Community Life Competence Workshop with Hinterland Students

I facilitated a three days’ workshop on Rights of the Child using the CLC process with some 40 students in a hinterland village and I learn so many things from these students.

These young Adults knew what they wanted to address, in our first exercise we did hopes and concerns and I never saw so many similar concerns all at once and when I saw it, I felt their passion towards these concerns.

Here is a bit of what…

Good Evening to All

Greetings From SHIKSHA JYOTI

Introduction of Shiksha Jyoti

Shiksha Jyoti is an independent, professionally managed institution extending effective development facilities in the field of Sexual Health, Education with extra focused to depressed segments and the social welfare sector in India.

Shiksha Jyoti was established in 2009 with the coming together of like-minded…

आज दिनांक 21/12/12 को आशियाना के अंतर्गत एक मनोरंजन एवं बैठक मीटिंग का आयोजन किया गया ।इस मीटिंग में सभी कम्युनिटी के लोगो ने मिलजुल कर भाग लिया ,इस मीटिंग का नेतत्र्व जतिन जी ने किया ।जतिन जी ने सभी को बताया कि पहले हम सभी ढोलक पर डांस करेंगे इसके बाद हम सभी एच आई वी / एड्स के बारे में मिलकर आपस में बातचीत करेंगे । फिर सभी ने ढोलक पर मिलकर डांस किया और खूब मजा किया । इसके बाद सभी लोगो ने मिलकर एच आई वी और एड्स पर आपस में चर्चा की जिससे की यह निकल कर सामने आया की सभी में से कुछ लोगो को अभी…

Après avoir travailler 5 jours avec les 5 Confessions Religieuses du Kasai Oriental/Mbuji Mayi, ces dernières disent à haute voix: Le salt a brisé nos barrières religieuses et aujourd'hui nous pouvons nous appeler véritablement Enfant de Dieu.

"Salt ne voit pas les couleurs"

"Salt ne voit pas les tribus"

"Salt ne voit pas les religions".

Sa seule et unique préoccupation: amener la communauté à trouver solutions aux problèmes qui la dérangent.

The Rights of the Child and Indigenous Peoples’ Commissions sought to support the strengthening effort of the New Opportunity Core responsible for the rehabilitation of delinquent young people that came into conflict with the law and were sent to the facility for a period of one to three years. Over the past three years and especially over the past six months there were serious challenges being confronted by staff because of the students’ unbecoming behaviour within the institute.

The…

Global Learning Festival (GLF) was something I heard of during the World AI Conference in Ghent, Belgium in April 2012. It was through one of the very active delegates, Jan Somers by name, who was seen all over the place, clicking ace pictures of the activities and the delegates in the Conference. When I was introduced to him as a delegate from Chennai, India, Jan promptly said he was visiting Chennai later in the year for GLF. I thought little of it then as learning and festival were at…

The 10th National Dialogue (Umushyikirano) is taking place today from 13 to 14 December 2012 at the Parliament.

This year's theme is "Agaciro: Aiming for self reliance." Umushyikirano will be chaired by His Excellency President Paul Kagame and will bring together close to 1000 participants including representatives of local government and grass…

One may either call it HIV, AIDS both or whatsoever as the degree of knowledge differs, for us the distinction does not matter. The undeniable fact is that it is there within us and continuously spreading. “AIDS remains one of the world’s most serious health challenges”(UNAIDS, 2012: 8), for as UNIADS (2012) in the “Report on the Global AIDS epidemic | 2012” indicates that 1,700,000 people died of AIDS only in 2011, about 2,500,000 were newly infected and 34,000,000 are…

Many Government Organizations (GO), Non Government Organizations (NGO) and international Aid Agencies work in many countries for social and economical development. There are various types of projects and programs implemented for developing the socio-economic conditions of those countries, especially in developing and under developed countries. Since hundreds of years, the development agencies have been working in many countries only for doing various development issues. Thousands of…

Grâce à la détermination d’un seul homme les communautés de Kissidougou sont en train de faire reculer le paludisme, le sida et les diarrhées en Guinée. En effet, avec l’appui de son organisation, Idrissa Souaré, Chef du Bureau de Zone Est Kankan - Unicef, facilite, et ce depuis 2005, le développement de la Compétence pour la Vie par les communautés de son rayon d’action. Cette approche, promue par la Constellation, est basée sur l’appréciation des forces locales…

August 2011- Chiangmai, Thailand...Constellation’s Global Support team meeting is on, mid morning...with Jean Louis, Marlou, Gaston, Phil, Laurence We have faced the economic recession, are a bit low. The atmosphere gloom and frustration as we had to take the tough decision of shutting down our Chiangmai head office and move it to Belgium.

As we discuss the coming year I spring an idea... I wish to meet all the Constellation friends face-to-face... how much energy it will give…

I came across this quote today. It sums up quite nicely my philosophy on posting blogs:

"Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you.  If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend."            - …

“ Gaya ng walis tingting….kung nag-iisa lang…walang tibay at hindi makakapaglinis….pero kung pinagsama-sama…mas matibay… mas may gamit!”      (Just like a broom stick….alone…there is no use , it’s weak….but put several together and bind it…it becomes stronger at it becomes useful!), that’s how a peasant leader’s wife described themselves and what they are doing in their search for justice and food security.  

The SALT visit that I joined together with the other…

Heureux d'être appuiyé par la Fondation Roi Beaudoin pour participer au GLF à Chennai, j'ai par la suite eu des problèmes de santé en famille. A cause de cela, je me suis retrouvé entrain d'échafauder des raisons qui justifieraient mon absence à ce rendez-vous: entre autres que j'avais déjà facilité le PCCV et que donc j'avais eu des occasions de réflechir à ce que je réalise en tant qu'être humain, de poser des questions stratégiques pour stimuler les communautés et enfin, je n'ai plus de…

As a Constellation coach, I have facilitated quite a number of Knowledge Fairs.  I have recorded dozens of stories on video to develop Knowledge Assets and spread the valuable experience of communities around the world. But today was special. Today I actually couldn’t keep my eyes dry during the video recording. The story was too touching. It went straight to my heart. Normally I urge people to stick within 3 minutes, but even though this story went on for 7 minutes, I remained silent. I…

And now all those stories and inspiration are flying back with us. To our homes, where we live, to our workplaces…

On the last morning of the Global Learning Festival, we all considered the…

Nous revenons d'un atelier de formation de près de 50 leaders religieux, en plein centre de la République de Guinée, à Kissidougou; l'expérience est particulièrement instructive...

C'est l'histoire d'un Pasteur

Dont la nièce est mariée, il y a quelques années, en Côte d'Ivoire. Devenue veuve, elle décide rentrer au pays, en Guinée.

Alors se décide-t-elle à s'engager dans une relation avec un "togolais", pour reprendre les expressions du Pasteur. Quel drame! Elle y…

Day four at the Global Learning Festival bore testimony to the transformative and catalytic power of stories. Sanghamitra, who facilitated the opening session, asked us all to reflect on the day before and share one extraordinary insight that we might have found. Prabakar expressed his generous appreciation for the stall that Eric Ngabala and team (from Kinshasa) ran the previous day. He commented on how well-thought out the presentation was, and how Eric was able to switch seamlessly…

Voluntary work Activities of Ashiana Foundation

1. Mobile Exhibition
2. Vocational Training for MSM community
3. Health Camps and aids Awareness Programmers
4. Family Counseling Programmers
5. DIC

Ashiana Foundation All this work is done with the cooperation of all. Every month we have a meeting with all the AF members on the activities of the month in which we are discussing And based on that we give all DONATIONS for…