Colleagues,

as I had mentioned to most if not all of you, I will be integrating the SALT process into my program here at Youth Challenge Guyana, What this means is that I will be taking all my volunteers arriving to participate in our field projects through the process. I have groups in arriving in country 5-6 times per year. I have two groups for the remainder of the year One next Month the other in December.

November the 5th will be the day set aside for the…

‘As a child I am a mother of two children and as a sex worker I am sister of thousands of sex workers’. My journey from a sex worker to Traing faculty Afsari Begum…

My organisation's tag line says "the experience that lasts a lifetime" Even as i sit an reflect on the AC process and the process involved. It makes me realise that this will add to my experiences that will last me a lifetime.

The SALT process will be fully integrated into my work, I truly believe that it will only make things better for the communities we work in. It is a process i believe that gives back to the community, it helps the work with the strengths they have. Too long has…

The status of female sex workers in Kerala was very pathetic and wretched before starting the HIV/AIDS interventions among them by Kerala State AIDS Control Society under National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) during the late 1990’s. They were victims of extreme human right violations due to…

NARI SAKSHAM is a CBO promoted by CARE India in SAKSHAM (Strengthening Awareness, Knowledge and Skill for HIV/AIDS Management) Project. The project served as the implementation and learning site for a Community Led Structural Intervention in Andhra Pradesh in India. This project funded by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation was implemented during 2004 to 2009 in Rajamandry town with over 1800 sex workers. The project was successful in reducing the HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities and enhanced rights…

1. INTRODUCTION OF THE HIVOS PARTNERSHIP PLATFORM

EANNASO staff members were taken through a general introduction of the HVOS partnership

Platform. The history and purpose of the platform was provided through a write

up and a discussion. Objectives…

The excerpt below of the book Pratiques émancipatrices. Actualités de Paolo Freire is a reflexion on the meaning of the word 'freedom'.

For an education to be truly liberating, we must ask ourselves: what does "freedom" mean?…

Dans le cercle de Koutiala communément appelé la capitale de l’or blanc (le coton), l’ONG GARDEM dans la facilitation de la réponse locale commence à passer à la vitesse supérieure avec des résultats que nous voulons absolument partager avec vous. En effet 7 facilitateurs de cette ONG organisés en 3 équipes de facilitation travaillent cette année dans 16…

“Maybe it is best to have no expectations”, I was thinking by myself. My first SALT visit in a prison. And not just a prison. A prison in Georgetown, Guyana and on the agenda was facilitation of self-assessment on AIDS Competence. I have to admit that I was excited.…

En 2004 Ricky et ses musiciens handicapés de

Kinshasa font un rêve. Un jour, ils seront connus dans le monde entier, autant

que Werrason et Papa Wemba ! Ils le

poursuivent, envers et contre tout. Et lorsqu’un incendie les prive de leurs maigres

possessions et de leur…

This is the story of Ms. Suma, a 40 year old woman, who faced a lot of struggle in the street as a sex worker. Suma is a good looking woman who belongs to Naduvil Village, a distant rural village of Kannur District in Kerala. She hails from a lower middle class family and her parents…