Who is Mama Kara? It is the community self-assessment (SALT) training organized by the Togolese Red Cross in partnership with UNICEF, which took place in Kara from the 18th until the 21st May 2015. In June a pilot phase will start in Togo: 2 regions, 4 districts, 8 villages.

Different actors, from project coordinators to mammas from the club de mères will use the community self-assessment in the different villages. The villages will evaluate their situation regarding the…

Just the day after, the first hit by 7.8 RS Earthquake on 25th April 2015, many casualties from epicenter lying areas of Nepal esp. from Gorkha were admitted to Gandaki Hospital, Pokhara.

While assessing the scene to the green zone area, my attention went to a girl there at the corner of Green zone area, named Babita Sunar. She was alone and no guardian to take care of her. She is only 10 years old. Slowly, I came to know her background details. She was an orphan living in support by…

 “Our biggest dream is that our employers treat us with love and care and dignity. They trust us and value our work. They do not discriminate against us. We have the same blood as them.” That was the comment by one of the domestic worker in her early thirties.  This dream was echoed by 20 domestic workers of Kalyanpuri area in outskirts of Delhi. They said that some employers are nice but some are very harsh. Some even keep different utensils for them to eat. It takes both sides to…

Written by Shakil (IDF), Kirti (Centre Direct), Madhuri  and Arun (Adithi), Jitendra Kumar Singh (Prayas) ,Subedar (PGS), Sachin Kumar, Rituu, Rajneesh Kumar.

A group of us recently visited a community in UP which composed of members who were bonded labors in brick-kilns. The story below is about a community which has taken action against the atrocity and slavery under the veil of their livelihood, took ownership of their issue and is collectively acted upon…

Written by Rajneesh Kumar Yadav, Sachin Kumar and Rituu B Nanda

This is a story from Kukdaha Community vigilance committee (CVC)[1] in Jhalupur, Uttar Pradesh. Our MSEMVS team supported by Geneva Global and funded by Freedom Fund has been working here to bring labourers out of bondage from brick kilns and encouraging them to address their livelihood, government services and anti-slavery issues so that they do not get entrapped in the same…

Ce matin j'ai eu la chance de faciliter une rencontre par Skype entre Hélène et Valéry de l'association Liboso (en Belgique) et le comité local "Ensemble la santé pour tous en Pays de Redon" (Bretagne) qui s'apprête à tenter l'aventure du SALT.

Un échange très riche entre une structure belge et une structure française, le Partage et le Transfert ont ici pris tout leur sens! Merci à Laurie et Hervé d'avoir proposé cette rencontre.

Voici un extrait du témoignage des deux repré…

Dear Constellation friends,

I write you today filled with gratitude and bewilderment as I look back and…

I used to do sensitization and counselling for HIV, Drug and Substance abuse, sexual and reproductive health and life skills education amongst senior secondary schools Youths in Entebbe Uganda. Once in every term (three months). My approach was for an expert in a way that what is right for them, I also told them what to do and what not to do. But I realized that it was not very effective because they are adolescents they are experimenting and experiencing different things and all…

La Guinée n'étant pas sortie de l'ornière de la Maladie à virus Ebola, les anciens foyers calmes comme Macenta au sud de la Guinée, s'inscrit dans la dynamique de la vigilance. Que faire pour ne pas que la maladie revienne à Macenta? Faire en sorte que les malades qui échappent dans les autres, ne soient des facteurs de rebondissement.

un travail avec les Gendarmes et les polices sur les compétences face à la maladie à virus Ebola. Ces deux unités sont en contact direct avec la…

Ce matin, le centre de santé sis dans un quartier de Macenta, Bowa. Il a été question de travailler avec le personnel médical du centre très fréquenté par des femmes car c'est la ou il y a une maternité appréciée avec des sages femmes compétences. Après la formulation des rêves les jours passés, nous avons attaqué aujourd'hui la deuxième étape:L'autoévaluation.…

It is not difficult to see an older person smiling given what you are offering to that person is genuine and originates from the bottom of your heart. Take a look at Norah aged 80 years old, a resident of Sitabaale village in Busukuma Sub County with a promising smile on seeing Community Hive Organization (CHO) team, university students and school pupils building and handed over a drying rake to her. She did not have where to put her utensils after wash. She also had…

En Guinée comme ailleurs, partout ou l'Ebola a fait son ouragan, le personnel médical paye lourdement le prix. Dans l'optique d'arrêter l'infection du personnel médical à Macenta, l'initiative a été de développer des compétences  leur permettant de s'approprier de la situation en vue que les comportements utiles de prévention font partir en partie intégrante de leur vie de tous les jours.

Les entretiens se font juste après la réunion du staff, on continue pour 30 minutes chaque matin…

Mid afternoon sun shines bright as we pass by a garden to Agnes house.  She is the secretary of older persons group in Kabaale, a suburb community of Entebbe, Uganda. What surprises us is that out of about 13 women there are three women who are much younger- two in their late thirties and one is 16 years old Paulina. Multiple generations coming together in meeting convened by older women is common in this community. When people are raised in different time periods, their thinking can be…

I work as a counselor on different projects related to HIV, reproductive health, drugs and substance abuse with the young persons and key populations.

Before I started using SALT our approach was to give solutions to these people we used to work with, counsel them how to live their life better. And give them guidelines how to do everything. This was not very effective in helping them to change their behavior because the solutions were ours and which they could not apply in their life.…

Qu'est ce que j'ai appris

“La gestion du tri selectif m'intéresse.J’ai souhaité mettre en place dans ma structure un tri des déchêts éfficace en installant dans la cuisine deux poubelles différentes.Durant la formation, la question de la du tri selectif a été abordée. J’ai manifesté le fait que parfois ces petites actions faisables ne fonctionne pas dans les équipes de travail et j’ai évoqué la situation. Une de mes collègues m’a fait remarqué que je n’avais consulté personne sur le…

We conducted this exercise with about 20 community members, NGO staff and government officers in a meeting in Entebbe, Uganda on 22^nd April 2015. The objective was to capture where we are in terms of documentation of our work so that we can improve and realize our dream of systematic documentation. It will help us to measure our progress effectively and also share and exchange amongst us and with the larger Constellation community.

What…

“I did not know what to expect…….I have not been with this group of women since last year. I like SALT even though I was not trained as a Facilitator. When the team of Facilitators indicated that the women of Lallmattie offered a good opportunity for doing SALT, I willingly agreed. Today’s experience helped me to appreciate SALT, more and I know I made the right decision. My hope is that we can continue doing SALT with the ladies of Lallmattie” Annabelle, the Facilitator of Etoile…

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“We are most proud of our perseverance”, the joy is on the faces of all Amitoyens and contagiously clears up all in the room.  A group of participants in a SALT weekend in the east of France is absorbing their story with eagerness. Ears wide open.

They’d better be proud!

The dream that started in them as individuals and in their families years ago is a big step further to reality today – thanks to their perseverance!

'Amitoyens’ dream is to live in co-housing with a…