
<p>Tom:</p>
<p>The circle starts and stops.</p>
<p>A good thing is just to ask explicitly people who check in to <strong>drop their functions</strong>. It is like a magic trick and it just helps people to get in the space of sharing.</p>
<p>It reminds me of what I did in Vilvoorde: That magic moment of having people <strong>telling a story to each other</strong> is already setting the container, opening it up.</p>
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<p>Jan:</p>
<p>It reminds me of an exercise I did with Marlou in Amsterdam where we were asked to write down on a piece of paper either our highest diploma, certificate, or title that we had received and then we were <strong>asked to rip it apart</strong> and throw it in the middle: “We are all humans!”</p>
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<p>Michel:</p>
<p>When I start a circle, the first thing I do is help people to be in their body, especially for people who are new to the circle. Put their minds into rest and <strong>be in their body</strong>, to touch their chair for example. <strong>Ask people what they feel</strong>—most people will talk about what they think.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">An all times way to relate to each other</span></p>
<p>Xenia:</p>
<p>The circle is not an invention of our time. At some point, we developed something to get together to share and learn from each other and it went well in a circle. Nowadays when we talk about this container, we say the facilitator has to do this and that. I am not sure that in those circles in the native societies they even had a facilitator. Somehow, they related to each other and it went well when they were in a circle and they felt it was a sacred place. The practice was part of them. They did not need anybody to remind them about how to feel safe. I think that there were circles with themes and circles to just co-create meaning together.</p>
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<p>Kausar:</p>
<p>Religious groups from early ages to date get together in circles. It is a safe space, and everybody can come in and out. People were not talking about circles; they were simply doing it. What we are doing now is taking a step back and looking at that.</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8743091253?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8743091253?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>What is storytelling and how does it relate to SALT?tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2021-02-26:2028109:BlogPost:1996672021-02-26T07:30:44.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p><em>Jean-Louis Lamboray gave a series of seminars to social service students of the Potsdam University, inviting SALT-CLCP facilitators from Belgium, England, France, India, Kenya, Spain, Thailand, and The Netherlands: “An authentic learning community unfolded as we shared about SALT and CLCP, so we decided to continue. Join us!”</em></p>
<p><em>Bellow are the minutes of our first session about storytelling and SALT on Friday, the 5th of February.</em></p>
<p><em>With Celicia,…</em></p>
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<p><em>Jean-Louis Lamboray gave a series of seminars to social service students of the Potsdam University, inviting SALT-CLCP facilitators from Belgium, England, France, India, Kenya, Spain, Thailand, and The Netherlands: “An authentic learning community unfolded as we shared about SALT and CLCP, so we decided to continue. Join us!”</em></p>
<p><em>Bellow are the minutes of our first session about storytelling and SALT on Friday, the 5th of February.</em></p>
<p><em>With Celicia, Jean-Louis, Kausar, Liza, Marijo, Marie, Marlou, Patricia, Rituu and Xenia.</em></p>
<p><em>Contact us if you would like to join. Next meeting Friday, the 5th of March at 10:15 CET.</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What is storytelling?</span></p>
<p>Storytelling can be related to child storytelling, biography, many things.</p>
<p><strong>Storytelling is wisdom</strong></p>
<p><strong>Facts and reflection coming together</strong></p>
<p>MariJo:</p>
<p>I have met storytelling years ago, and it was magic as are some things that happen in life. I met someone who talked about storytelling in a way that is not just to entertain or so. I learned the importance of folk stories [stories passed on traditionally] and how they can be used to have a reflection on our own life. Folk stories are pearls of wisdom from our old ancestors to teach new generations. Then I had the opportunity to do a collection of life narratives of women living with HIV/AIDS in Spain. With life narratives you give a space to a person to recall things from her life and reflect on it. Not analysing but not just telling anecdotal facts: “I did this, I went to university, I was diagnoses and then…” The important thing is that people start thinking about what those facts mean in their lives. Storytelling is about two things coming together: facts and reflection, and taking the lesson learned. It is telling people a story—not in a way of giving them lessons—but in a way from where people can learn. Exactly in the same way people use to tell folk stories. Or like myths. One story compiles wisdom.</p>
<p><em>Healing through our stories: women constructing HIV historic memory:</em> <a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/more-on-storytelling"><em>https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/more-on-storytelling</em></a></p>
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<p><strong>Storytelling is medicine</strong></p>
<p>Xenia:</p>
<p>Storytelling can be good medicine. When somebody reflects on his or her life, we get new insights about who we are. It is without wanting to teach or preach. We receive a kind of medicine for our soul because we then resonate with what happened in the other life and we learn from it.</p>
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<p><strong>Storytelling is a two-way process</strong></p>
<p>Rituu:</p>
<p>It is not only the person telling the story but also the person listening. Of course, I loved stories as a child listening to my mother and grandmother, but, as an adult, when I listened to MariJo, for instance, it was a transformative experience for me. It was healing and left a deep mark on me. It is a two-way process. </p>
<p><em>Disclosure- a turning point in my life:</em> <a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/disclosure-a-turning-point-in"><em>https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/disclosure-a-turning-point-in</em></a></p>
<p>Xenia:</p>
<p>As Rituu says, it is a process and sometimes in another direction than we think. We are human beings and “storying beings”. So, whatever we hear, we create a story from it. This happens not only when I listen to a story. When someone tells us something, it might be one single sentence, we attach a story to it. We add meaning, reflexions of our own coming from what we have learned.</p>
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<p><strong>Storytelling can allow distance to the facts to discuss a conflictual situation</strong></p>
<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>MariJo, in the introduction of the book <a href="https://what-makes-us-human.com/about/">What makes us human</a>, said that I wrote as a storyteller. In Congo, when something was difficult, the community would resort to a story. They would use stories to preserve people who are in trouble in the community, not going straight to the problem as it would lead to anger and violence. When this community told me the story of the village buying a truck to sell produce and asking me who is the chief of the truck was about complaining about the nurse. But the nurse did not lose face. So, here, the story allows distance to the facts and to disentangle a situation. I made up stories to answer health challenges.</p>
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<p><strong>An unexpected resolution leads to learning</strong></p>
<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>In some stories that I use to stimulate reflexion, there is a moment of heightened tension and then an unexpected resolution. That is when there is learning. It is then up to the listener to reflect on what he or she learns from it, how it resonated with her or his experience, and what one can do with it in her or his own life. This learning element might be the link between storytelling and SALT.</p>
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<p><strong>Powerful titles</strong></p>
<p>Rituu:</p>
<p>The titles of What makes us human stories are remarkable, powerful. For instance, ‘I was a radio and I became a recorder’.</p>
<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>Sitting in a small tea shop in Auroville near Pondicherry, Shamala and I worked on finding the chapters’ titles when finishing the write-up of the English version, heavily edited from the translation. We both prepared a title separately and we were in agreement with all of them. </p>
<p>The trick coming from Shamala who has a strong background as a journalist is to take a sentence that is in the story.</p>
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<p><strong>Narrative photography</strong></p>
<p>Patricia:</p>
<p>I have learned about Photo Voice: narrative photography. You share what a picture means to you, what experience in your life can be related to the picture, so participants can learn with you how you overcame it or live with it, and it becomes a mutual learning process. Using pictures to get insight on a situation in your life. This gives us something that we can go back to and we know we have a common baggage of knowledge to share and learn from, wisdom as MariJo said.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Storytelling and SALT</span></p>
<p><strong>Helping communities to build a common story</strong></p>
<p>MariJo:</p>
<p>For me, one most relevant question in the context of SALT is: Who is the storyteller? In The Constellation, we have been gathering stories. We are facilitators, passionate about the approach, we easily see the strengths of the community and easily tell their story, but they are not ours. The next step is coming up now: the community should be the storyteller. They need to be the owners of the story by coming up with a common story and sharing it first. How do we come up with a story that the community told itself?</p>
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<p><strong>SALT creates a safe space for storytelling</strong></p>
<p>Rituu:</p>
<p>SALT creates that safe space to share stories which we would not share and that is healing. And it really brings people together. This reminds me of a story. Working on diabetes and hypertension, a team visited a couple. After two SALT visits, the wife started crying. She said: “You have been coming here for many years, but suddenly I feel a connection.” The team had started doing the visit with the SALT mindset. Earlier, they would just tell community members what to do. “For a year, my husband has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, but I did not share, and he did not go for treatment because we will be stigmatised in the community. No one will talk to us. I want to tell you I feel comfortable and safe.” A few weeks after, during dream building, she stands and explains that for a year she has been hiding by fear of stigmatisation. The community really looked after the couple.</p>
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<p><strong>When the community listens to its own story, another depth is reached</strong></p>
<p>Kausar:</p>
<p>I came across a statement that I thought would interest us: “Understanding simply and understanding with depth.” Stories are very significant in SALT and even those who are not committed to SALT take stories. What is understanding a story simply and what is understanding it with depth and what is the depth we seek? </p>
<p>Working in a village, people were complaining about the villagers’ approaches and rectitude. I asked: what do you remember of the times when there was more cohesion, when people were more cooperative? She promptly narrated a story. That evening, we had a village meeting with 150 men and women. We started by saying: “Let’s hear some stories from our elders.” Two men told stories of the time where there was more cohesion within the village. I remember my excitement at seeing people listening to those stories. One youngster said: “I had never heard of this!” They were discovering their own strength through the stories. The storyteller and the listeners were part of the community. We also listened as outsiders. When the community listens, another depth is reached.</p>
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<p><strong>When we hear a story, we start interpreting it</strong></p>
<p>Kausar:</p>
<p>In our work, field workers collect a lot of stories. When we hear a story, we start interpreting it. I was working on illiteracy among women. Youngsters were asked if they wanted to study. They said no. When asked why the girls said: “If we study, we will run away.” How do you interpret that? In our tree-people team, there were three different interpretations. We were in over our head to establish which interpretation is what?</p>
<p>A colleague and I read stories coming from the community. What I was gleaning from it was so different from what he did. He said: “Now we will develop training on this…” but I said: “From where did you get that?”</p>
<p>To make sense of the stories, I personally feel we need to do a little more work.</p>
<p>I love the phrase ‘knowledge asset’ Philip Forth used when I was In Uganda for the knowledge Fair, but how do you arrive at Knowledge Assets from the stories?</p>
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<p><strong>Using stories to find resonance</strong></p>
<p>Celicia:</p>
<p>Two phrases have been useful in my understanding of storytelling.</p>
<p>One is from an amazing Columbian theatre teacher, Hector, said: “Mystery my story.” Every story that is told contains every listener’s stories. It is using stories to find resonance. A powerful tool.</p>
<p>The second is the ‘Inside /Outside’ story. It comes from the Barefoot Guides. I find it very useful when we are having a storyteller who is on facts. That is the outside story. Then we can go back and say: “What is that same story, but told from your inside?” How did you live through that story? What are the motions connected to the story? When we start going inside, the turning point comes to light.</p>
<p>I also struggled with communities telling their stories themselves but then we are building Knowledge Assets from those stories. It feels artificial. It is easier for me when I am not trying to tell the story of the person who told me the story but telling the story of how I had been transformed by the story that I listened to. I did not want to be a usurper of the story.</p>
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<p><strong>Communities telling their common story contributes to ownership, appreciation in the best way and sustainability</strong></p>
<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>What I tried to do in What makes us human is to tell the story of our community, The Constellation. And give tribute, through the stories, to those who contribute to it. In a way, us the listeners were the story. For instance, how our understanding of SALT changed is through specific events told in stories. Nevertheless, I was uncomfortable telling others’ stories. When I asked people whose story was in the book, they said they were proud to contribute to the story of The Constellation.</p>
<p>As Rituu said, it is not only the story of the storyteller but also the story of the listener.</p>
<p>MariJo:</p>
<p>I have been thinking about how the community responds in a sustainable way. We human beings have the ability to respond to some immediate threat. Joining together is something natural. But when the threat diminishes, that is diluted. As Kausar said, the old ones knew things that the young did not. And this brings me to sustainability. In The Constellation and other organisations, we are concentrating too much on the story and not enough on how the story came up. Of course, any of us can tell any story. But I am interested in what the community tells itself. Even if they do not share it—which I think they should—the process of creating a collective story is healing in itself and brings them to sustainability because automatically they are sharing the lessons learned. They create healing from their experience.</p>
<p>Me visiting a community and telling them the beautiful things they do is not the same as them owning it. They need to own their strengths. They need to come up with that themselves because then those strengths will remain with them always. Even if the story is not told elsewhere. The focus on stories is good because they are healing, they can serve as examples, they can be the basis of reflexion… I have been working with stories written centuries ago. We can still learn from them. But for the sake of The Constellation and SALT-CLCP, it is time that communities not only come up with a common dream, but also tell their common story. That contributes to ownership, appreciation in the best way and sustainability because this gives them the real dimension of what they have done together.</p>
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<p><strong>A common story reinforces the feeling of belonging</strong></p>
<p>Kausar:</p>
<p>When we go into a new community (rural urban, somewhat marginalised people, deprived people) we ask them to share when they collectively solved or address a common problem, and invariably stories come out. It provides a lot of material for further discussion. But I never took them as stories the way we are discussing. They are stories of the community and members are nodding and agreeing, showing their solidarity amongst themselves.</p>
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<p><strong>A common story step in the CLCP?</strong></p>
<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>We have been busy here in Grez-Doiceau for years. We have built a common dream but not a common story. Would that not need facilitation? Too often those stories are not being told. Would that be a step in the process? Looking at the cycle, the last step before restarting it: ‘What did we learn?’ could be: ‘What is our collective story?’ A more integrative way of looking at the same. “We have done all those things; what is the story we tell?”</p>
<p>Celicia:</p>
<p>It fits in step one as well because there is the story after the action but also understanding who we are. </p>
<p>Rituu:</p>
<p>I do not see it as a step. I think that it is in the entire cycle. Stories come all the time. It is also a process.</p>
<p>Jean-Louis:</p>
<p>That is the difficulty of representing something that is complex. Action and learning happen throughout the cycle and new energy comes in a linear fashion.</p>
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<p><strong>Closing words</strong></p>
<p>MariJo:</p>
<p>We are storytelling beings. Time exists because of that. But most of the time, we make our individual stories, and the challenge for the Constellation is how do we make it a collective story. Also, we, as facilitators, must be very much aware that processes do not have a beginning and an end. Another thing is that I understand how much stories help us as listeners, but the story is not told for us. No matter how much it touches us.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>After movie conversation at the Premiere of One of Us, World AIDS Daytag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2020-12-15:2028109:BlogPost:1976472020-12-15T08:22:26.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p>The movie is available here:</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/asyouopenyoureyes/oneofusen">https://vimeo.com/asyouopenyoureyes/oneofusen</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Panel:</em></span></p>
<p><a href="https://visualdevelopment.media/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">David and Jessica</a>: the movie makers (Visual…</p>
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<p>The movie is available here:</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/asyouopenyoureyes/oneofusen">https://vimeo.com/asyouopenyoureyes/oneofusen</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Panel:</em></span></p>
<p><a href="https://visualdevelopment.media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David and Jessica</a>: the movie makers (Visual Development)</p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JeanLouisLamboray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jean-Louis</a>: co-founder of The Constellation</p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/UsaDuongsaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Usa</a>: SALT facilitator of the response in Northern Thailand for many years, she also helped David and Jessica prepare the filming.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Participants:</em></span></p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/CyrilPervilhac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cyril</a>: The Constellation member from France, formerly working in UNAIDS and WHO</p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JanSomers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jan</a>: SALT facilitator in Belgium, working with businesses</p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/LeonieHeppener" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leonie</a>: SALT facilitator in Ghana, working for girl’s equality and education</p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MariJo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MariJo</a>: SALT facilitator in Spain, working on HIV, women issues and activism</p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/NkurikiyinkaValens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valens</a>: The Constellation board member from Rwanda</p>
<p>Alexandra and <a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JeanFrancoisBerleur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jef</a></p>
<p>And other viewers from Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Rwanda, Spain and USA.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Facilitation:</em></span></p>
<p><a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Marlou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marlou de Rouw</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">After movie conversation</span></p>
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<p><em>Leonie</em>: A powerful story that will resonate with many people.</p>
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<p><em>Jef</em>: A very touching movie, I feel a connection with the mother-daughter story.</p>
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<p><em>Alexandra</em>: For me the main message is that, first, we have to overcome fear…</p>
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<p><em>David and Jessica</em>: We had a first draft a long time ago, but continued editing the movie… Watching it now, we remembered what happened behind the scene. The feeling of connection we had with Khun Tew. How everyone was very enthusiastic. A very active community. I wish we could go back!</p>
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<p><em>Jean-Louis</em>: Ta Wang Tan is indeed a very special community— a source of inspiration for the Constellation, as we appreciate and transfer what we learned from Ta Wang Tan’s community all over the world.</p>
<p>David and Jessica captured the spirit of the place. The love of a daughter for her mother. The mother transformed by the support of a doctor. From ‘I am nothing, I want to die’ to an active and meaningful life.</p>
<p>Usa, who was accompanying the community in the 90’s is a special facilitator. How many times did we not hear her say: “I did nothing?” but her facilitation is invaluable as she opens the space for Ta Wang Tan’s story to unfold and be told.</p>
<p>Today, in Belgium, our capacity to think, to be in solidarity in our family, with neighbours, with the people who are vulnerable is overlooked. There is fear. There is “psychological shock”, as our Minister of Health lamentably said yesterday. So, what can we do? We can learn from Khun Tew when she says that karma is what it is, but at least we can do our best and try to appreciate strengths here and now. Thank you very much to all.</p>
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<p><em>Usa</em>: It is interesting to see the movie about a year or so after the filming and remembering… Congratulations to the team, you have done a great job. It brings back a lot of good memories being there listening to people, and I feel inspired again, thank you for all the efforts. It is an interesting experience to watch it with people from all around the world. There is great solidarity in doing this. I have not done this before, and it is a great feeling. Thank you Marlou for the initiative.</p>
<p>Ta Wang Tan is indeed special. Ordinary people doing their best; it was nothing extraordinary, but they kept at it. In the process, they felt strengths they did not realise they had. They do the best they can because they love each other, and they care for each other. When interviewing people to prepare the movie, I asked them what their big secret was, many people said: “Love.” If we remember the love that we have for each other, we will be alright.</p>
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<p><em>Jessica</em>: The energy Usa invested in helping us was extraordinary. Even when she left, she called to help us.</p>
<p>We could feel the love. We saw how united the community was and that the memory of the past was so present. They were prepared for the coronavirus epidemic and reacted positively as we had the opportunity to find out with: EXPERIENCE, Episode 11 of the series Behind the Mask: <a href="https://asyouopenyoureyes.com/behindthemask">https://asyouopenyoureyes.com/behindthemask</a>. They have an amazing network.</p>
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<p><em>Cyril</em>: Thank you for the invitation and exchanges. I find this very fruitful and interesting. I also want to thank David and Jessica for this video, its quality and how the movie is helpful to understand what The Constellation is doing.</p>
<p>I remember visiting, with Marlou and Jean-Louis, a hospital in Zimbabwe in the late 90s. Nobody dared to talk about HIV/AIDS. People died in hiding. The kind of intervention that Jean-Louis has been trying to promote over the years was the right thing to do. It is very good to see this experience of this community in Thailand that we have followed through the years.</p>
<p>Having spent five months trying to help out WHO African teams against COVID, we are following what is happening in Europe. What Jean-Louis said about the fear and how we are thinking that we are going to solve this through digital tools only is really something… Learning from the experience of HIV/AIDS and the work you are doing stimulating discussions is I think very important. I haven’t seen it, even listening today to the Secretary of UNAIDS’s words, I did not see the link between what we learned and how we worked with communities on HIV/AIDS and today’s crisis. I think that it is very unfortunate.</p>
<p>I am trying to publish a two-pager about this. In France, we have a Ministry of Solidarities and Health, but where are the solidarities in the work against the coronavirus? This is what we could learn from Thailand and the important words of Jean-Louis. There are so many unbalanced and vulnerable groups and populations in France despite all the studies done and findings. It is refreshing to see that there are people in Thailand that have figured this out.</p>
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<p><em>Jan</em>: A very impressive movie. I want to congratulate everybody who participated and contributed to this powerful document. ‘Living in fear’ and ‘Living in the unknown’ about how transmission is going on, how is infection going on, is so recognisable… What I take from the movie is community-based training, community-based comforting of each other, community-based restoring of hope, community-based rituals; and I think all of that is very relevant today and tomorrow.</p>
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<p><em>Valens</em>: Thank you Usa, David and Jessica for the movie and Marlou for the facilitation. I thought about what is happening today in the Kigali Convention Centre where the Director General of the Rwanda Biomedical Centre and the First Lady of Rwanda were talking about how HIV is still devastating the country: 3000 people being killed by HIV each year in Rwanda. We could not imagine that so many people are still dying of HIV. We can’t compare the stigma people suffered as described at the beginning of the movie to what is now being done during the COVID crisis. Today people are able to cope with HIV/AIDS, they came out of stigma, they came out of bad practices towards those infected. We are dreaming of the times when people will be able to cope with the coronavirus… Not only following the politics. Each person needs to act and contribute for us to be able to get out of this situation.</p>
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<p><em>Marlou</em>: Thanks to Karin, the movie was shown today in several refugee’s camps in Uganda and we also had a session with the Young UN with MariJo and Luc in the panel. They were also very impressed especially about the community aspect. If you have ideas to bring the movie and the inspiration forward, get in touch to discuss and brainstorm together. Other screenings will follow during this and next month.</p>
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<p><em>Usa replies to two questions:</em></p>
<p><em>How was the relationship with treatment in the 20 years gap in the movie?</em></p>
<p>Ta Wang Tan, as in other places in Thailand, have been receiving antiretrovirals so that has helped a lot of people who live with HIV. Ironically, with access to treatment, the number of people in the group living with HIV decreased. In the movie, Khun Tew mentions that, in the beginning, they started with something like 4 persons. The group expanded to 70 at some point, but, with access to treatment, the number went down. Last year, there were about 7 people still in the group. Most people think that there is no need to be joining the group since they can directly access treatment and some living subsidies from the municipality. They feel that there is no need to disclose their status anymore. They just go to the municipality and register their name to get the help they need. That is why HIV is kind of regarded as one of those diseases that people live within the community. The health volunteer team headed by Khun Wipa at that time till now have been spending a lot of efforts and attention on helping people living with other chronic diseases and other conditions including promoting wellbeing.</p>
<p><em>How is Ta Wang Tan taking up the challenge of COVID?</em></p>
<p>So, in a way, they were quite ready to tackle COVID when it came because the health volunteers were there. They have been counselling people in the community. They know everyone in the community. Whenever there is something happening in the community, they visit the family and provide help and the referral. So, they have been doing the same thing with COVID.</p>
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<p><em>MariJo</em>: This is something that has kept me a little bit anxious about: how do we keep our health? I have been HIV+ for 25 years. Treatment was a very important thing for me, as for many people, but a few years ago I started to think that, to a certain level, treatment was a tricky thing. Not to individuals, but for the whole pandemic. I think that the same is happening now with COVID. Having known how communities, in the same way as Tew was explaining in the film, help people living with HIV look at the best of themselves to just care for each other because doctors in hospitals could not really care for us because they had no treatment. That is what scares me a little bit; that we link help all the time to treatment. In many ways, the people living with HIV that survived, they survived, at least in the first period, because they had support. People who did not have support did not survive. Treatment is a very good thing for taking care of our bodies but not of ourselves as communities. Once doctors could provide treatment, most of the movement trying to put more human outlook to the HIV pandemic just shifted. Now when people are diagnosed HIV positive the doctor says: “Don’t worry, here are the pills and you can go.” Most of the people do not have any support about what it means to live with the virus. I am afraid that this is happening with COVID too. We are all looking for the vaccines. It is fantastic that we can have a vaccine. But what about all the reflection that we need to do about how we care for each other and how we care for the environment? How do we live our lives? We miss opportunities to just go deeper into thinking about what makes us care for each other. We need to heal our bodies, but we also need to heal our lives in general.</p>
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<p><em>Jean-Louis</em>: Khun Tawin cares and he knows that communities, not health centers are the centre for care, the centre for love. In English “care” means both “medical care” and “I care for you”. This is very well shown in the movie. His role is not limited to treatment: there were none, but he still works, he is interacting with Tew. The film also very well shows how benevolent the government is in Thailand, at least in Northern Thailand. What authorities could do, they did. They supported people with AIDS and their support groups. When I came to learn from the response in Northern Thailand in the 90s, national AIDS program authorities and community leaders told me that to stimulate a real response by the Thai people the first thing they did was to stop the UN from projecting fear. Because fear was leading to discrimination. The first thing was to get a clear message on how the virus spreads. And when we deal with COVID-19 in Belgium we have a lot to learn on that score.</p>
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<p><em>Jessica</em>: In the 3 hours of interview of Khun Tew, there is a sentence that did not make the cut where she actually says that, especially in the beginning, it was thanks to Khun Tawin’s care, love and attention that she survived, otherwise she would not have made it.</p>
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<p><em>Usa</em>: I would like to respond to MariJo’s point. I am recovering from COVID, so I spent about 2 weeks isolating myself in my bedroom, my son in his. At some point, I did feel like COVID is a lonely disease very much like HIV was, isolating yourself from other people, you are trying hard to protect other people and being alone with yourself gives you a lot of time for reflection. A lot of things crossed my mind during these few days, thinking of HIV, COVID and what we learn from one could help for the other. I was also wondering what would have happened if I caught the disease while living in Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Probably, it would have been a little bit different because maybe some health volunteers, not just my family, would have come to visit me, looking for each other and caring for each other in some way. With COVID, as well, we still need to think about how we live with diseases around us and with people around us, and how to look for strengths wherever we are in order to cope with the challenges that we have. We are not always living in fear, we are always living in hope.</p>
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<p><em>Marlou</em>: This is the seventh and last episode of the As You Open Your Eyes adventure. Thank you, David and Jessica! You have made us travel from Mauritius to Thailand, touching our hearts with stories. We are very grateful for that.</p>
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<p><em>What did the communities bring to you, David and Jessica?</em></p>
<p><em>Jessica:</em> It is a difficult question. Lots of things.</p>
<p><em>David:</em> It is a question very close to why we do what we do. Why we want to make films. And also, why we have been producing these documentaries with you and not with somebody else. It is because, all of us here today, we have sense for looking for the beauty in everything around us, don’t we? The small stories that happen around us that we do not want to be unnoticed. Most of you have been doing this for many years. Maybe some of you write it down, and we have chosen the cameras to collect this and make us feel connected with this beauty around us. We have been able to capture beautiful stories that would have been unnoticed as thousands have happened today and nobody has collected. This is the reason we do what we do. Maybe you have other reasons, but this is the connection that we have with the whole community of The Constellation.</p>
<p>The Constellation also gave us a sense of worldwide connection. We’ve travelled a lot before and we’ve gone on holidays, but when you interview people on their personal experiences and then make something that can touch other people, it kind of feels like a web forming around the world, for me. I met and spoke to so many people about such private issues that it makes me feel connected to the whole world. The Constellation brought us more than the other way.</p>
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<p><em>Marlou</em>: Thank you all for a lovely evening. Keep the love up! Keep the care up!</p>
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<p>More about Ta Wang Tan here: <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/a-way-to-accompany-local-response/home/module-6/reading-for-module-6">https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/a-way-to-accompany-local-response/home/module-6/reading-for-module-6</a></p>
<p>Ta Wang Tan and self-assessment:</p>
<p>Measuring your progress is a job for a team, <a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/measuring-your-progress-is-a-job-for-a-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/measuring-your-progress-is-a-job-for-a-team</a> </p>
<p>The power of the learning cycle, <a href="https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-power-of-the-learning-cycle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-power-of-the-learning-cycle</a> (French in comment)</p>Liza and SALT: a mirror storytag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2020-11-16:2028109:BlogPost:1973042020-11-16T14:24:46.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>To meet Liza is to take the pulse of a story of transformation that begins in her, splashes on her family and impacts her vision of the world and her way of being an actress in it. For the full article, visit the cooperative blog of Belcompetence - Constellation Belgium: <a href="https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/">https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/</a></p>
<p><strong><em>“... from the moment the fogged glasses find a little light, you see things differently…</em></strong></p>
<p>To meet Liza is to take the pulse of a story of transformation that begins in her, splashes on her family and impacts her vision of the world and her way of being an actress in it. For the full article, visit the cooperative blog of Belcompetence - Constellation Belgium: <a href="https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/">https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/</a></p>
<p><strong><em>“... from the moment the fogged glasses find a little light, you see things differently (...) choosing not to be there to judge situations, but rather to create the opportunity to stimulate something else.”</em></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do you remember the first time you heard about SALT? What moved you?</span></p>
<p>You always meet a person before you meet a concept. For me that person was Nathalie, then Jean-Louis. Nath told me: "I will introduce you to Jean-Louis who will make you discover your strengths", that made me laugh (laughs)! And that did not miss...</p>
<p>One day I was walking in the streets of Paris with him... I kept on grumbling (laughs!), he was listening, benevolent. I realized, miraculously, that I was really in an "all-false", that I had to completely change my approach. It echoed the SALT training in Kraainem the previous weekend. And checked out in everyday life: I could choose not to be there to judge situations or make my situation even more negative, but rather create the opportunity to stimulate something else.</p>
<p>I really experienced it as the beginning of a new journey. Of course, sometimes everyday life catches up a little bit, but once the foggy glasses find a little light, you see things differently.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Are there some key moments in your life that you think back on today and tell yourself that the approach has played its part in your way of living them?</span></p>
<p><strong><em>“Some encounters in your life make you never react the same way again. And this encounter (with Saliha) I have clearly Belcompetence to thank for.”</em></strong></p>
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<p>We went to meet the women of the association S.A.V.E. Belgium a few weeks before the attacks. All these mothers were there, they invited us to drink tea in a circle, and we lived a simple sharing of experiences together. They talked about their son/brother/companion who had left... They were sticking together, trying to understand why.</p>
<p>And then came the day of the attacks, I was in Zaventem airport with my whole family and we lived this up close. When we left the airport, Saliha was the first person I thought of.</p>
<p><em><strong>“I always projected myself at her place, saying to myself that it is so close to what I know. I've always seen myself in a mirror.”</strong></em></p>
<p>Like me, she has three sons and a daughter. </p>
<p>That's how our story began. We began to understand each other and to call each other, to tell each other what we were going through. We were both interviewed by the press. What binds us is a complicity also on lighter subjects.</p>
<p><em><strong>“Since the project started... I see only extraordinary things! All these people fighting to create links, to live together, to try to make it work. There is so much to do!”</strong></em></p>
<p>We met again a few months ago, and she was telling me about a European project. I was on a project too, so finally we found ourselves on a common project. It's a great project in partnership with the ARTE TV channel, the idea being to invite people from Molenbeek of all ages to express themselves in front of a camera with an object that is dear to them and allows them to tell their migration journey, their life journey. Since the project started and we are in contact with the different structures or networks that are mobilised in Molenbeek, I see only extraordinary things! All these people fighting to create links, to live together, to try to make it work. There are so many things to do!</p>
<p>Today Saliha and I are accompanying this project hand in hand. It makes sense that we are working together.</p>
<p>Some encounters in your life make you never react the same way again. And this encounter I have clearly Belcompetence to thank for.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Does SALT have an impact on your work or the way you do it?</span></p>
<p><strong><em>"It puts meaning into actions."</em></strong></p>
<p>In the phases of reflection, all actions, the systematic practice of the "after action review" has always been a great support for me to learn. </p>
<p>And then there is also the starting point: the dream, and the fact of projecting oneself in 10 years, 30 years. I realise that this is what I am doing today, even in my work with the European institutions, with the aim of seeing in the long term and working towards this. Starting from a dream, a wish, a project, is so much more promising. </p>
<p>The evaluation tool is also very interesting, I still think about it daily. Yesterday at work we had a meeting on cyber security, and we listed the good practices. But I brought the self-assessment tool to allow everyone to position themselves in relation to these good practices and note their evolution. And everyone was unanimous: it helps make sense of the actions.</p>
<p>I would like to make a SALT visit to the office and then see how with the approach we can work even better together. There are some very interesting personalities here, and there is a reason why we work together. Maybe next year :) ?</p>
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<p>Interview by Celicia Theys</p>
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<p>Translated with the help of <a href="http://www.DeepL.com/Translator">www.DeepL.com/Translator</a> (free version)</p>
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<p>From: BelCompetence, The Constellation Belgium newsletter: <a href="http://mailchi.mp/0de04e0a4c2e/newsletter-belcompetence-automne-2020">http://mailchi.mp/0de04e0a4c2e/newsletter-belcompetence-automne-2020</a></p>
<p>To read the whole interview (in French): <a href="https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/">https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/</a></p>First steps towards autonomy of a group of refugees / Premiers pas vers l’autonomie d’un groupe de réfugiéstag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2019-01-22:2028109:BlogPost:1749832019-01-22T08:34:12.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>Yezeed is an employee at an agency that offers services to refugees. He is a former refugee of Sudan himself. He shares the story of the ups and downs of the project he facilitates: Actiegroep Eigen Huis (pressure group "each of us his own house”).</p>
<p>It started after the end of the SALT training in Hilversum, Yezeed says. With a few facilitators, we made a SALT visit to a group of refugees with a temporary residence permit. They arrived in the Netherlands approx. 2 years ago from…</p>
<p>Yezeed is an employee at an agency that offers services to refugees. He is a former refugee of Sudan himself. He shares the story of the ups and downs of the project he facilitates: Actiegroep Eigen Huis (pressure group "each of us his own house”).</p>
<p>It started after the end of the SALT training in Hilversum, Yezeed says. With a few facilitators, we made a SALT visit to a group of refugees with a temporary residence permit. They arrived in the Netherlands approx. 2 years ago from different countries. The government assigned this group of 16 men rooms in a co-housing facility.</p>
<p>They told us that they would like to work, to study and that their family joined them, but their main problem is that they do not have individual housing. They live in this co-housing facility against their will. The beginning of the conversation was difficult: there was distrust, anger and powerlessness.</p>
<p>We asked them to build their dream for the future. Residents told us, "Drawing is for children, you do not take us seriously.” They did not tell this to us directly, but I heard about it later, and explained to them that we draw to create closer links in the group. Some people do not know how to write and have not had the opportunity to go to school. In addition, there are so many different languages in the group, we sometimes have to translate a sentence into three languages.</p>
<p>At first, it was difficult to keep the attention of the group. After 10 minutes, they were looking at their phone. They wanted me to sort things out for them. We decided it was a good idea to write a letter to the responsible official of the local government, asking for more clarity about their situation. The residents told me, "You know our situation, you can write this letter for us.” After a long conversation, we left. We said, "We want to help you, but you also have to do something. It's not our house, our situation." It was intense.<br/> <br/>It took quite some time, but finally they started making a draft letter. We finalised the letter together, the whole group signed the letter. In December, they met the government official. He paid a visit to the group at their co-housing location and the result is that they will all have their own house in 2018! What made the difference is that WE did not write the letter to the government FOR THEM, and that they took OWNERSHIP and wrote the letter together as a group, by themselves.</p>
<p>Yezeed, January 2018</p>
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<p>Ancien réfugié du Soudan aujourd’hui employé d'une agence qui offre des services aux réfugiés, Yezeed raconte l’histoire faite de hauts et de bas du projet qu'il facilite : Actiegroep Eigen Huis (groupe d'action chacun sa maison).</p>
<p>Cela a commencé après la fin de la formation SALT à Hilversum. Avec quelques facilitateurs, nous avons rendu une visite SALT à un groupe de réfugiés qui ont un permis de séjour temporaire. Ils sont arrivés aux Pays-Bas il y a environ 2 ans de différents pays. Le gouvernement a attribué un logement communautaire à ce groupe de 16 hommes.</p>
<p>Ils nous ont dit qu'ils voudraient travailler, étudier et que leur famille puisse les rejoindre, mais leur problème principal est qu’ils n’ont pas de logement individuel. Ils vivent dans ce logement communautaire contre leur gré. Le début de la conversation a été difficile : il y avait de la méfiance, de la colère et de l'impuissance.</p>
<p>Nous leur avons demandé de construire leur rêve pour l'avenir. Les résidents nous ont répondu : « <em>Dessiner, c’est pour les enfants, vous ne nous prenez pas assez au sérieux.</em> » Ils ne nous l'ont pas dit directement mais j'en ai entendu parler après, et je leur ai expliqué que nous dessinons pour créer des liens plus proches dans le groupe. Certaines personnes ne savent pas écrire et n’ont pas eu l'opportunité d'aller à l'école. De plus, il y a tellement de langues différentes dans le groupe, nous devions parfois traduire une phrase en trois langues.</p>
<p>Au début, il était difficile de garder l’attention du groupe. Après 10 minutes, ils regardaient leur téléphone. Ils voulaient que je règle la situation pour eux. Nous avons décidé d'écrire une lettre à l'échevin pour demander plus de clarté sur leur situation. Ils m'ont dit : « <em>Vous connaissez notre situation, vous pouvez écrire cette lettre pour nous</em>. » Après une longue conversation, nous alors sommes partis. Nous avons dit : « <em>Nous voulons vous aider, mais vous devez aussi faire quelque chose. Ce n'est pas notre maison, notre situation</em>. » C'était intense.</p>
<p>Après un moment, ils ont commencé à écrire des lettres à l'échevin. Quand nous avons entendu cela, nous sommes retournés chez eux et, avec l'ensemble du groupe, nous avons écrit et signé une lettre. En décembre, ils ont rencontré l'échevin et le résultat est qu'ils auront tous leur propre maison en 2018 !</p>
<p>Cela a pris du temps, mais finalement, ils ont commencé à rédiger un brouillon. Nous avons finalisé la lettre ensemble, l'ensemble du groupe a signé la lettre. En décembre, ils ont rencontré un fonctionnaire du gouvernement. Il leur a rendu visite à leur logement et le résultat est qu'ils auront tous leur propre maison en 2018 ! Ce qui a fait la différence, c’est que NOUS n’avons pas écrit la lettre au gouvernement POUR EUX, et qu'ils se sont pris en main et ont écrit la lettre ensemble en tant que groupe, PAR EUX-MÊMES.</p>
<p>Yezeed, janvier 2018</p>"The ownership of raising funds for it should have belonged to the people"tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2018-11-15:2028109:BlogPost:1725272018-11-15T08:02:39.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>I publish this story in the behalf of Kees Lafeber. It is also avaiable here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/457271687691239/posts/1876640895754304/">https://www.facebook.com/457271687691239/posts/1876640895754304/</a></em></p>
<p>“In the last four years, I’ve spent a lot of time in Maluku, Indonesia, where my wife’s parents are from. I’m retired and a photographer, so I spend a lot of time clicking pictures in the community. Through this, I noticed the massive waste problem in the…</p>
<p><em>I publish this story in the behalf of Kees Lafeber. It is also avaiable here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/457271687691239/posts/1876640895754304/">https://www.facebook.com/457271687691239/posts/1876640895754304/</a></em></p>
<p>“In the last four years, I’ve spent a lot of time in Maluku, Indonesia, where my wife’s parents are from. I’m retired and a photographer, so I spend a lot of time clicking pictures in the community. Through this, I noticed the massive waste problem in the area. Waste is a difficult and complex problem, it requires the government to act. But I started wondering, what can I do?</p>
<p>I learnt how to use social media and shared my photos of the waste. The local community took notice, and the Malukan community in the Netherlands, where I’m from, also started talking about it. I made some connections within the local government, but they didn’t do anything about it.</p>
<p>Then, I connected with the local church. They were very concerned about the problem, and they have a great ability to mobilise people. They invited me to make presentations and tell the story of waste to their congregation. I shared with them the laws and the global situation surrounding waste, and most importantly, what is the threat to the local community in Maluku.</p>
<p>They realised how their food chain is affected by waste. Previously, all their waste was organic, so throwing it into the sea made sense, but with plastics, the fish which they love and is their staple food, is affected. The church folks came together and brainstormed what they could do.</p>
<p>The church organised clean-ups and contests for making beautiful items with plastic waste. They also translated the “Green Bible”, created by an American team that looked at what the Bible says about nature and conservation, and preached to their people.</p>
<p>The local universities also got involved. 100 university students made presentations at schools around Maluku to educate younger students.</p>
<p>All this was happening, and I got excited. I was looking for practical solutions and started a crowdfunding site to buy an extruder - a machine that recycles plastic. People in the Netherlands and around the world donated, and we raised enough money to buy the extruder. I thought it was great.</p>
<p>But then, something unexpected happened. The local people started becoming suspicious of me. They thought I was earning money from this, when they saw the big sum on the crowdfunding site. Their local response died down because I was coming in with solutions. I realised my mistake. The decision to buy an extruder, and the ownership of raising funds for it should have belonged to the people, not me.</p>
<p>I learnt that I shouldn’t focus on “practical solutions”, at least not at the cost of alienating the local people. I also learnt the importance of transparency - I should have talked to them about where the money is coming from and where it is going.</p>
<p>Now, when I return, my focus will be on repairing relationships, building understanding and giving the power back to the community.”</p>
<p>Kees, Netherlands</p>
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<p>Depuis le début de 2017, les facilitateurs du Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) et de la Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) soutiennent l'approche SALT/CLCP dans 120 villages de 3 districts de l'Assam : Kamrup Rural, Bongaigaon et Udalguri. La Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) effectuera de mars 2018 à janvier 2019 une évaluation contrôlée randomisée.</p>
<p>En dépit des difficultés, les facilitateurs font un travail formidable : « Tout va bien et…</p>
<p>Depuis le début de 2017, les facilitateurs du Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) et de la Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) soutiennent l'approche SALT/CLCP dans 120 villages de 3 districts de l'Assam : Kamrup Rural, Bongaigaon et Udalguri. La Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) effectuera de mars 2018 à janvier 2019 une évaluation contrôlée randomisée.</p>
<p>En dépit des difficultés, les facilitateurs font un travail formidable : « Tout va bien et l'engagement communautaire augmente jour après jour tout au long du processus SALT. Oui, nous avons un certain nombre de défis à relever, mais nous sommes optimistes », déclare Monjur Hussain de l'équipe du district de Bongaigaon.</p>
<p>Illustrés de nombreuses photos, aperçus des travaux d’Ashok Rau, Babymoni Bordoloi, Jahirul Choudhury, Monjur Hussain, Baharul Islam et Sujit Ray (équipe Bongaigaon), Trailakya Das, Dipak Nath, Ruchira Neog et Akhil Kalita (équipe Kamrup Rural), Jyotika Barua, Mantu Boro, Santu Das et Amrit Rabha (équipe Udalguri) et de villageois d'Assam:</p>
<p><a href="http://mailchi.mp/88c1a84c3095/nouvelles-de-la-constellation-approche-salt-et-comptence-communautaire-pour-la-vie-dcembre-2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Décembre 2017</a>;</p>
<p><a href="http://mailchi.mp/a2205b9d07a2/nouvelles-dassam-janvier-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janvier 2018</a>.</p>
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<p></p>Monthly reports: Engagement for immunisation and other issues, in Assam, Indiatag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2018-02-08:2028109:BlogPost:1684192018-02-08T08:30:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>Since the beginning of 2017, facilitators from the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) and the Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) support the SALT/CLCP approach in 120 villages in 3 districts of Assam: Kamrup Rural, Bongaigaon, and Udalguri. The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) will be evaluating the intervention using a randomized controlled trial from March 2018 to January 2019.</p>
<p>Despite challenges, facilitators are doing tremendous work:…</p>
<p>Since the beginning of 2017, facilitators from the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) and the Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) support the SALT/CLCP approach in 120 villages in 3 districts of Assam: Kamrup Rural, Bongaigaon, and Udalguri. The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) will be evaluating the intervention using a randomized controlled trial from March 2018 to January 2019.</p>
<p>Despite challenges, facilitators are doing tremendous work: “Everything is going well and community engagement is increasing day by day in the SALT process. Yes, we also have challenges, but we are always hopeful”, says Monjur Hussain of the Bongaigaon district team.</p>
<p>Through photographs, monthly overviews of the work of Ashok Rau, Babymoni Bordoloi, Jahirul Choudhury, Monjur Hussain, Baharul Islam and Sujit Ray (Bongaigaon team), Trailakya Das, Dipak Nath, Ruchira Neog and Akhil Kalita (Kamrup Rural team), Jyotika Barua, Mantu Boro, Santu Das and Amrit Rabha (Udalguri team) and villagers of Assam here:</p>
<p><a href="http://mailchi.mp/769edb8b6f4c/news-from-the-constellation-salt-approach-and-community-life-competence-december-2017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2017</a>;</p>
<p><a href="http://mailchi.mp/296d0e970c4b/assam-newsletter-january-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 2018</a>.</p>
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<p>(newsletter co-created with participants of GLF)</p>
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<p>Joram Tibasiimwa, the Chairman National Council for Older Persons</p>
<p>“<i>You (delegates) must <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699610?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699610?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350"></img></a></i> <i>have observed during your SALT visits that older persons have potential to work for…</i></p>
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<p>(newsletter co-created with participants of GLF)</p>
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<p>Joram Tibasiimwa, the Chairman National Council for Older Persons</p>
<p>“<i>You (delegates) must <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699610?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="350" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699610?profile=RESIZE_480x480" width="350" class="align-right"/></a></i><i>have observed during your SALT visits that older persons have potential to work for themselves if triggered to think without necessarily government coming in to provide assistance. Our target is to roll out the CLCP Approach to all parts of the country so that Uganda as a country benefits from the Approach.</i>” </p>
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<p><span style="color: #3366ff;">Our SALT visits to the communities to appreciate, listen, learn, stimulate, share and transfer.</span></p>
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<p><b>A big thanks to our host team –Health Nest Uganda (HENU). Some members in this picture</b>.</p>
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<li>Stories</li>
<li>From the Founding members</li>
<li>Nuggets/Reflections</li>
<li>Comments on the book “What makes us human?”</li>
<li>Fun moments</li>
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<p><b>Izzaty, Singapore</b></p>
<p>Connections doesnt necessary need to be in a full circle. It can happen in the middle, looking at opposite ends, or even coming from different parts of the world.</p>
<p>The commonality of all these different points of connections is being human first. </p>
<p>A smile that can lead to a hand shake. </p>
<p>A handshake to a "how are you?"</p>
<p>And eventually it multiplies to different forms of connections to home, family, policy, anger, strength, sadness and loneliness.</p>
<p>And thats where i learnt, i need to be human first before even thinking of creating change in the community around me.</p>
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<p><b>Blaise kizolele, DRC</b></p>
<p>Mettre ensemble l'espoir et les forces.</p>
<p>L'histoire de Marguerite KIBURE, une femme de 74ans a impressionnée tout le monde, veuve de son état, elle a réussi à faire étudier tous ces enfants. Quand on cherche à savoir son secret, elle se livre à nous avec ces propos : <br/> _ mon mari avait la terre, mais il était toujours absent, et moi, j'ai ne l'avait pas vendu, plutôt que, j'ai la façonner pour mon avenir,grâce à ça, j'ai construit ma maison, mon infirmier pour sauver des vies humaines, surtout les plus pauvres, comme chez moi j'ai l'espace, j'y mets l'élevage, les arbres fruitiers, les tomates, mais tout se fait en ordre. Grâce à l'association, mon entourage apprécie ce que je fait avec amour et moi, j'apprécie aussi le travail des autres, ce qui me donne la force de continuer, je consomme toujours la production locale, sur base de plantes, je me soigne, je contribue à l'association comme tout le monde et j'en suis fière et je me retrouve votre visite m'a chante beaucoup, car vous avez réellement visité entebbe, les autres préfèrent les hôtels et les boîtes, mais vous vous préférez la communauté, cela nous encourage à continuer à visiter aussi d'autres personnes âgées comme nous. Si nous pouvons garder le lien, cela va encore nous encourager.</p>
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<p>Le marché international a laissé beaucoup impression, bien que l' on a pas visité intégralement, mais les résultats sont les mêmes partout. En France, par exemple, la façon de construire le rêve à travers le dessin qui caractérise un être humain a marqué les consommateurs de ce marché. Le dialogue communautaire comme approche de mobilisation communautaire à Madagascar a impressionné le marché. Au Burundi, l'approche a facilité la prise de conscience chez les jeunes dans la mobilisation locale de petit projet. En fin, la DRC a marqué ce festival international par la facilitation de l'approche de la réponse locale pour créer une dynamique communautaire , d'abord au niveau de la structure, nous prenons la charge du bureau, en suite au niveau des communauté s où selon le programme du gouvernement, nous avons, grâce à la approche RECO-SALT/CCV, installé dans quelques Aires Santé de la Zone de Santé kalamu II , les cellules d'animation communautaire multi sectorielles pour mobiliser la communauté vers son développement durable.</p>
<p>Nous avons appris beaucoup de choses aujourd'hui sur le terrain, la communauté dès personnes âgées de kabare qui compte 24 membres toutes vieilles femmes nous ont enseigné sur la notion de la réponse locale, elles ont non seulement la force physique parce qu'elles font d'exercices, mais elles ont encore des pensées plus que jeunes. Leur espoirs se reposent au fait sur leur motivation de faire le cash round à ma compréhension ce une sorte de ristourne comme activité collective pour financier une activité individuelle et malgré leur âges, elles ont toujours confiance qu'elles vont arriver à la fin. Ces personnes âgées trouvent la vie du groupe très important que la maison, car elles y trouvent satisfaction à leur problème de santé, un tensiomètre est disponible chaque réunion pour leur contrôle physique. Voici en peut de mots l'expérience particulière dé cette communaut</p>
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<p><b>Ton frère Vianney, Burundi</b></p>
<p>Je voudrais vous informer que je suis en Ouganda pour le moment, où j’ai eu la chance de participer au Global Learning Festival.Ca sera une occasion d’améliorer mes connaissances en apprenant des autres communautés, en partageant les expériences par les forces qu’ils utilisent pour des réponses locales, leurs réussites et leur art de faire.</p>
<p>Ma sœur, comme tu sais mon job quotidien de facilitation communautaire ,mon expérience se focalise beaucoup sur les jeunes ,mais maintenant, je vais échanger avec la communauté des personnes âgées ,ce qui m’inspirera de faire de même chez nous à mon retour.</p>
<p>Ma sœur, c’est une très grande joie de connaitre l’approche SALT, car j’ai trouvé une grande différence par rapport aux autres car, depuis une dizaine d’années en utilisant les autres, je n’avais jamais pensé que la communauté a sa force, ses compétences pour trouver solutions de leurs défis.</p>
<p>Comme tu t’en souviens, on s’asseyait au bureau et on n’imaginait ce qu’on peut faire sans consulter les bénéficiaires, on planifiait les activités et le budget, puis par après on remarquait toujours qu’il n’y’a pas eu d’impact positif pour ce projet car il n’y ‘avait même pas de suivi.</p>
<p>Ceux qui ont eu des machines a coudre les ont vendus, ceux qui ont bénéficié des formations de paires éducations ont abandonné après le projet……..ce qui est différent au SALT. D’après mon analyse le SALT commence par le moi, la famille, la communauté continue par l’ouverture des horizons pour le bien et le développement de tout le monde. Je vous remercie et j’espère vous revoir le weekend prochain. Merci beaucoup</p>
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<p><b>Community of the Elderly in Kitubulu -</b><b>"Together to succeed .." Sahondra RAKOTOMALALA, Madagascar</b></p>
<p>The meeting with members of the Community of the Elderly in Kitubulu was very relevant, the exchanges helped me a lot to understand their stories and to perceive their motivation.</p>
<p>I have greatly admired the perseverance and passion of the young ABDALLAH Adams, a young volunteer who works with his heart and with love for the well-being of "MAMA"</p>
<p>I was able to feel the competence of Mama REHAMA/ Asamani, leader of the very dynamic group and who is very comfortable by discussing in 4 languages (Luganda, Swahili, English and French)</p>
<p>Mama MAUZU Kadimala, in his corner, without disturbing, but very carrefull</p>
<p>NAKATUDE Harriet, in his youth, is overwhelmed with knowledges and love to share what she knows in agriculture, craft, breeding and cooking to the members without upsetting them. His perseverance and tenacity impressed me.</p>
<p>There is also Mama KALISUMU Shabani and all others who promote the effectiveness of being together. All this small group, very proud of their success to have common dream "Living in happiness, through a good health, better nutrition and healthy lifestyle"</p>
<div><p>A Malagasy proverb says, "<i>Whoever crosses the river together will never be beaten by the crocodile and several guinea fowl walking together will not be attacked by the dog</i>"</p>
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<p><b>From being an analyst to being human- Sohail, Pakistan (Transcribed from what he shared)</b></p>
<p>I was not finishing a questionanaire but connected as a human being and I shared my fears as they shared theirs. We were on the same journey together. I felt that is when came the connection I was struck how connected we were and we felt at the same level. Maybe I asked them mundane questions about their life. I was not doing a review of the community. At this moment I was not an expert but a learner what can I do to learn from them. I asked them what do you do to keep your village clean.</p>
<p>They said that money is not sufficient to clean you have to be committed to clean. You are sitting with us because there are no flies. I made myself more vulnerable to share with them with my personal story and learn from them. There was a shift from me from being the academician to a human being. Being a health researcher I realize that the elderly are missing in our work and would like to take this on when I am back home in Karachi.</p>
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<p><b>Nathalie NIHEZAGIRE, BURUNDI</b></p>
<p>J’aimerais partager ce que j’ai appris pour certains stands de la <b>GLF .En</b> <b>Bel compétence</b>, j’ai beaucoup aimé les outils qu’ils utilisent, ce qui m’a donné l’idée pour la communauté des personnes âgées de mon pays ; Comment je vais procéder pour stimuler ces personnes. Pour la <b>Tanzanie,</b> j’ai appris que dans les communautés, il faut s’entraider du plus petit au plus grand, comment ils font pour leur communauté en aidant les petits enfants a bien vivre, a s’entraider avec leurs parents , leur grand parent. Une autre leçon que j’ai tirée, c’est que malgré les différences gérontologiques ; malgré les différences entre religions, on apprend toujours des belles choses qui nous aident à avancer dans notre communauté où on aimerait toujours partager avec les autres .Et enfin il y a la <b>Singapour</b>, où j’ai appris une créativité et innovation pour un bon changement.</p>
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<p><b>Rafique, India</b></p>
<p>Ramla was a grandmother and had two deaths in the family. When the community visited her as part of condolence to give moral support, it helped her to cope with the double death. She makes a point to attend the community meeting as she learns everything new</p>
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<p><b>Ruth, United Kingdom</b></p>
<p>Week of learning from Ugandan communities and groups from around the world on how they have organised themselves to be mutual support, tackle their own needs and get government on board in a positive way. A chance to hear from some pretty humble politicians about how they switched from top-down to responding to the priorities of communities to tackle major issues like old age health, homelessness, slums and Aids, and the challenges & opportunities faced while trying to do this. Really enriched by the warmth of Ugandans and to meet people passionate about doing this in the UK and Belgium</p>
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<p><b>Meble, Kenya</b></p>
<p>When we talk to each other virtually, and over the years without seeing each other, we develop an elusive perception of each other because of ‘voice, pictures and what we see on social media’. We become friends, and at times judge prematurely based on virtual expectations and maybe assumptions. It is clear that virtual interactions could develop as a necessity especially when the opportunity for a face to face meeting is not possible. This week in Uganda has been an opportunity to complete that circle of virtual connections with people I had never met before. Learning and sharing with each other this week in the GLE has given me an opportunity to ‘see’ others and also appreciate their contribution to the process. </p>
<p>The opportunity to focus ‘on the elderly’ through HENU (Health Nest Uganda) as a running theme in the GLF is a reminder that aging is a challenge for all of us; - or one day or another we will take care of an ‘older’ person, and therefore the need for a generational transfer of care and support for our aging relatives. This is another significant entry point for community capacity development.</p>
<p>It is clear across the week that the experience, application, and understanding of SALT by everyone has evolved as evidenced through the Market place experience; - each country, community or individual is applying it as it seems fit and applicable in their context. Having been one of the original members of this approach, being at the GLF was a glimpse of the intensity in the spread of the SALT (approach, word, idea) across the world. I have had mixed feelings on many levels but what I have appreciated more is the fact that the grounding principle or idea of a SALT methodology is a string and interest of all that participated. The SALT approach is one way to be with others, we become learners and influencers of change around those we interact with, but the challenge is making it a ‘lifestyle’.</p>
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<tr><td width="568" valign="top"><p>We were discussing about name of the Organisation ; We felt that people and communities were stars in implementing local responses and we would be stimulating and connecting them. Hence the name Constellation!</p>
<p>Where does the tag line Together we are striving for life competence come from? Usa!</p>
<p>Now there is more passion because there are more people- Luc</p>
<p>Passion now has increased because while we started we were focusing on tools than on approach. Usa warning me you are not attention to the spirit. Tools do not elicit passion; appreciation being open to strengths of people. Passion is now stronger than before- Jean Louis Lamboray</p>
<p>We are many more people, we are deeper in our approach, it is not something we do to others. It is about us– Marlou,</p>
<p>After the first learning day of GLF, faces I have not seen for years and I felt that we had remained in touch somehow. The connection seems as strong as ever. I am finding openness and eagerness to learn- Usa</p>
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<p>There is more wisdom is between noses than between ears. That is why nose-to-nose picture- Jean Louis</p>
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<tr><td width="568" valign="top"><p>Prof Shittu, Nigeria-We need to create more resilience in the community ; we don’t need a lot of money but find people who can bring SALT in the community</p>
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<p>Jean Louis- Its not so often in history of the constellation. We have in the same room, communities, government, their representatives in the same room. You are giving an example to us. This does not have in my country.</p>
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<p>The essence is love and care which contributes to sustainability- Phil about the community he visited</p>
<p>Appreciation shows up not only in words but also actions. True appreciation is what Margaret said that I appreciate fruits and vegetables of the community and I show it buying it from you and not the super market. This is what I will apply in my life and in my work- Anita Sheehan, Belgium</p>
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<p>Appreciate is not about the words you share with people, it is about acknowledging the skills of others. Margaret is social capital for her group and she wants to be an example for them. She said when you don’t appreciate them you minimize them – Ranga, Singapore</p>
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<p>Appreciation is not just words, but it is also actions- Sylvia, Uganda</p>
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<p>When you show appreciation through practical support you encourage local action- Usa</p>
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<p> I was anxious about interaction of international team with the communities. We appreciate the respect shown by the team, they were sensitive to what question sshould we ask, there was a consideration of people’s feelings - Sylvia</p>
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<p>What is keeping this river alive is strengths of the people- every individual story is giving birth to little strengths that are nurturing more soil of the community also the soil which has to come, the future soil, how older women are preparing the younger generation. Concept of dry soil was present, everyone had a little garden which had to be cultivated. What is the bed of the river? It is the strengths and wisdom which we have discovered in the group What is making the river flow is the dream- Alessandra</p>
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<p>In DRC when we reach older age it is dusk of life. However, we can consider ageing as beginning of new life. This is the learning I take with me- Eric, DRC</p>
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<p>What we learned is that dreams do not have any age limit- Jessica from Italy describing a 100 year old grandfather’s dream to see his 2 year old grandson work one day.</p>
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<p>Sharing dreams with Sulaiti (120 yers old) to Katabi. He dreams of seeing his little daughter (2 years old) with a good job and better living conditions.<br/> You don't have to be young to dream!!! - Loli</p>
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<p>Sohail- The Title of the book is very compelling it resonates with the crisis we have the crisis Friere’s rejuventation how do we resolve the crisis</p>
<p>Describes the journey of the Contelaltion and how communities become agents of change; Provides examples of three continents</p>
<p>They did not say we will provide solution but we trust in capacity of the people</p>
<p>The book is short and short chapters one can use it to have discussions ; some of the people featured in the book are here</p>
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<p>Eric- The book challenges the reader a gentle challenge ; I feel torn when I read it I want to proceed further to read it at the same time I want to pause to reflect on it.</p>
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<p>John- When I read the book I started asking myself in my long life of dealing with several communities was I fair with the communities I was dealing with. Could I have done things differently? Am I actually a human? I found that being human is difficult, one does not know how to react when you come across anything . Think twice</p>
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<p><b>Fun bytes</b></p>
<p><b>Jean Louis Lamboray led the Laughter therapy; Diwali glitter by Stella and Zumba by Anne Marie!</b></p>
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<p><i>GLF newsletter compilation team is thankful to all the contributors including those who provided the beautiful pictures. We were able to include only a few pictures to limit the size of the newsletter</i></p>
<p>Josiane Echeverria <a href="mailto:josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr" target="_blank">josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr</a></p>
<p>Laurie Khorchi <a href="mailto:laurie@communitylifecompetence.org" target="_blank">laurie@communitylifecompetence.org</a></p>
<p>Blaise Kizolele <a href="mailto:blaisekizolele43@gmail.com" target="_blank">blaisekizolele43@gmail.com</a>,</p>
<p>Marie Lamboray <a href="mailto:marie@communitylifecompetence.org" target="_blank">marie@communitylifecompetence.org</a></p>
<p>Rituu B. Nanda <a href="http://rituu@communitylifecompetence.org/" target="_blank">rituu@communitylifecompetence.org</a></p>
<p>Dr E Mohammed Rafique <a href="mailto:emrafi@gmail.com" target="_blank">emrafi@gmail.com</a><b>,</b></p>
<p>Carmen Rivera <a href="mailto:carmen@communitylifecompetence.org" target="_blank">carmen@communitylifecompetence.org</a>,</p>
<p>Prof. Shittu <a href="mailto:shitumbshitu2@gmail.com" target="_blank">shitumbshitu2@gmail.com</a></p>
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<p><b>HENU coordinates</b></p>
<p>Arthur Namara Araali <a href="mailto:arthuraraali@gmail.com">arthuraraali@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Website- <a href="http://healthnestuganda.org/">http://healthnestuganda.org/</a></p>
<p>Facebook page- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HENU-Health-Nest-Uganda-180337688676070/">https://www.facebook.com/HENU-Health-Nest-Uganda-180337688676070/</a></p>
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<p><b>Constellation coordinates</b></p>
<p>Website <a href="http://www.communitylifecompetence.org/" target="_blank">www.communitylifecompetence.org</a></p>
<p>Join our community: <a href="http://aidscompetence.ning.com/" target="_blank">http://aidscompetence.ning.com</a></p>
<p>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheConstellati1" target="_blank">TheConstellati1</a></p>
<p>FB: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/The-Constellation-457271687691239/?fref=ts" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/The-Constellation-457271687691239/?fref=ts</a></p>
<p>GLF Uganda Facebook group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1642624679338042/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1642624679338042/</a></p>
<p>Whatsapp CLCP group- Rafique +918281345391 and Autry +23059254505</p>
<p>Share facilitator- Rituu B Nanda – <a href="mailto:rituu@communitylifecompetence.org">rituu@communitylifecompetence.org</a></p>
<p> </p>Global Learning Festival Newsletter: Threetag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-10-17:2028109:BlogPost:1654322017-10-17T07:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p><span class="font-size-3">16<sup>th</sup> October 2017</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700241?profile=original" target="_self">GLF Newsletter Three document</a> </span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-2">Live…</span></li>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">16<sup>th</sup> October 2017</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700241?profile=original" target="_self">GLF Newsletter Three document</a> </span></p>
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<li><span class="font-size-2">Live Broadcast Global Learning Festival</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Preparation for the SALT visits: see the stories from Mauritius</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Blog of the day: Josianne - Jeudi 12 octobre: ma journée SALT/How is my SALT day?</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Plenary highlights- Constellation, Uganda and Mauritius + Who are we? The balloon game</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Stall owners sales pitch for the market place</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">Final Reflections</span></li>
<li><span class="font-size-2">SALT is magical- Patricia from Belgium</span></li>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">DETAILED NEWS</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-5">Join our Live Broadcast Global Learning Festival here in Entebbe!</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Every day this week at 10 am GMT, 11 am UK and Kinshasa, noon at Brussels time, 15.30 Delhi, 17.00 Bangkok and 21.00 Sidney time. Jean Louis Lamboray will lead it.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-5">Preparation for SALT visits: Stories from Mauritius GLF</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700640?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700640?profile=original" width="320" class="align-left"/></a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Marlou: As we will be hunting beautiful stories with the Ugandan communities - see here what we have been doing in Mauritius last year. For inspiration…And for doing EVEN better this year.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/the-mauritius-learning-festival/home/the-stories" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/the-mauritius-learning-festival/home/the-stories</a> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(english)</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/</a><a href="http://communitylifecompetence.org/" target="_blank">communitylifecompetence.org/</a>festival-d-apprentissage-de-l-ile-maurice/ (french)</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><span class="font-size-5"><span>Blog of the day - </span>Jeudi 12 octobre: ma journée SALT</span></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Josiane Echeverria</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">8H debout.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Aujourd’hui mon programme est chargé mais c’est décidé ce sera une journée SALT.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">C’est quoi en fait SALT? Déjà, commencer la journée en se disant que ce sera une excellente journée.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">C’est être présente, à l’écoute, de moi, des autres, avec bienveillance.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">C’est partager ses expériences et apprendre de l’expérience des autres.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Alors ça se passe comment ma journée SALT?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Je me lève en pensant à tout ce que j’ai à faire dans la journée. Demain je pars pour l’Ouganda donc j’ai toute une liste de choses à faire et je commence à me stresser.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Je sors les poules du poulailler.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Dans la matinée je cours à droite, à gauche. Je rencontre une amie, Marie Thé. Je sens bien qu’elle a besoin de parler mais je n’ai pas vraiment le temps et j’abrège lamentablement.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Ce midi je mange sur le pouce, je reçois la visite de ma voisine. Là, je prends le temps d’un café. Je lui explique comment s’occuper de Coco chat (mon animal préféré).</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">A 15h je passe chercher Maman pour l’emmener faire ses courses de la semaine. Le stress monte car à 92 ans tout prend plus de temps et je pense à tout ce qu’il me reste à faire… Et je la presse un peu, sans brusquerie mais quand même sans respecter vraiment son rythme.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">A 17h je prends le temps du thé avec Maman, petit rituel immuable mais tellement important.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">18h- finaliser les valises.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">19h- coup de téléphone aux enfants.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Soirée plus tranquille.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Bilan de ma journée SALT? Je vous laisse juger… peut mieux faire!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Eh oui! Il y a les intentions et il y a la réalité de tous les jours…l’impatience, l’irritabilité, le tourbillon de la vie quoi.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">C’est pas si facile d’être SALT.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Je pense que c’est une posture dont il faut avoir conscience à chaque instant pour que cela devienne un automatisme, une façon d’être, d’exister, de vivre.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">Thursday 12th October: my SALT day</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Josiane Echeverria</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Up at 8 o’clock.- Today my programme is very loaded, but it’s been decided: this will be a SALT day. So what is SALT after all? For starters, starting the day by deciding that it will be a great day. It is to be present, listening to myself, to others, with kindness and openness. It is to share his experiences and learn from the experience of others. So how is my SALT day?</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">Who are we - Plenary highlights:</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><b>We as older persons have to set a model for others. But if we are left behind how will we do that?</b> GLF will help us to increase our visibility and advance our cause. We will be the biggest beneficiaries of your being here. Uganda came up with national policy for older persons in 2009 but it has not been operational. Last year National Council for older Persons was set up is the result of political environment. Older persons have our own manifesto. We face challenges - The laws of my court allow my children to take me to court if I don’t take care of me. Now they are better off but I can’t sue them if they abandon me. Our leaders are older persons but I wish they could see our visibility. – John Orach, President, National Council for older Persons</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700684?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700684?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>A dream come true for us to be here. Visitors come from 17 countries. The challenge for all of us how to do we learn from this amazing experience and apply it when we go back home. We have an opportunity to learn from older persons. We first has a contact with Health Nest Uganda in 2011, the organization and communities have been using SALT for past 6 years, is this not an example of sustainability what we all talk about? – Philip Forth, Chair, Constellation Global Support Team</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">We had Autry as the coach for social accompaniment of deprived families. SALT changed our way of working and thinking and brought us closer to the community. We realized that it was important to allow them to dream so that they would work towards it. We were fortunate to work with Constellation. After GLF other NGOs got interested in this approach and we joined hands to form Mo Competence. <span>– </span>Annelise, Mauritius</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">The minister has welcomed you to Uganda. We are honoured to host the GLF. We worked towards the dream and today it becomes the reality. It is an opportunity for us to learn, listen and share and we will be delighted if this is transferred to others. Have you taken the time to understand what older people do? We start today. It is a learning and listening day - Patrick, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social improvement</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701403?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701403?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>My dream is that SALT is being practiced all over Africa and in all issues and six countries of Africa are here and we need to sit how can we transfer this practice to other countries. 63% of orphans are taken care by older persons though 70% of people are youth. Older persons cannot get HIV and we do not have issues. Banks do not lend money to older persons. Health Nest was set up in 2007 a big challenge was how to get funds. Unfortunately Francien was not there. We have not had funding but communities continue to respond and volunteers continue to contribute for past 10 years. We have got a chapter on CLCP in Social Gerontology manual brought out by the Government of Uganda. We are connectors and facilitators, they know how to do it. We learn from them. We just have to accompany them. <span>– </span>Arthur Namara, Gerontologist and director Health Nest Uganda<br/></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">This week is for us to do things together. Please feel free to jump in and contribute <span>– </span> Marlou</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">Who are we ? The balloon game</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540704666?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540704666?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a></span></p>
<div><p><span class="font-size-3">Her love helps to move others forward- Izzaty about Agnes</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">I met the most humble person- Autry about Stella</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Kausar is very passionate about her work- Fisher</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">Market place – Loli and Sylvia invited the market stall teams to share</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540705470?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540705470?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-left"/></a>Botswana - We have a saying - If you are a man or gentleman, don’t you will marrying your sister, if you don’t go out of your home ; so please come to our stall!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pakistan - We have some food, attractive posters, how we have indigeneoused SALT in our own context, how we have tried to institutionalized SALT</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Madagascar - is an island different vision of Africa<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540705695?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540705695?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Luc - first time booth for France Competence, we are a young group, souvenir</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">John - Burundi- want to learn about youth and fighting employment if you are expecting help from outside they will only come after the rain has fallen.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Belgium- You need to come us we have 10 years of experience and also training events; Italian, French, German – Europe in one stall</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540705968?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540705968?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-left"/></a>Uganda- hygiene, sanitation, we will have older persons to talk about, items to buy made by older persons.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">DRC - Blaise and Eric -come one and come all- we have a lot of experience, inspired the government to start community dynamics policy and is thought of best- Local response with little or no funding.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540723363?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540723363?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>Rafique - caring for old people in care home ; come rob my knowledge</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540723540?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540723540?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-right"/></a>Patrick- We cannot not imagine that communities are dependent on us. In many countries like government tried to handle HIV but it failed. We are getting results where communities are handling themselves.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Sohail- I have learned how to unlearn, not to judge and not go into analysis</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">I was very inspired by Singapore the creativity of the team, with all the small things we can change the world- Sandra, Madagascar</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Judith, Tanzanian team- We are so excited about the learning festival because we want to learn from other communities and show our experience with them. We hope the festival will bring about insights and provide transfer of knowledge among the participants and community members</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Josiane, France- J'ai appris de l'histoire de Louis-Marie du Burundi qui a passé son enfance dans un orphelinat, qui a subi les ravages de la guerre, a perdu des membres de sa famille et qui a surmonter ses obstacles. Il s'est accroché à la vie, s'est formé à plusieurs reprises et maintenant accompagne les jeunes à trouver leur voie et à construire leur projet de vie. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Ce qui m'impressionne c'est la persévérance de Louis-Marie pour se reconstruire et construire son projet de vie. Cette histoire redonne beaucoup d'espoir et m'encourage personnellement. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">J’aimerais partager ce que j’ai appris pour certains stands de la GLF. En BelCompétence, j’ai beaucoup aimé les outils qu’ils utilisent, ce qui m’a donné l’idée pour la communauté des personnes âgées de mon pays; Comment je vais procéder pour stimuler ces personnes. Pour la Tanzanie, j’ai appris que dans les communautés, il faut s’entraider du plus petit au plus grand, comment ils font pour leur communauté en aidant les petits enfants à bien vivre, à s’entraider avec leurs parents , leur grand parent. Une autre leçon que j’ai tirée, c’est que malgré les différences gérontologiques ; malgré les différences entre religions, on apprend toujours des belles choses qui nous aident à avancer dans notre communauté où on aimerait toujours partager avec les autres. Et enfin il y a la Singapour, où j’ai appris une créativité et innovation pour un bon changement. <span>- </span>Nathalie NIHEZAGIRE, Burundi</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Beatrice- showing how it is working; how the facilitator is not taking lead but communities are finding solutions and looking for local resources. Facilitators are coming alongside and when it is action community take the lead.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">She finds that there is something magical about SALT. The magic part is the wisdom that is rooted in this art of living. For her, wisdom means developing deep knowledge of principles of life. For instance, when you trust people, they can do more, they can do extraordinary things. As it seems that the complete society is in burnout, SALT with its deep respect towards life, people and nature, offers a helpful hand. (Shared by Anu Sieberk)</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Story from festival everyday 16th to 21st Oct by 9 pm every day to the following.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">GLF Newsletter team:<b> </b>Josiane Echeverria <a href="mailto:josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr">josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr</a>, Laurie Khorchi laurie@communitylifecompetence.org, Blaise Kizolele blaisekizolele43@gmail.com, Marie Lamboray <a href="mailto:marie@communitylifecompetence.org">marie@communitylifecompetence.org</a><b>,</b> Rituu B. Nanda <a href="http://rituu@communitylifecompetence.org/" target="_blank">rituu@communitylifecompetence.org</a>, Dr E Mohammed Rafique <a href="mailto:emrafi@gmail.com">emrafi@gmail.com</a><b>,</b> Carmen Rivera <a href="mailto:carmen@communitylifecompetence.org">carmen@communitylifecompetence.org</a>,Prof. Shittu <a href="mailto:shitumbshitu2@gmail.com">shitumbshitu2@gmail.com</a>.</span></p>Global Learning Festival Newsletter: Twotag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-10-16:2028109:BlogPost:1652512017-10-16T14:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p><span class="font-size-3">15th October 2017</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540711584?profile=original" target="_self">GLF Newsletter Two</a> </p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540711584?profile=original" target="_self">GLF Newsletter Two</a> </p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">• Don’t miss - Jean Louis Lamboray will go live on facebook at 1 pm Uganda everyday of the festival</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">• Why are we at the GLF? Pourquoi nous sommes ici?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">• Blog of the day - Eunice, Uganda</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">• The communities we will meet on 17th and 18th Oct 2017</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">• Always been in the DNA: Olivia, SALT facilitator based in Kenya (Video)</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-5">Don’t miss Jean Louis Lamboray will go live on Facebook every day at 1 pm Uganda time.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">"I am here because I am working on becoming a facilitator. I like the approach of using the strengths of individuals in the community to overcome obstacles or issues affecting the community" - Amanda Donaldson, United States.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">"Pour renforcer nos connaissances sur l‘approche SALT en s’inspirant des différentes expériences des autres pays. SALT est une approche structurée basée sur la participation de la communauté et qui est cohérente avec le mandat ‘humanitaire’ du BNGRC (bureau national de gestion des risques et des catastrophes), et la promotion des pratiques familliales essentielles, qui sont la base du developpement tel qu’il est vulgarise par l’ONCD (office nationale de concertation sur la decentralisation)." - Sahondra Rakotomalala ONCD et Melisa Venance, BNGRC Madagascar.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">"To improve our knowledge about the SALT approach, inspired by different experiences from other countries. SALT is a structured approach, based on community participation, which is coherent with the humanitarian mandate of BNGRC (National office of risk and disaster management) and the promotion of essential family practices, which is the basis of development as promoted by the ONCD (national office of consultation on decentralization)." - Sahondra Rakotomalala ONCD Et Melisa Venance, BNGRC Madagascar</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">"I am fascinated to learn the practical ways of applying SALT, to learn how to link and scale up projects and be challenged in views and perspectives" - Ruth Watson</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">"I am here to become a competent facilitator and to share and learn from others. My aim is to get back to Mauritius inspired and armed with tools to better our approach." - Annelise Pigeot, La Pont de Tamerinier, Mauritius</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/adherence-to-hiv-treatment-itsabout-appreciation-and-listening" target="_blank">Adherence to HIV treatment: it's about appreciation and listening, and not teaching</a> </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Shared by Sylvia; source <a href="http://healthnestuganda.org/about-henu/">http://healthnestuganda.org/about-henu/</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Older persons in Bugonga have formed a group that meets every last Thursday of the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">month to socialize. During these meetings they have a cup of tea together, chat, share and keep themselves busy by making charcoal out of waste. They sell these pieces of charcoal to each other at a subsidized cost. This is a very environmentally friendly way to preserve the environment, dispose of waste and maintain good community sanitation, as well as generate income for older persons. These skills are shared and passed on to the younger generations and ensure sustainability and continued income.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Older persons in Kabaale have managed to developed very impressive network where they meet four times a week and have developed a Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO). Here they save funds for their local activities like home visits, supporting friends during ceremonies or loss of relatives as well as the group management. By using CLCP members of Kabaale Older Persons group have managed to use the small space to grow vegetable s to enable them have a health living. To be able to build sustainable sources of income they have also started a catering firm where they provide catering facilities for parties, celebrations, funerals and social events. From this they are able to earn an income to support each other in times of need.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Katabi is another active cell of older persons. This group have formed a group that meets at least twice a week socialize and do some exercises to keep them fit.They have also managed to come up with pig raring projects, craft making and selling and social visits. These projects are viable and can grow providing much needed income but are unable due to lack of financial support.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While working with communities on understanding what kind of environment they wanted to live in, and assessing their health outcomes with regard to Non Communicable Diseases, we recently supported the rejuvenation of this group and they have grown from strength to strength. They have achieved a lot and can benefit from continued strength training on CLCP. They have engaged the interest and involvement of younger generations in the activities of older persons and it is with this effort that they will continue to sustain a healthy and active living environment. This group meets every first Monday of the month to socialize and make arts and crafts which they sell. An example of this activity is as above.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Olivia Munoru is an Australian living in Kenya. She owns two businesses and applies SALT systematically. We often say that SALT is there at the core of every human, it is a natural way of being. As Olivia beautifully describes: "I think SALT was always part of my DNA from the very beginning anyway, before I discovered these letters. [...] Whether you are an employer or a friend or a wife or a mother or a facilitator or a coach, you apply it. I apply it."</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UlYi0oBj8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4UlYi0oBj8</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Story from festival everyday 16th to 21st Oct by 9 pm every day to the following.</span></p>
<p>GLF Newsletter team:<b> </b><span>Josiane Echeverria </span><a href="mailto:josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr">josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr</a><span>, <span>Laurie Khorchi laurie@communitylifecompetence.org, </span>Blaise Kizolele blaisekizolele43@gmail.com, Marie Lamboray </span><a href="mailto:marie@communitylifecompetence.org">marie@communitylifecompetence.org</a><b>,</b><span> <span>Rituu B. Nanda </span><a href="http://rituu@communitylifecompetence.org/" target="_blank">rituu@communitylifecompetence.org</a>, Dr E Mohammed Rafique </span><a href="mailto:emrafi@gmail.com">emrafi@gmail.com</a><b>,</b><span> Carmen Rivera </span><a href="mailto:carmen@communitylifecompetence.org">carmen@communitylifecompetence.org</a><span>,</span> <span>Prof. Shittu </span><a href="mailto:shitumbshitu2@gmail.com">shitumbshitu2@gmail.com</a>.<span><br/></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540698831?profile=original" target="_self">Global Learning Festival: Newsletter One</a> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">“<i>I feel excitement and also proud that GLF is happening in Uganda and look very much forward to reading the shared stories. I have very good and beautiful memories of those 5 years working with fantastic people on the inclusion CLCP in the work we, the Ugandan team did together</i>.”</span> – Francien Scholten, SALT facilitator who had a key role in facilitating CLCP in Uganda with the Entebbe team.</p>
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<li><span>Video: CLCP to promote inclusion of older persons </span></li>
<li>Uganda National dream for ageing with dignity for the year 2044</li>
<li>What is upcoming in Entebbe?</li>
<li>A glimpse from the past: 2012 GLF the Singapore Team</li>
<li>Contribute to the Daily newsletter</li>
<li>Katabi community builds its dream</li>
<li>Reflections on the work in Uganda</li>
<li>Jean-Louis’ book ‘What makes us human?’ launch in 2017</li>
<li>What is upcoming in Entebe?</li>
<li>Welcome to the Global Learning Festival!</li>
<li>A glimpse from the past: 2012 GLF the Singapore Team</li>
<li>Contribute to the Daily newsletter</li>
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<h1>Video: CLCP to promote inclusion of older persons </h1>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Arthur Namara explains the partnership between Health Nest Uganda, WHO’s Department of Aging, and The Constellation. The project piloted the use of the Community Life Competence process (CLCP) to increase participation and inclusion of older persons in health & development issues.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Video courtesy Ricardo Walters</span></p>
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<h1>Uganda National dream for ageing with dignity for the year 2044</h1>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699555?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699555?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-left"/></a><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540699591?profile=original" width="604" class="align-left" style="font-size: 13px;"/>Marlou reminds us : The dream of older people in this community in Entebbe is to be happy older people. They are proud to use their own strengths towards their dream. They have a small vegetable garden, they monitor each others health, they exercise and know they can count on their peers.</span></p>
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<h1>Video: Katabi community builds its dream </h1>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Video by Ricardo Walters: Katabi community, the most mature implementing community, takes its next step in the process: working together to develop a common community Dream.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jajSJV9MJ8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jajSJV9MJ8</a></span></p>
<div><p><span class="font-size-3">Shared by Marlou</span></p>
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<h1>Reflections on the work in Uganda</h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Community life competence for HIV & SRH awareness and counselling among young persons</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Eunice Musubika </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/community-life-competence-works-as-better-approach-to-create-hiv" target="_blank">http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/community-life-competence-works-as-better-approach-to-create-hiv</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">SALT builds cross-generational relationships among older & younger women</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Rituu B. Nanda</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-builds-cross-generational-relationships-in-kabaale-communi-1">http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/salt-builds-cross-generational-relationships-in-kabaale-communi-1</a></span></p>
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<h1>Jean-Louis’ book ‘What makes us human?’ </h1>
<h1><span class="font-size-6"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700015?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700015?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-left"/></a></b></span></h1>
<h1><br/> <a href="https://what-makes-us-human.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13px;"></a></h1>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://what-makes-us-human.com/" target="_blank">https://what-makes-us-human.com/</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">‘The story of a shared dream’ was launched in early 2017 at Entebbe.</span></p>
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<h1>What is upcoming in Entebe? </h1>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Entebbenews/?hc_ref=ARRokbEU5qERL4LahXrPYrISkMdxneFepqyIDDsDe6b5WPXtLN62rRpWPIYlMeiOiSw">Entebbenews</a> (Story by Ainebyona Webber) on facebook 8<sup>th</sup> October 2017</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">NGO To Construct Modern Rehabilitation Centre For Older Persons In Entebbe.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Older persons in Entebbe sub district have a reason to smile after Health Nest Uganda (HENU) an NGO based in Entebbe embarking on the noble cause of constructing a modern Rehabilitation Centre in Buzzi, Kawuku, Katabi Town Council at a cost of Shs600m.Arthur Namara, the HENU Coordinator revealed that the center which will be a two storied building, will be built in phases and will among others serve as a transitional and rehabilitation centre where all older persons in Entebbe sub-district will converge, interact and find solutions to challenges affecting them.The center according to Namara, will also serve as an inter-generational center where the older persons will interact with the young generation so as to share their inter-generational knowledge.</span></p>
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<h1>Welcome to the Global Learning Festival!</h1>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">Paniel Beach Hotel- <i>Ideal place for GLF</i> with a garden to hold cubicles for the market place says <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marlou.derouw?fref=gs&dti=1642624679338042&hc_location=group_dialog">Marlou de Rouw</a>. Photo courtesy of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dolores.rey.754?fref=gs&dti=1642624679338042&hc_location=group_dialog">Dolores Rey</a>.</span></p>
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<h1>A glimpse from the past: 2012 GLF the Singapore Team</h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Watch this interesting video on music and celebration </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZdvujyT5g" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZdvujyT5g</a></p>
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<p><b>GLF Newsletter team: </b>Josiane Echeverria <a href="mailto:josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr">josiane.echeverria@sfr.fr</a>, Marie Lamboray <a href="mailto:marie@communitylifecompetence.org">marie@communitylifecompetence.org</a><b>,</b> Dr E Mohammed Rafique <a href="mailto:emrafi@gmail.com">emrafi@gmail.com</a><b>,</b> Carmen Rivera <a href="mailto:carmen@communitylifecompetence.org">carmen@communitylifecompetence.org</a>, Blaise Sedoh <a href="mailto:blaise.sedoh@gmail.com">blaise.sedoh@gmail.com</a>, Prof. Shittu <a href="mailto:shitumbshitu2@gmail.com">shitumbshitu2@gmail.com</a>, Laurie Khorchi <laurie@communitylifecompetence.org, Rituu B. Nanda <a href="http://rituu@communitylifecompetence.org" target="_blank">rituu@communitylifecompetence.org</a>,</p>
<p></p>Kibaha Learning Festivaltag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-03:2028109:BlogPost:1627712017-07-03T10:52:36.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.</em></p>
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<p>In March 2017, a learning festival was held in Kibaha, and ten communities that had been engaged in the project Afya Kibaha 2025 were invited to come and share their experiences. During the festival, video clips from different communities and their projects were shown. Through these and the testimonies of how the Intergenerational project had helped children, youths and older persons, all were able to…</p>
<p><em>I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.</em></p>
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<p>In March 2017, a learning festival was held in Kibaha, and ten communities that had been engaged in the project Afya Kibaha 2025 were invited to come and share their experiences. During the festival, video clips from different communities and their projects were shown. Through these and the testimonies of how the Intergenerational project had helped children, youths and older persons, all were able to see how the CLCP approach has a positive impact on people’s lives in Kibaha. The CLCP approach requires people to use their own resources and strengths to achieve their goals at both the family and community level, guiding them on how not to be dependent and instead to seek out and apply their own resources. The festival helped people realize that they can do something better for themselves and improve on their live. Below are some of the activities that took place during the festival.</p>
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<p align="center"><i>Active aging group displaying their hand made products at a learning festival</i></p>
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<p align="center"><i>Health checkup at a learning festival</i></p>
<p align="center"><i> </i></p>Uganda/India CLCP Learning Experience in Tanzaniatag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-03:2028109:BlogPost:1626732017-07-03T10:30:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><em>I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.</em></p>
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<p>A community that once doubted that CLCP was ever going to work is now enjoying the benefit of the whole concept of CLC. Community member now plan to expand their project and move together to a next level. This year, Bamba village had the privilege of being visited by guests from Uganda and India.…</p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: left;"><em>I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.</em></p>
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<p>A community that once doubted that CLCP was ever going to work is now enjoying the benefit of the whole concept of CLC. Community member now plan to expand their project and move together to a next level. This year, Bamba village had the privilege of being visited by guests from Uganda and India.</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700117?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700117?profile=original" width="320" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><em>CLCP Community members from Bamba village interacting with visitors: from Uganda, Arthur Namara, and, from India, Dr Prakash Tyagi, who came to learn from them on how they managed to maintain a successful community garden.</em></p>
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<p>In Tanzania, the CLCP programe has managed to train 60 Family Health Mentors in ten different communities in Kibaha. FHMTs have the responsibility to educate and raise awareness of community members about health issues concerning non-communicable diseases. At Mtambani village, children are able to explain what they understand about NCDs and how they share knowledge with other family members. </p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540702730?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540702730?profile=original" width="320" class="align-center"/></a><em>Visitors surprised by the children’s understanding about NCDs and what they do to prevent themselves from such diseases.</em></p>
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<p><b>ACTIVE AGEING GROUP AT KILANGALANGA VILLAGE</b></p>
<p>Kilangalanga village is an extension village that was given a one-day training about the importance of active aging four months ago. Only 15 members in the community were trained. Today, more than seventy-five members joined the group. Members include older persons, youths and children. This was a unique positive experience for this community because not only have they managed to mobilize themselves, but they are also planning to have their group registered, and they have clear guidelines on rules that will govern them.</p>
<p>Activities in active aging group include doing physical exercises, handcrafts, discussing about NCDs amongst themselves</p>
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<p align="center"><em>Intergenerational active aging group at Kilangalanga</em></p>
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<p align="center"><em>Children doing physical exercise </em></p>Building a Healthy Kibahatag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-03:2028109:BlogPost:1626672017-07-03T10:00:05.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 40.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 40.</em></p>
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<p><b>Organisation</b>: HelpAge…</p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 40.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 40.</em></p>
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<p><b>Organisation</b>: HelpAge International</p>
<p><b>Country</b>: Tanzania</p>
<div><p><b>First activities</b> <b>with SALT and CLCP</b>: 2016</p>
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<p>Community Life Competence Process has recently been introduced in Kibaha, Tanzania. Through CLCP, we believe in local responses and that communities can act to reach their dream when they take ownership.</p>
<p>In Tanzania, CLCP has been operating under the assistance of HelpAge International. HelpAge, through working with implementing partners, has been able to design and come up with a programme of “Afya Kibaha 2025”. In this programme, different communities in the Kibaha region have been trained on how best they can plan to improve on their living conditions and live healthy lives by 2025.</p>
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<p><b>WHY IS CLCP THE BEST PRACTICE?</b></p>
<p>CLCP helps communities change for themselves. CLCP is the best practice because it gives chances and opportunities to locals by making them believe in the inner strengths that they have in solving and making things happen for themselves by themselves.</p>
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<p align="center"><i>Community members discussing how to build a Healthy Kibaha</i></p>
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<p>CLCP is the best practice because it sharpens people’s minds and makes them realise who they are and what they can do for themselves without entirely depending on other people. The practice widens people’s perspective on human power and resources that they have.</p>
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<p>Through the SALT process communities have been stimulated in identifying their own problems and finding solutions on how to solve them. With the process, we further appreciate and listen to locals, and this makes them feel good. Facilitators are able to discover and reveal strengths which communities themselves might not realise that they have.</p>
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<p><b>WHAT WAS TRANSFERRED?</b></p>
<p>The CLCP Programme, through its facilitators, has been able to transfer knowledge and experience into different communities. The SALT approach has helped facilitators realise that people in communities are unique and have inner strengths that force them to take action.</p>
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<p><i>Community practices derived from the Dream</i> </p>
<p>Since the induction of the programme, communities have set examples by making sure that they are living healthy. Different families have vegetable gardens around their homes. People make regular visits to health clinics to check on their health.</p>
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<p><b>WHAT HAS KIBAHA LEARNED FROM CLCP?</b></p>
<p>The CLCP approach helps communities to learn and take actions to address the different challenges that it faces. CLCP is an effective approach that guides members in a community to develop their own dream and be part of it.</p>
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<p><i>Page prepared by Judith Bagachwa</i></p>Afya Kibaha 2025tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-07-03:2028109:BlogPost:1626692017-07-03T10:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p>I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.</p>
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<p><b>Afya Kibaha 2025</b></p>
<p>HelpAge International Tanzania, is implementing a health project in Kibaha region (Afya Kibaha 2025). In this project, about ten communities have been trained on the importance of health issues in communities and how best they can improve on their living lifestyles and also come up with innovative ideas on how they can use their available resources and become independent.</p>
<p>In 2016, ten…</p>
<p>I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.</p>
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<p><b>Afya Kibaha 2025</b></p>
<p>HelpAge International Tanzania, is implementing a health project in Kibaha region (Afya Kibaha 2025). In this project, about ten communities have been trained on the importance of health issues in communities and how best they can improve on their living lifestyles and also come up with innovative ideas on how they can use their available resources and become independent.</p>
<p>In 2016, ten communities from Kibaha were trained and introduced to the new concept of Community Life Competence. The CLCP concept was new to so many people and, in the beginning, participants thought it was not going to work. Local people from 10 communities thought they were going to be supported financially so as to implement on the project. Instead participants were asked to sit down and come up with strategies on how each community is going to develop a community health project and have it implemented.</p>
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<p><b>Community Resistance</b></p>
<p>In January 2017, some communities had their projects and strategies written down, but were so slow in taking actions. CLCP trained members were too reluctant in taking steps towards achieving their goals as they had agreed during the training.</p>
<p>In some areas community members refused to participate in the project simply because it looked impossible. It sounded like something unreal to them. This negative reaction lowered down the efforts of the CLCP people. For instance, in one particular community, members agreed not to have a community project, but instead each household should do a project of their own.</p>
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<p><b>SALT Visit</b></p>
<p>My team visited the ten communities in February. We wanted to learn from them how they were proceeding and also see what kind of help could be provided. Community members were guided and stimulated towards taking a lead through their own initiatives. The SALT visit acted as a wake up call to community members because people came to realize that a lot of time had been wasted and nothing had been done.</p>
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<p><b>Community Change</b></p>
<p>Having received visits and encouraged to change their ways, some communities decided to take immediate actions. Towards the end of April 2017, I decided to visit some of the villages and noticed a positive change in some communities. Today, as we speak, communities have adopted the CLCP concept and have brought a positive impact in their own areas.</p>
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<p><b>Bamba Village</b></p>
<p>In this village, members had agreed to start a vegetable garden to help community members eat healthy foods. The CLCP team worked together and walked door to door educating people on the importance of health and also about the community project. The team, through the help of local leaders, managed to secure a 2 acre piece of land which was given to them by one of their community members. Because of this, people became inspired and others joined the group. The team has agreed to contribute a certain amount of money to promote the development of the farm. The community is now happy to see that everything was done by them through their own initiative and their resources.</p>
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<p> <i>Community members in Bamba village working in their vegetable garden</i></p>
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<p><b>Kongowe Village</b></p>
<p>In this village, they agreed to do house to house awareness campaign on NCD (Non communicable diseases) and establish anti alcohol and drug abuse campaign. CLCP members are conducting the activity and are encouraging people to visit health clinics and everyone is involved. In addition, the team has also secured a piece of land and they are growing vegetables.</p>
<p>It took a while for team members to take actions and start a vegetable garden. This is because there was no piece of land available for planting and cultivating vegetables. The team worked so hard in making sure that an area was secured for planting! During the search of land the team leaders discovered other areas that were outside their village and could be used by individuals to do farming activities.</p>
<p>The team leader decided to draft a letter and had it presented to the local government officials informing authorities that it is possible for people not to die because of hunger. He expressed how CLCP approach had enlightened him and how he was now able to see the importance of individuals using their own available resources in communities and become independent.</p>
<p>The team leader further encouraged CLCP people to take individual actions and start looking for areas were they could do farming activities and support their families. This kind of information was taken seriously by CLCP members and, immediately after they had secured a community garden, they started searching for their own area where they could do farming activities. Today, CLCP members in Kongowe have established themselves and are doing individual farming from which they are able to provide food for their families and also sell farming products to earn a living. CLCP trained people are also participating in the community project.</p>
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<p> <i>Vegetable garden in Kongowe</i></p>
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<p>Judith Bagachwa</p>
<p>Jb Geriatric & HIV Center</p>
<p> </p>Would you like to have a presentation document of the Constellation?tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-15:2028109:BlogPost:1618772017-06-15T09:30:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p>Here it is a <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701516?profile=original" target="_self">new document to spread the word about the Constellation</a>. Enjoy!</p>
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<p>Our gratitude to Zen Nguyen for the layout and to Vittoria Dentes, Gafsa’s Health Platform, Laurence Gilliot, Sebastien Gonguet, Sanjay Jaiswal, Olivia Munoru, Roots of Hope, Rituu B. Nanda, Blaise Sedoh, Marie Shadie, Jan Somers, Celicia Theys, Pamela Villamor, and Ricardo Walters for the pictures. </p>
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<p> </p>BelCompetence, Reconnecting to Reinvent a Way of Life that Allows Everyone to Blossomtag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-02:2028109:BlogPost:1615492017-06-02T10:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 14.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p.…</em></p>
<p></p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 14.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 14.</em></p>
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<p><b>Organisation</b>: BelCompetence</p>
<p><b>Country</b>: Belgium</p>
<div><p><b>First activities with SALT and CLCP</b>: 2007</p>
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<p>In 2007, the approach was introduced in Brussels during a training on AIDS. It immediately impressed listeners and they created BelCompetence. The association first focused on AIDS, but quickly widened its horizons increasingly to diverse challenges (asylum seekers, wellness, citizen initiatives...). The principle: a spark is enough to awaken a community. The facilitator supports the community in its path. But the approach also individually concerns us: it modifies and enriches our relationships with our loved ones (family, friends, work, and neighbours).</p>
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<p><b>Connecting people and creating activities in several districts and municipalities of Belgium</b></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2409299946?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="200" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2409299946?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200" class="align-left"/></a>BelCompetence facilitators apply the approach in their neighbourhood and community. Jan Somers has been doing this since 2013 and <u>Vilvoorde</u> city officials want to see the success of the approach in Faubourg inspiring other parts of the city. In the first weekend of December 2016, the City of Vilvoorde offered volunteers training in facilitating the SALT approach.</p>
<p>Jean-Louis Lamboray brought together 45 inhabitants of <u>Grez-Doiceau</u> to develop a common dream, and working groups were formed around the various defined practices. On 14<sup>th</sup> September 2016, a first Agora Café in Grez-Doiceau was held on the theme: "Is it easy to meet in Grez-Doiceau?"</p>
<p>In <u>Molenbeek,</u> a local police officer invited BelCompetence in May 2016 to use SALT with the community to facilitate ownership and community action:</p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="504" valign="top"><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">"After two years of meetings, discussions, struggles, complaints, blames, we did not get much results. You have helped us, in only three short sessions, to find common ground, vision and energy to put into action a plan that we have created together. Thank you! "</span> <i style="background-color: transparent;">Geertrui Oris, police officer in Molenbeek</i></p>
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<p>In their neighbourhood, Liza and Julien Ciarniello recounted the citizens' initiatives in Molenbeek and, since then, all kinds of actions are taking place at <u>Rue du Spectre in Brussels</u>.</p>
<p><b>Training weekends with beautiful aftermath</b></p>
<p>The BelCompetence training weekends are appreciated for inspiring encounters and practical learning of the approach. Participants are invited to keep in touch and meet a few months later to tell how they have used the approach.</p>
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<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">* I work in the agricultural sector, which is experiencing particularly dramatic changes, with falling incomes and many job losses. It is therefore particularly important to propose a stimulating approach that focuses on workers' skills.</span></p>
<p>* After the training, I arrived super excited in my school, eager to get into my action plan. But the negative reactions were not long in coming. The committee of hygiene rose up against the duckling brought into my office, which even the big kids stroked with so much gentleness! Same reaction of rejection to meals taken in common, teachers and students, and ideas of vegetable garden...</p>
<p>I nevertheless met the support of some colleagues with whom I was able to set up an enrolment cell for the beginning of the school year: in-depth interview with children and parents (up to 2 hours) to search for interests and stimulate the students’ motivation.</p>
<p>* I received 6,000 $ from the Embassy of the United States of America in Burundi to accompany 60 destitute women in the rural commune of Buyengero (located in south-west of Burundi) in the realisation of their project of beekeeping. Through the SALT approach, these women will embark on the production and marketing of honey.</p>
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<p>After training in the SALT approach of the international secretariat team, located in Belgium, the approach was gradually transmitted to all levels of the International Association of Charities (AIC). <i>Read p. 41.</i></p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="504" valign="top"><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">"The training booklet of the facilitators, inspired by the SALT method, is sent to all four corners of the world. During field visits, we experiment the SALT method with the local groups, each time with a lot of enthusiasm. In 2016, we worked in Cameroon, the Philippines and France."</span></p>
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<p><b>Examples of other activities:</b></p>
<p><b>A Belgian-Luxemburg economic mission to Guinea with SALT</b></p>
<p>The approach attracted much interest and a decision was taken to institutionalise the SALT visits in the economic missions of the Belgium-Luxembourg-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (CBL-ACP).</p>
<p><b>In collaboration with the InteractivTeaching Center, a workshop titled "Let’s Dream the World: the Jobs of Tomorrow!"</b></p>
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<p><i><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700659?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="200" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540700659?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200" class="align-left"/></a>The spiral illustrates the path. Everyone needs to find purpose in life. There are multiple ways to do that: writing, dancing, crafts, service... These means allow us to choose a life that allows us to express our potential. Everyone is encouraged to open up to the world, to meet others, to share his or her culture and learn from that of others. Then return to share his or</i> <i>her experiences. Society is open to other cultures.</i></p>
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<p><b><br/> Meeting with the Save Belgium Association (Society Against Violent Extremism).</b></p>
<p>BelCompetence members met mothers who transformed their family traumas to offer the Belgian society their experience of facing violent extremism.</p>
<p><b>The initiative #jeparleavecmonvoisin</b></p>
<p>BelCompetence supports the initiative, which was inspired by Liza Dignac, her husband Julien Ciarniello who were with their children in Zaventem during the March 22 bombing, and Jean-Louis Lamboray.</p>
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<p><b>The Workshops of the Letter to the Humanity to dream social cohesion in Brussels</b></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540727036?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="200" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540727036?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="200" class="align-full"/></a>Célicia Theys and Laurie Khorchi guided young people from Brussels to the discovery of living together in harmony.</p>
<p><b>SALT training of the team of the hospital of Kirosthe in Kivu, DRC</b></p>
<p>In January 2016, Anne Brouha introduced the SALT approach to the Kirosthe hospital team.</p>
<p> </p>Dutch Competence: Changing the World May Seem Difficult, but it Begins with One Persontag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-02:2028109:BlogPost:1613882017-06-02T10:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p></p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 36.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 36.</em></p>
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<p><b>Support team</b>: Dutch…</p>
<p></p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 36.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 36.</em></p>
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<p><b>Support team</b>: Dutch Competence</p>
<p><b>Country</b>: Netherlands</p>
<p><b>First activities with SALT and CLCP</b>: 2010</p>
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<p>Joke and Birgitta have been exploring with a Dutch NGO on how to support the <b>sustainable integration of refugees</b> in their local neighbourhoods in the Haarlem region. They were very much inspired to do this after hearing the experiences from the ‘Et Après’ Community of Belgium, a group of former asylum seekers who used SALT since 2008 to take the lead on their own local integration. With the flood of people seeking asylum in the Netherlands, this seems to be a hot topic where SALT can really make a difference.</p>
<p>To transfer the Belgian success story and inspire our Dutch friends, Joke and Louis-Marie, from ‘Et Après’, co-facilitated a <b>special facilitators training</b>: on how to use <b>SALT for self-organisation and integration of immigrants</b>. With the support of Birgitta, the facilitators visited a lot of impressive local initiatives in Amsterdam like <i>Safe Haven</i> where undocumented women can work towards their future, <i>‘We are here’</i> a grassroots initiative for assistance for and by refugees, <i>Buurtzorg</i>, a famous organisation for community health services that has self-directed teams (no managers), <i>Syrian refugees (SYVNL)</i> established in response to the Syrian crisis by a group of young Syrians living in the Netherlands, <i>The World House</i> where people without a staying permit can come for information, personal advice and to develop their own initiatives, and the <i>Neighbourhood Cooperation (OHG)</i>. After a very inspiring weekend, the facilitators all went their own ways to do even more SALT visits together and applied SALT in their different contexts. Here some of their stories…</p>
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<li><b>Facilitator Margriet</b> is exploring how to use SALT in a natural way to support wise people to join and give their wisdom in the region of Friesland.</li>
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<li><b>Facilitators Els and Constance</b> are discovering new ways to create enthusiasm and commitment by integrating the dream and the After Experience Reflection in their work with appreciative inquiry. Constance says it works wonders when you let two teammates dream separately and then co-create practices. She also started to volunteer at one of the organisations we visited.</li>
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<li><b>Facilitator Suse</b> is supporting members of a local platform to realise their dream of creating value together. By applying the CLC Process they now work together with less tension and more results.</li>
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<li><b>Facilitator Birgitta</b> is applying SALT and CLCP on the island of Texel to inspire the board of a grassroots cooperation in (holistic) health care. The board wants to apply SALT in their dream building/action planning process to ensure: (1) a strong vision and solid collaboration within the board, and (2) to explore if the SALT approach can add value for the members of the cooperation. She asked the professionals to start by sharing a personal story about sickness and recovery.</li>
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<li><b>Facilitators</b> <b>Joke and Birgitta</b> will accompany a group of refugees and their new neighbourhood for sustainable integration, while transferring in house at <i>VluchtelingenWerk Nederland</i> (the Dutch refugee council).</li>
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<p>These are just some examples… What is also very encouraging is that the Dutch facilitators are reaching out to connect with other countries. Facilitators Marlou, Rituu and Autry were all received at an <b>international meetup</b> for a round of SALTy stories sharing and, through personal friendships, we are exploring the possibility of organising a learning festival in February with Dutch and Belgium situated facilitators.</p>
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<p>In a world where a lot of things happen over which we seem to have no control, SALT is bringing us together to share inspiring stories of what we CAN do and encourage each other to keep our dreams alive and work towards it. To say it with the words of <b>facilitator Elif</b>: “Changing the world may seem difficult, but it begins with one person.”<i> </i></p>
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<p align="right"><i>Prepared by Joke D’haese, with inputs of Birgitta Schomaker</i></p>Impact Assessment of the SALT Approachtag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-06-02:2028109:BlogPost:1613182017-06-02T09:00:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<div><p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 29.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 29.</em></p>
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<p><b>Country</b>:…</p>
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<div><p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 29.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 29.</em></p>
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<p><b>Country</b>: India</p>
<p><b>Support team</b>: Bobby Zachariah (India), Dolores Rey Novoa (France and Spain), Ian Campbell (United-Kingdom), Marlou de Rouw (France), Rituu B Nanda (India)</p>
<p><b>Time frame:</b> June 2016 - January 2018</p>
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<p>The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) with support from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) will undertake impact evaluation of the Constellation’s SALT approach for community involvement in increasing immunisation coverage in three districts of Assam in India.</p>
<p>The 27th February 2016, the 3-year project kicked off to share and receive inputs from government officials at an event held in Guwahati. Dr Shome, Community Processes Regional Coordinator, stressed the need for providing a space where communities can share and discuss openly. He concluded:</p>
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<p>SALT is already there!</p>
<p>In June 2016, after eight months of discussions, the contract between the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and the Constellation for the Impact assessment of the SALT approach on immunisation uptake is signed!</p>
<p>Rituu B Nanda and Bobby Zachariah, with the support of Mohamed Rafique and the South India AIDS Action Programme (SIAAP), the Constellation Global Support Team and the International Coaching Team, and implementing partners, have one year to implement the SALT approach in 120 villages from 3 districts in Assam, Northeastern state of India: Kamrup rural, Udalguri and Bongaigaon! Another 120 villages will be control villages. </p>
<p>Bobby will be in charge of the Share function, Rituu of Care and Learn and they will jointly Transfer the approach. Marlou De Rouw and Ian Campbell provide distance support and will join them face to face for the first Learning Event planned for October 2016 (Marlou) and for the Participatory Action Research workshop planned early 2017 (Ian). Phil Forth is team mate for Learning and Loli Rey Novoa for financial management. A group is working on a facilitation manual in Hindi. </p>
<p>Bobby and Rituu have already identified the implementing NGO partners. Not all NGOs that Bobby and Rituu visited will be selected as official partners during implementation. But as all visited NGOs got excited about SALT, the team made the commitment to share the approach with them in any case. An enormous effort in the already demanding partnership – but so SALT! </p>
<p>The team ensured Link with local government from the start. Bobby and Rituu were successful in communicating the potential of SALT – as one of the government officers said: </p>
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<p>PHFI has done the baseline, the CLCP will start beginning of 2017, and, after one year, PHFI will do the end line impact evaluation.</p>
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<p><i> </i><i>A PHFI monitor interviewing a mother at Majpara, Assam, India, p</i><i>hoto courtesy of Rituu B Nanda.</i></p>Regional Confidence Project Post-Ebola Epidemictag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-03-31:2028109:BlogPost:1605912017-03-31T09:32:15.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<div><p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 28.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 28.</em></p>
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<p><b>Country</b>: Guinea and…</p>
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<div><p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 28.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 28.</em></p>
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<p><b>Country</b>: Guinea and Liberia</p>
<p><b>Partner</b>: German Institute for Medical Mission (DIFÄM)</p>
<p><b>Support team</b>: Pasteur Edmond Noramou (Guinée), Ibrahim Kamara (Sierra Leone), Joseph Koïvogui (Guinée) and Luc Barrière-Constantin (France)</p>
<p><b>Time frame</b>: October 2016 - August 2017</p>
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<p>In September 2016, following the mediation of our friend Ian Campbell, the Constellation was approached by the German Institute for Medical Mission, DIFÄM, for community support in a project of cross-border reconciliation of communities with their health system. Indeed, the Ebola epidemics in north-western Liberia and in the Guinea Forest Region led to mistrust between communities and the health personnel. Lack of trust also appeared between the medical staff and the health authorities in these areas. The aim of the project is therefore to restore dialogue and trust between these actors and the communities they serve through the development and implementation of Health Charters.</p>
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<p>The Constellation supports 8 communities in Guinea and 8 in Liberia through a SALT / CLCP process, and one output of this project will be these Health Charters. Our facilitators in Guinea (Pastor Edmond Noramou and Joseph Koïvogui) and Liberia (Ibrahim Kamara) began to work on 17 October 2016, less than a month after the first contact with DIFÄM; probably one of the most rapidly set up partnerships...</p>
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<p>The activities will continue in December 2016 with the first training of facilitators facilitated by the person of reference, Luc, and local facilitators. SALT visits and training will continue in 2017. The end of the partnership is planned in July 2017 with a Knowledge Fair bringing together communities and health actors from both sides of the Liberia-Guinea border.</p>
<p> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540720955?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540720955?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><i>Time line of community activities drawn during SALT visits with facilitators in training in Liberia. “What are you proud of?” Photo courtesy of Luc Barrière-Constantin.</i></p>
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<p><i>Prepared by Luc Barrière-Constantin</i></p>Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH) in 2016tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-03-31:2028109:BlogPost:1605882017-03-31T09:22:45.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
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<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 16.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 16.</em></p>
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<p><b>Country</b>:…</p>
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<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 16.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 16.</em></p>
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<p><b>Country</b>: Botswana</p>
<p><b>Partners</b>: UNAIDS and National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA)</p>
<p><b>Support team</b>: Onesmus Mutuku (Kenya) and Ricardo Walters (South Africa); distant support by Marlou de Rouw and Dolores Rey Novoa</p>
<p><b>Time frame</b>: June 2015 - May 2016</p>
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<p>From the 9<sup>th</sup> to the 13<sup>th</sup> May 2016, Onesmus Mutuku and Ricardo Walters made a support visit to the facilitators and communities in Tlokweng and Ramotswa.</p>
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<p><u>The process has consisted of</u>: consultation with community leaders; introduction of CATCH and facilitators to communities; training of facilitators on home visits; home visits and discussions on community strengths; moving towards a common vision; self-assessment and planning of activities, activities and information sharing strengthening within the community. <u>The three top strengths encountered are</u>: knowledge about HIV, openness (welcoming, talking openly) and the will to see change of behaviour. <u>The actions taken by communities are</u>: HIV testing, condom distribution, construction of water tank, youth centre and ward litter picking.</p>
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<p>Facilitators visited 5821 households, i.e. 10,952 individuals, they re-visited 651 households, i.e. 1399 individuals, and facilitated 12 dream building processes in which participated 652 individuals.</p>
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<p>“We felt like this project was our baby, but the Botswana communities reminded us that we were the midwives... CATCH is their child”</p>
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<p>The project has brought hope as there is evidence of impact at different levels (organisational adaptation and policy shift; community responses; indicative health and HIV outcomes).</p>
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<p><i><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701858?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701858?profile=original" width="439" class="align-full"/></a>More than a 1000 people tested for HIV less than a year after CATCH was introduced in the South East district of Botswana</i><i>.</i></p>
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<p>The Kgosis (Botswana’s traditional establishment) broke the yoke of protocols, and joined for SALT visits, participated in home and neighbourhood conversations, for all were working towards a common dream.</p>
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<p>The lessons learnt from the CATCH approach presented by a traditional leader, Paramount Kgosoi Kgolo, at the 21st International AIDS Conference:</p>
<p>•Community competence to assess their local situation and plan for solutions improves health outcomes</p>
<p>•To reach men, youth and others, the household definition needs to be expanded and should reach people in their comfort zones (e.g. Youth at schools and youth clubs, men around bars, specific meeting places)</p>
<p>•Building trust through meaningful conversations based on internal strength (during household, envisioning, assessing and planning stages) reduces stigma and discrimination</p>
<p>•Community leadership through the DiKgosi are key community assets in the HIV response (and beyond)</p>
<p>•Adapting donor-expectations to the pace of the community will pay back</p>
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<p>The Constellation is indebted to UNAIDS for the opportunity to connect with the Botswana landscape and learn from the wealth of experiences within the HIV response, so ably championed by NACA [National AIDS Coordinating Agency] and the Dikgosi in the South East District.</p>Working as a community to ensure clean healthy and sustainable Malukutag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-03-31:2028109:BlogPost:1606622017-03-31T09:09:12.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 32.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 32.</em></p>
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<p><b>Support team:</b> Maluku…</p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 32.</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 32.</em></p>
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<p><b>Support team:</b> Maluku Competence</p>
<p><b>Country</b>: Indonesia</p>
<p><b>First activities with SALT and CLCP</b>: 2016</p>
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<p>Maluku Competence is the local support team of The Constellation in Moluccas (East Indonesia). It was established in July 2016. Marlou de Rouw, Maggie Alfons, Glenn Wattimury and Kees Lafeber joined together to try out the newly developed blended SALT online training. Our team aims to encourage and develop local resources, to improve life conditions. We recognise the importance of local poverty reduction, community empowerment and additional education. Maluku Competence supports and connects communities that are responding to the challenges they are facing. The initiatives we support include 'Green Moluccas', 'Eco Maluku' and 'Rumah Belajar’. Our program for 2017-2020 is based on four pillars:</p>
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<p><b>Vision</b></p>
<p>Various communities including churches, schools, NGOs and governments in Maluku are responding to environmental challenges. They have a dream for healthy and clean villages and they are taking action using the resources at their disposal. They dream about their future and perspectives. “When we are dreaming alone, it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”</p>
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<p><b>Mission</b></p>
<p><b>As a team we aim to be</b>:</p>
<p>.....SALTy enough to be a positive influence for our family</p>
<p>.....for our friends and our community and the country where we live</p>
<p>.....using the tools we learned during the CLCP-course, step by step.</p>
<p>.....an inspiration for more and new facilitators</p>
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<p><b>Each of us:</b></p>
<p>.....is applying SALT to the issues that touch us</p>
<p>.....alone, sometimes together,</p>
<p>.....aims for a Green and Clean Maluku! We take care of our environment!</p>
<p>.....develops Community Based Tourism!</p>
<p>.....takes care of our friends, family and next generations.</p>
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<p><b>As group of friends</b>, we help and support one another to reach collective dreams and our individual dreams. We move together, each in our own context and keep connecting. Our hands and arms have different shapes and colours. We actively learn from one another’s strengths and carefully listen to each other.</p>
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<p><b>Activities</b></p>
<p>Maluku Competence connects and supports the various community initiatives that lead to clean and healthy villages.</p>
<p>For 2017:</p>
<p>• We are a positive influence to people around us</p>
<p>• We make our community grow</p>
<p>• We access knowledge and resources for innovative waste management</p>
<p>• We link to others with experience. We build supportive networks to share and learn</p>
<p>• We listen to our customers/clients/community’s needs (we are “service-minded”)</p>
<p>• We reflect on our progress and adapt our approach</p>
<p>• We facilitate CLCP processes in the community!</p>
<p>• We have facilities to implement Community Based Tourism around Maluku</p>
<p>• We are a trusted party for citizens, businessman and government for these issues</p>
<p>• We need to find funding for training and accompaniment for SALT facilitators of the Learning Gardens. </p>
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<p><i>Prepared by Kees Lafeber</i></p>Promoting Youth Participation in Decision-Makingtag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-03-30:2028109:BlogPost:1605742017-03-30T04:56:07.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 17-18.</em></p>
<p><em>Read the whole story in the <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701041?profile=original" target="_self">report of Roots of Hope</a> </em>(in French), by Eric Uwintwaza </p>
<p><em>En français dans le …</em></p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>, p. 17-18.</em></p>
<p><em>Read the whole story in the <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701041?profile=original" target="_self">report of Roots of Hope</a> </em>(in French), by Eric Uwintwaza </p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 17-18.</em></p>
<p><em>Lire l'histoire complète dans le <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540701041?profile=original" target="_self">rapport de Racines de l'Espoir</a>, par Eric Uwintwaza </em></p>
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<p>Roots of Hope has embarked on a program covering human rights issues as a guideline for responding to the many challenges faced by Burundian youth, in collaboration with Equitas, the International Centre for Human Rights Education.</p>
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<p><b>Sustainable peace</b> is our ideal, pursued this year through several pillars including health, access to employment and intergenerational dialogue centred on the participation of young people.</p>
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<p>In terms of <b>health</b>, Roots of Hope has sent a community of professionals in the fields of health and statistics to transfer their knowledge to young volunteers who in turn have transferred their knowledge to rural youth.</p>
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<p>In terms of <b>access to employment</b>, Roots of Hope supervised the same volunteers during the SALT process that they had the opportunity to facilitate in favour of the "Coffee for local development" program financed by the Fondation Roi Baudouin.</p>
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<p>At the level of <b>intergenerational dialogue</b>, the young people had the opportunity to reflect on their priorities, to discuss collectively on the priorities of their respective localities and to have a dialogue with their elders on priorities deemed consensual.</p>
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<p>All this work was carried out mainly between the SALT team made up of young people based in Bujumbura (initiator of the transfer) and young people from the three municipalities of Bujumbura and two rural communes, Giheta in the Gitega province and Rutegama in the Muramvya province.</p>Transfer of SALT in the International Association of Charities (AIC) Networktag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-03-30:2028109:BlogPost:1605722017-03-30T04:27:52.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>:</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 41.</em></p>
<p>In 2016, the SALT approach continued its way, step by…</p>
<p><em>From the <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">Constellation 2016 Report</a>:</em></p>
<p><em>En français dans le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport 2016</a>, p. 41.</em></p>
<p>In 2016, the SALT approach continued its way, step by step, in our International Association of Charities (AIC) network [founded in 1617 by St. Vincent de Paul, the network is made up of more than 150,000 volunteers in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and USA].</p>
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<p>- In our <b>daily work at the AIC Secretariat</b>, we try to appreciate and value the strengths of the local volunteers with whom we are in contact by e-mail. It is not always easy to adopt this attitude - to detect the positive and the strengths of others - but this way of working is close to our heart.</p>
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<p>- With <b>national AIC associations, during field visits</b>, we experimented the SALT approach with each time a lot of enthusiasm: in Cameroon in January 2016, in the Philippines in April 2016, in Italy in April 2016, in the Dominican Republic in October 2016.</p>
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<p>- In October 2016, we <b>met with the Local Committee for the Promotion of Health in Redon, France,</b> and demonstrated our experience of the SALT process. A nice opportunity to exchange with another type of network in France and interesting contacts with members of the Global Support Team <i>(See p. 22).</i></p>
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<p>- We contacted 2 student interns for Constellation who are doing a study on the practice of SALT: we send them our training booklet which describes our experience and exchanged emails.</p>
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<p>- We are preparing a <b>SALT workshop in Louvain-La-Neuve (LLN), Belgium</b>, for the 'Tour des cafés' 2017. These are debates organised in public and convivial places, an initiative led by the <i>Maison du Développement Durable</i> in LLN, the <i>Centre d'Education et de formation en Alternance</i> and the municipality of Ottignies-LLN. In 2017, the central theme of the meetings will be "the Transition Society Movement". The AIC in collaboration with another ASBL, <i>Habitat et participation</i>, will organise a workshop on the SALT approach linked to Transition on 24 January 2017. An opportunity to link SALT to the Transition Movement and to make the method known to the public of LLN.</p>
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<p align="right"><i>by Agnes Dandois</i></p>
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<p>The most difficult part is to move from expert to facilitator and, rather than give our solutions, seek strengths and convey confidence. This method can help us, but we should start by applying it to our team meetings. I will try to convey to my team this new style of service and the enthusiasm and strength that I have received.</p>
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<p><i>Volunteer of the region of Liguria (AIC Italy) who participated in a regional training day on the theme "Growing together by valuing our strengths."</i></p>
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<p>You shared with us so naturally and simply about the method, showing us that it is possible to use it in many different places, in many different circumstances, including with a board of directors. I also find it very interesting that you have gone so far as to produce, distribute and use your own document.</p>
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<p><i>Member of the Local Committee for the Promotion of Health in Redon, France.</i></p>
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<p><i> </i></p>Harmonisation of the Conduct of Community Dialogues on Essential Family Practices in Madagascartag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-03-10:2028109:BlogPost:1598322017-03-10T10:30:00.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><em>From the Constellation 2016 Report:</em></p>
<p><b>Training on SALT Community Dialogue</b></p>
<p>Since October 2015, the Ministry of Communication and Relations with Institutions (MCRI) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports with the support of UNICEF C4D have begun a process of critical reflection on the harmonisation of approaches to Community Dialogue applied in Madagascar. They contracted the international NGO, The Constellation, to carry out these reflections and develop a harmonised…</p>
<p><em>From the Constellation 2016 Report:</em></p>
<p><b>Training on SALT Community Dialogue</b></p>
<p>Since October 2015, the Ministry of Communication and Relations with Institutions (MCRI) and the Ministry of Youth and Sports with the support of UNICEF C4D have begun a process of critical reflection on the harmonisation of approaches to Community Dialogue applied in Madagascar. They contracted the international NGO, The Constellation, to carry out these reflections and develop a harmonised guide on Community Dialogue. </p>
<p>Following this new orientation, the SALT approach, Search for Common Ground undertook a cascade training of community stakeholders (community agents and other village coaches) in the Atsimo Andrefana, Anosy and Analanjirofo regions.</p>
<p>A first series of activities relating to SALT Community Dialogue was carried out by the regional teams with community agents; the teams ensuring coaching and accompaniment of agents in this new approach. Through the SALT process, community groups were able to collectively develop a common dream for their communities, to see their potential and common strengths, to carry out their own self-assessment and to come up with a community action plan together.</p>
<p>After a year of project implementation, a series of capitalisation and sharing workshops in each intervention region were organised with key partners (MCRI, UNICEF and UNFPA). These workshops focused mainly on the capitalisation of project achievements and good practices in a spirit of exchange and sharing with all the stakeholders in each region of intervention.</p>
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<p><b>Definition of Community Dialogue in Madagascar:</b><b> </b></p>
<p>Community Dialogue was largely developed and exploited during the implementation of the Essential Family Practices (EFPs) initiative. It is a space where members of the community are invited to discuss a problem/concern about the implementation of EFPs, previously identified by a small committee led by community agents. The aim is first of all to accustom the members of a community to interact with each other around the problem and, at the end of the meeting, together they define a community action plan on the practice discussed.</p>
<p>No in-depth evaluation of the relevance of the Community Dialogues was carried out; nevertheless, the representatives of the communities present at the capitalisation workshops all unanimously expressed their necessity and importance in community interactions and reflections. </p>
<p>Other tools used by UNICEF are participatory theatre and radio programs that integrate information and success stories from local communities.</p>
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<p><b>Community Dialogue in Madagascar in figures:</b><b> </b></p>
<p>14 people were trained in the SALT dialogue by The Constellation.</p>
<p>16,842 people attended community meetings, 9 times more than expected.</p>
<p>1840 community meetings by commune and region were held, more than 5 times more than expected.</p>
<p>All the <i>fokontany</i>, that is to say 27 administrative subdivisions, organised Community Dialogues.</p>
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<p><b>Results:</b></p>
<p>UNICEF is seeing <b><i>increased awareness among stakeholders about the relevance and importance of EFPs in households</i></b>. Although many wait-and-see relationships with financial partners strongly persist in the participants' thoughts, these workshops have made it possible to address in a much more in-depth way the roles that local actors play in sustaining and taking charge of questions relating to the rights of children and the transformation of the initiative into actual practice within households.</p>
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<p>Following Community Dialogue sessions in her village, she has always participated in discussions and debates in her group. She realised the mistakes she made toward her first two children that she did not send to school. She made the decision to send her six-year-old daughter to school.</p>
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<p>The workshops also addressed the <u>challenges and constraints</u> encountered during implementation, and led to a joint reflection on <u>areas for improvement</u> to meet these challenges and identify improvements to be implemented.</p>
<p>The Regional Directorates of Communication and the Communication Delegates of targeted districts develop and follow a communication plan for the promotion of the rights of the child adapted to the context of their region.</p>
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<p><b>Good practices identified:</b></p>
<p>- The importance of dialogue spaces created in the context of Community Dialogues, which is a place of expression of the community in relation to the issues addressed.</p>
<p>- Enhanced collaboration with notables and religious leaders who encourage communities to participate more actively in Community Dialogues</p>
<p>- The holding of community dialogue as a space for expression, mutual listening, then reflection and action among the members of the community, leading to a concerted action plan agreed by all.</p>
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<tbody><tr><td width="504" valign="top"><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><strong>What makes me proud is seeing community change.</strong> In Madagascar, during the implementation of the Community Dialogue developed with The Constellation in a SALT state of mind, I've seen changes in the way of working of community actors. Before, they came to educate, but after SALT, they not only facilitate the awareness of the community to take care of their health (the fight against polio campaign), but also encourage them to have a dream they will be able to reach.</span></p>
<p>I am proud that, through SALT, the devaluation of women has begun to disappear here.</p>
<p><i style="background-color: transparent;">Iharisoa Santatra, Madagascar governement, in her</i> <a href="http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RAJAONARIVELOSantatraIharisoa?xg_source=profiles_memberList" style="background-color: transparent;"><i>profile information</i></a> <i style="background-color: transparent;">on our online platform, photo courtesy of Laurie Khorchi.</i></p>
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<p>“The officer participated in the SALT learning workshop. At first, the officer indicated his conviction: with the method he uses, that is to say by using force and through terror, we can indeed make people adopt the essential family practices or vaccinate children. However, after participating in the steps of community dialogue with SALT, he was convinced that SALT is the most appropriate approach. He literally changed his thinking. He said that we can use the SALT method as part of his rural security mission.”</p>
<p><a href="http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/le-salt-aux-forces-de-l-ordre"><i>Blog of Jean Modeste Ranaivoson</i></a><i>, SALT facilitator in Madagascar</i></p>
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<p>I thank Denis Larsen for sharing the <i>Technical Report, UNICEF Madagascar, June 2016.</i></p>Annual Report 2016 of The Constellation / Rapport annuel 2016 de la Constellationtag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2017-02-23:2028109:BlogPost:1594292017-02-23T12:19:05.000ZMarie Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MarieLamboray
<p><i><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540688439?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540688439?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a></i></p>
<p><i>Here is <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">The Constellation 2016 report</a>!</i></p>
<p><b>The theme of the report is: </b><b>“Community to Community Transfer of Local Response”<i>.</i></b></p>
<p><i>“If communities own the process…</i></p>
<p><i><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540688439?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540688439?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750" class="align-full"/></a></i></p>
<p><i>Here is <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/ea75fff5-9b02-47f4-905f-852d18fe36cd/Constellation_Report_2016_English.pdf" target="_blank">The Constellation 2016 report</a>!</i></p>
<p><b>The theme of the report is: </b><b>“Community to Community Transfer of Local Response”<i>.</i></b></p>
<p><i>“If communities own the process and the solution, they are likely to stimulate others to do what they have been doing. NGO facilitators are always limited in number. Community to community transfer is an effective way to reach to much more in a very economical way.”</i></p>
<p align="right">Rituu B Nanda</p>
<p><b>The report also presents the SALT approach activities of Constellation teams and of other organisations</b> in Belgium, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Guinea and Liberia, India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Singapore and Tanzania.</p>
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<p><b>Thank you for sharing your experience with the SALT approach, you demonstrate that Local Response can be a contributor to the solution to global challenges and that SALT is an effective way to stimulate Local Response. </b></p>
<p>Special thanks to Nabaraj Adhikari, Judith Bagachwa, Luc Barrière-Constantin, Agnès Dandois, Vittoria Dentes, Marlou de Rouw, Hervé Guidou, Autry Haynes, Joke D’haese Gerard Ee, Philip Forth, Jean Baby Fulama, Ganga, Sebastien Gonguet, Sanjay Jaiswal, Laurie KhorchiRituu B. Nanda, Thérèse Nyemba, Dolores Rey Novoa, Birgitta Schomaker, Celicia Theys, Eric Uwintwaza, MariJo Vázquez, Glenn Huib Wattimury and Bobby Zachariah. Also Marion Collonge and Susan Koshy for always being there to review the report with kindness and patience.</p>
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<p>Voici le <a href="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/4877a1e8f3470559c21b77fbc/files/4845b324-dc54-4d85-a27c-2715b911f0db/Constellation_Report_2016_French.pdf" target="_blank">rapport de la Constellation pour l’année 2016</a> !</p>
<p><strong>Le thème du rapport est : </strong><b>« Le transfert de la réponse locale de communauté à communauté »</b></p>
<p><i>“</i><i>Si les communautés s’approprient le processus et la solution, elles sont susceptibles de stimuler les autres à faire ce qu’elles ont fait. Les facilitateurs des ONG sont toujours limités en nombre. Le transfert de communauté à communauté est un moyen efficace d'atteindre un grand nombre de façon très économique.”</i></p>
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<p><b>Le rapport présente également les activités avec l’approche SALT des équipes de la Constellation et d'autres organisations</b> en Belgique, au Botswana, en République Démocratique du Congo, en France, en Guinée et au Libéria, en Inde, en Indonésie, à Madagascar, à Maurice, aux Pays-Bas, au Nicaragua, à Singapour et en Tanzanie.</p>
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<p><b>Merci de partager votre expérience avec l'approche SALT, vous démontrez que la réponse locale peut contribuer à relever les défis mondiaux et que SALT est un moyen efficace de stimuler la réponse locale.</b></p>
<p>Spécialement à Nabaraj Adhikari, Judith Bagachwa, Luc Barrière-Constantin, Agnès Dandois, Vittoria Dentes, Marlou de Rouw, Hervé Guidou, Autry Haynes, Joke D’haese Gerard Ee, Philip Forth, Jean Baby Fulama, Ganga, Sebastien Gonguet, Sanjay Jaiswal, Laurie KhorchiRituu B. Nanda, Thérèse Nyemba, Dolores Rey Novoa, Birgitta Schomaker, Celicia Theys, Eric Uwintwaza, MariJo Vázquez, Glenn Huib Wattimury and Bobby Zachariah. Ainsi qu’à Marion Collonge et Susan Koshy qui répondent toujours présent pour la relecture du rapport avec gentillesse et patience.</p>