Dear Friends,
Recently I have got an opportunity to be in a theoretical "SALT Session", along with a day long field visit towards it's "Practical Implementation" in Kolkata invited by Dr. Rafique of CARE India Team.
It was very use full sort of reorientation for self-stimulation and self-recognition as a community representative of People Living with HIV.
As a matter of fact, I…
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Added by Snehansu Bhaduri on May 15, 2010 at 9:39am —
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Dear Friends,
We have in the last three weeks begun introducing CLC and ACP in the EMPHASIS project of CARE India. The difference is that SALT visits in CARE show how SALT can be used to achieve CARE's + Community's objectives, dreams and so on...Moreover, it is useful as a tool for impressing on other International NGO's that you need no additional investment, and you get better returns on your own indicators, if you practice SALT. Finally, the field teams have…
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Added by Dr. E. Mohamed Rafique on May 13, 2010 at 4:00pm —
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Recently I had the opportunity to spend a week working with a group of young people. We spent the time in a world very different from their normal environment of a large city. And you could say that the week was about
appreciating the strengths of these young people.
At the end of one the sessions that I ran, one of my colleagues a retired priest started to talk to me. ‘You know’, he said, ‘what you do is very similar to Confession, but…
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Added by Phil on May 13, 2010 at 9:00am —
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It’s been almost two (02) years, since January of 2008, that Handicap International is implementing the project of “Empowerment of People with Disabilities and Strategic Partnership to Reduce Their Vulnerability to HIV and AIDS”. The project is basically focused on improving their capacities to advocate…
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Added by Joao Arnaldo Vembane on May 5, 2010 at 11:09pm —
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Dialoguer avec les nécessités de nos cultures avec une ouverture envers les diversités et les différences culturelles…
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Added by Sophie Kotanyi on May 3, 2010 at 6:54pm —
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The Constellation has the privilege of partnership with IIRR/CORDAID partners in Ethiopia. The focus is on integrating AIDS Competence with their community managed disaster risk reduction process. We are in the midst of the first follow-up visit, following an exposure visit to Kenya and an initial training workshop in 2009.
The first week was spent in Borana, hosted by SOS. SOS works with pastoral communities and here are some reflections from that visit:
'when…
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Added by April Foster on April 27, 2010 at 6:20am —
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I have been pondering on this issue for a very long time.
When i was in high school, i attended a boarding school were the student were so rough and rude.
The school had lots of bushes around and sometime the student were found in this bush. The principal always punish people found in this kind of place because it was out of bound, but the student always go there either to smoke, gamble or have sex.
I had four friends who we were so close to me and we respected each others value,…
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Added by ukeme okon on April 26, 2010 at 4:54pm —
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My organisation is coming up with a manual to help people in the local community during their facilitation process.
The reason why we dicided to come up with this manual is because we discover that after executing some of our activity, the people cannot transfer the lesson learnt to other people around them.
The impact is not really felt, we decided to come up with a manual to help them build their capacity the more.
We are writting on the following
1.…
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Added by ukeme okon on April 26, 2010 at 2:51pm —
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My organisation is coming up with a manual to help people in the local community during their facilitation process.
The reason why we want up with this manual is because we discover that after executing some of our activity, the people cannot transfer the lesson learnt to other people around them.
The impact is not really felt, we decided to come up with a manual to help them build their capacity the more.
We are writting on the following
1. Documentation/Measurement
2.…
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Added by ukeme okon on April 26, 2010 at 2:38pm —
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I would like to share with you a story that comes from Luc Barrière-Constantin about SALT visits. It helps me to be very clear about the difference between my 'usual' way of doing things and the possibility of doing different. Luc is a founding member of the Constellation and currently works for UNAIDS in Tanzania.
In his story he compares two visits that he made to the Karyako Health Centre in Kigali, Rwanda. In his first visit that he made in 1994, he came as an expert…
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Added by Phil on April 25, 2010 at 11:30am —
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I would like to share a community action to reduce the stigma and Discrimination in Andhra Pradesh. Non Governmental Organisations, Government, Donor Agencies were succeeding to address…
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Added by Abraham Mutluri on April 24, 2010 at 12:30pm —
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Unsafe sex is the leading cause of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection globally. Young people under the age of 25 are estimated to account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide, with an average of two young persons being infected every hour of every day. HIV/ AIDS is rapidly spreading and has cost millions of lives and billions of dollars to humanity. Studies have shown that despite biological factors like sexual relationships, drug injection, blood transfusion, there are some…
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Added by ukeme okon on April 23, 2010 at 6:55pm —
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How do we know that appreciating strengths works? Well, I know. I am absolutely clear of its power. Here is how I know.
I have told this story twice within the Constellation and on each occasion I have felt a little embarrassed and uncomfortable. But what happened was for me so powerful and changed what I do that I thought I would share it here.
My wife was a governor at our local secondary school. It is quite a large school with about 1,400 pupils. Well, as sometimes happens, there was…
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Added by Phil on April 17, 2010 at 9:35pm —
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Added by Jeanne d'Arc Kengne on April 16, 2010 at 11:53am —
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Never to be over-emphasized. Its common knowledge now that knowledge is power. This has been achieved over the century through different medium but not always with a human touch. Denying that we have many problems amongst us is self suicidal and negligence at its best.
A child of six years will not understand what a problem (what is wrong) till one tells him so, the first time he makes a mistake, he can be pardoned but doing it for the second time will…
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Added by Emmanuel Mwale on April 16, 2010 at 9:00am —
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Dear friends, we all have these moments in our day-to-day work where we think: "what option should I choose here? What is more important? Am I crossing a line by doing this?"
Well, recently we developed with the Constellation Support Team (CST) some principles for action that can help us in…
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Added by Gaston on April 13, 2010 at 4:22pm —
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Added by Risya Kori on April 13, 2010 at 6:00am —
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(Yet another story from Uncle Houlai, a village headmaster from Molvum village in Northeast India. A strong ACP advocate he has taken the approach far and wide to several villages. Uncle Houlai gave me a sheet of paper in which he had written this story. Please can you post it for me, he said. I promise to post the stories myself once I get a computer. So here is Uncle Houlai narrating his story.)
There is a… Continue
Added by Rituu B. Nanda on April 11, 2010 at 12:00pm —
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Dear All,
Greetings!
I returned a few weeks ago from Manipur after the first-of-its-kind youth and community festival was conducted in Manipur as part of the Knowledge FAN project in the north east.
The festival was attended by 300+ youth and communities from over 30 organisations across the two states. Key stakeholders including Dr. K. Pramodkumar, Project Director Manipur State AIDS Control Society, Mr. Ng. Nongyai, Honourable Member,…
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Added by Ash Pachauri on April 11, 2010 at 1:30am —
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I want to describe a way that I use to appreciate strengths. It helps me. Perhaps it can help others.
In a previous blog, I described how I came to understand one element of SALT as the idea that I needed to learn from an engagement with a community.
Before I start I would like to explain a little about my attitude toward knowledge. In a world that values knowledge perhaps this explanation will cause some surprise. I do not value knowledge highly. It takes time and effort to…
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Added by Phil on April 9, 2010 at 5:47pm —
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