“My daughter is quite rebellious. Maybe you can speak to her.”  This mother then called out to her daughter who was in the  room to meet us. We were in the neighbourhood  persuading residents to  help out with programmes for children who lived in the area.  Upon gaining an understanding of Beyond’s work, she thought that her daughter could benefit from our programmes too. “Aiyah mom, I know these Beyond people!” the 18 year old blurted when  she came out of the room. We could not recognise…

Colleen McEwan…

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Here are some activities that we had done for couple months ago. When I heard SALT for the first time from my lecture Mrs. Wiwin, I was interested to bring it to my school, so asked her to come to my school. Then after we had permission from our principal, we held it.

Our School name is Babussalam Boarding School. We held it, for the senior high and also the junior high students.  We shared about their knowledge in Teenagers Health. Many students didn't know…

I was so excited to see what today would turn out to be. After having so much fun yesterday i was anxious to experience learning in a fun-filled, laughter filled environment. I admit, i feel the love in the room with all the participants being fully involved in the process.

I liked that most participants turned up on time. I could feel the enthusiams in the room, after yesterday people wanted to have more. This is a good thing, we should always have people wanting more, not because we…

Today saw the beginning of the another Community Life Competence (CLC) training in Guyana. it brought back memories of my training in February of last year. I remember trying to have an open mind yet curious to know what the training was all about. From listening to participants expectation I could have sensed that a lot of them felt the same way i would have felt on the first day of my training. 

As participants came in today, signed registration sheet, collected their training…

this program helped us ...All my students try to make up their mind and concern about their health.. SALT approaches is the gate for them to avoid their anxiety social disorder

a bundle of thanks for Rituu,,, Mrs.Wiwin Winarni and my best fellow Venty Susanty... and all of u.

SALT Approaches applies continually .Rajawali's Junior High School makes SALT into two terms and tied each other.

we do SALT from the simple thing such kind of health social life…

In honor of this week's Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting, I'm reposting this from early October last year. The issues remain the same; the fundraising resources for local organizations still needed.

“Is a trickle of that money ever going to reach us?”

Sharing a…

Kirsten Weeks [in Zambia] “realizes that I am happiest on days like today that start with a 6am departure to the airport, visits to a cotton gin, talks with small holder farmers, focus groups at ART clinics with potential problem solving to address nutrition issues, long car rides through rural villages and…

Padmavathy is working as a Manager-Capacity Building in CARE-SAKSHAM team for the past six years. SAKSHAM project works with Community Based Organizations of female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh. During these six years she created many leaders through her art of ‘Appreciating’ the community and helping them believe in their ‘strengths’ to deal with their problems. Many community leaders owe their gratitude for Padmavathy for inspiring them to become great leaders through her…

 I recently visited with a youth gathering; before the session begun one youth leader passed on a message to another, Leader 11 responded in quite a hostile manner and this spurred some negative response from others.  Through stimulating a discussion with leader 11 she has concerns.  Her problems stemmed from her childhood

Her story:  Her father died, her mother migrated for betterment for her and other siblings. She was 13 years old. She was impregnated by her uncle.  Went…

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I will inform you about our CAD in Bandung , West Java Indonesia. we held it on Sept, 18th 2011. it was consist of 38 members students from different universities. There many things that could we share on its. such as there are 8 key words that made us on fire. they are : Smile, Cheersfull, Spirit, Visioner, Silent, Adventure, extrovert, Humorist. These…

Since 2007, CHED Team had a DREAM. The Team main collective DREAM was about CHED Condifentially for happy Military Families, Happy communities and CHED Team are connected at an equality of level to educate and sharing our experiences. On 30 August, 2011 CHED had received a certificate of appreciation from FHI360 in recognition of outstanding accomplishment and contribution to implement of the Smilinf Family Program (SFP)-an HIV/AIDS/RH and other health intervention with funding support from…

Dear Members Join the world to honor the Elderly,

Every year, on 1^st October the World honors the elderly day. International Day of Older Persons was adopted by United Nations General Assembly in 1990 and was first observed globally in 1991. It recognizes and affirms the contributions of older persons, and provides a platform to raise awareness, examine issues, invite dialogue and action on promoting well-being among the elderly. The event is also directed to…

If you’re like me, you have a pile of all the reports, articles, and publications that you’re aiming to get to. And from time to time, I take pleasure in dipping in to explore the new thinking or sound practices in international development and aid effectiveness.

So I’m sharing twelve papers from my virtual pile, featuring excerpts from the 7^th page of text of each, first 3-4 sentences of the second paragraph. Hopefully the exercise will be a fun way to highlight these…

Then you should take this survey.

In other words, it’s for people who read aid blogs.

Why should you bother? For one reason, it's short. It's also anonymous. And most notably, your interests and habits are important to us, the bloggers.

See what the @SmartAid folks and other bloggers have to say about the survey via…

We’ve all seen many participation typologies over the years. But with the one below, which I created when examining local partners’ final reports in 2009, I was trying to describe some simple categories of approaches to working with communities that local non-governmental organizations utilize. It was also meant to capture that fine line that can exist between a community-based organization (CBO) and a community,…

This American Life 444: Gossip, Originally aired 8/26/11 Summary from the…

Sharing this for the benefit of colleagues within the AIDS Competence family - thank you!

As the dust settles on the 10th international conference on HIV & AIDS in Asia and the Pacific and the landfills and paper recycling plants of South Koreas bustling port of Busan await an onslaught of unused, unread and unwanted (?)…

Sierra Leone Community Life Competence was formed four years after the WHO funded international training on the Competence Approach in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2005 in which Sierra Leone participated. Initially, the Malaria Competence Process (MCP) was introduced in Sierra Leone in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS). Three participants represented Sierra Leone in the Kenya training namely Wani Lahai of MOHS, Ibrahim Kamara of Plan Sierra Leone and Joseph Senesie of…