I attended S.A.L.T training in May 2013 facilitated by April Foster and Onesmus Mutuku.

I was very much motivated with the model and put it to action.

In June 2013 I facilitated SALT training to 30 church workers and 15 community leaders. The impact is so enormous that almost every member is using SALT and reaching out to people with SALT.

salt such a blessing.

We also started SALT Team in Kisumu. CHGN-Kenya,Western chapter.

Wednesday July 17, 2013 will remain indelibly with Autry. We initially planned to meet at 6.30 pm Belgian time. At just about 5.45, I intuitively decided to check my email and saw the email Autry, "We are coming, Liza will be there in a few with an Espa, so if you come outside, she will meet you." Well, if you know me well, I am not usually an anxious person but anxiety got the better of me here. The good thing I had just had a bath in preparation for 6.30 but I am usually always ready and…

When emotional intelligence is missing in a leader, everyone knows it. Ian Thorpe on KM on a dollar a day yesterday discussed the elements of this and the challenges in developing one's self-awareness in aid work, a subject near and dear to this blog as well.

He describes it as, "recognizing and understanding who you are and…

The Mahayahay Sogod, Southern Leyte Sojourn with CLCP

….and so they came……the women….the farmers…..the fisher folks…the students..the out of school youths, the senior citizen (the elderly) and the barangay council….all with question in their eyes….and yet all of them wearing beautiful smiles on their faces!

Their local facilitator told them they are invited to dream….I hear one of them say…..”I dream only when I am asleep! When I wake…

Des vidéos de max 2 min sur des progrès des communautés :

• Accompagnement des femmes enceintes:

• Inclure les réfracteurs dans l’équipe de facilitation:…

In 5 years of experienced we learned a lot of thing, trials and challenges. In 1^st two years we manage to enhance KABATAANG DIYUNA COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH ORGANIZATION by means of experimentation. Learning the behavior of individualism and traditions in order to create centralize attitude towards them. In which we discover the statistics of problems towards youth in where it is rooted.

1^st problems come from home through their parents. Because…

L’église méthodiste compte 300 membres. Avec le soutien des facilitateurs, ils ont construit leur rêve et ils ont fait leur auto-évaluation et plan d’action. Ils ont choisi le lavage des mains comme pratique prioritaire. « Avant, on se lavait tous les mains dans une même assiette. » disait une maman de l’église. « On ne savait pas que les maladies se transmettaient comme…

En novembre 2012, l’église « Piscine de Belsetha » a construit son rêve avec l’aide des facilitateurs. L'église se trouve à Fungurume, au Katanga, ville au centre des activités minières du cuivre. Elle a choisi comme priorité la vaccination complète des enfants et des mamans. Lors de son autoévaluation, elle a choisi les sous-pratiques de reconnaissance et acceptation,…

A Fungurume, dans le quartier Lukeka, se trouve le centre de santé Neema. Parmi les 13 membres du personnel de Neema, 2 personnes sont facilitatrices de l’approche SALT. Elles ont invité l’équipe de facilitation à introduire le processus dans le centre.

Les membres de Neema ont construit leur rêve et ils ont choisi de travailler en priorité sur la pratique du lavage…

Monday evening, Mbuji-Mayi, the provincial capital of Kasai Oriental, a central province in the vast country of DR-Congo. Once the diamond capital of the world, Mbuji-Mayi is now home to one of the most rapidly growing SALT support and facilitation teams in the world.

I sit in a modest hotel room reflecting back on the last 5 days which were absolutely REMARKABLE. Together with a coach from RDCCompetence, Junior Kalonji, we came to support the ‘equipe de soutien’ in a health zone…

Small but interesting change/incident on me because of CLC....

Yesterday, I saw this statement: “What can I do?” on my one friend’s fb.

My prompt and automatic respond there was“ You/yourself only can figure out your STRENGTH in best way dear, no one else can support you here better than you/yourself "

WOW yes, SALT is on my Tongue….otherwise my respond here was: hey what happened? or take care, god bless you or going to call you soon or everything is ok?…i know, u r a…

Youth Talk Through Arts is a showcase done in coordination and partnership with Government agencies, youth networks, private sector and development partners. This program was initiated by Shari Pollard, an Entertainment Specialist, youth leader and prominent dancer in Barbados. UNDP in the Caribbean region provided full support to the initiative to ensure its success.

Youth Talk Through Arts serves to celebrate youth talent and support young artists and entrepreneurs to showcase their…

MANOKWARI, Indonesia 24 June 2013 – UNICEF Indonesia welcomes the decision by the provincial Government of West Papua to strategically invest in its young population by developing a comprehensive youth policy – the first of its kind in Indonesia. 

“West Papua is making great strides towards programming for young people, thus recognizing that adolescence as a critical time of opportunity that must not be missed,” said Angela Kearney, UNICEF Representative in Indonesia.…

June 23,2013

at Chitwan Sakriya Samuha (CSS)

Bharatpur-10,Chitwan,Nepal…

For some time now, Belcompetence has been engaged in facilitating the Faubourg community building. A limited but growing number of habitants expressed concerns about issues such as (perceived) safety in their neigbourhood, lack of spontaneous contacts among new habitants (from very diverse origines) and those that were born and raised there. Slowly but surely the group of habitants that have expressed both concerns and desires are in the process of changing the teneur of their expressions…

Community Life Competency Process (CLCP) training’s first and second face to face sessions were conducted on the 25 & 26 of May 2013 and 14 & 15 of June 2013 in UN Conference hall Kathmandu Nepal. There were 34 participants. These participant were divided in 4 groups in first face to face session. They were assigned to facilitate SALT in communities before coming to second face o face session. Here is their learning which they shared on 14 June while Ritu ask them: What did you…

Here in our country we believe in the famous quote “YOUTH ARE THE FUTURE OF OUR NATION” by our national Hero Jose Rizal. By all means of intellect and curiosity, we stop and wonder why was that quote have been written from a century ago where there is nothing or no ore who manage to make that quote comes to life. No institutions, no government or no one takes action to make the Youth a Future of our Nation. Youth is really the future of our nation whether we like it or not, they are the next…

Enhancing Mobile Population’s Access to HIV/AIDS, Services, Information and Support (EMPHASIS) is a regional project implemented by CARE in three countries Bangladesh, India and Nepal to reduce HIV vulnerability among cross border migrants from Bangladesh and Nepal to India.

Care India invited India Competence to develop coherent communities…

At Society for Women Awareness Nepal(SWAN)

Guarko Chowk,Imadole,Lalitpur,Nepal

This visit was quite better comparing to the past two visits.I think after this visit i'm little bit more clear about the meaning of "SALT".

As Rituu said,it takes a lot of experience to…