Contribution of SALT approach to address School drop out after COVID 

Hi, I am Ujana Minj, SALT facilitator from Rural Aid, Alipurduar District, West Bengal, India.

In the children's group meeting at Dima tea garden, I and my colleague Pancham and got to know about a school dropout case. The boy said that he is eager to study, but his parents are busy with work and are not able to meet the school authorities.

We decided to conduct a SALT home visit to…

Hi all, in this new episode of the How To Build Community podcast and radio show, we’ve gathered together a team of experts to provide a step-by-step guide to community-led advocacy.

JOANNA WATSON leads an international advocacy team for Tearfund in the UK, CHALWE NYIRENDA is a Social Accountability Adviser for Tearfund in Zambia, and MUNYARADZI MATARUSE works in advocacy for the International Fellowship of Zimbabwe.

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I attended  Global Insight Brown Bag in which three speakers Naama Raz-Yaseef, Ph.D., Carla…

In 2007, I represented my organization to join a workshop facilitated by AIDSCompetence. The SALT approach was introduced to us first hand and this was the start of my personal journey in working with PLHIV and prevention of HIV among children and youth.

Mithu and I work as field facilitators with NGO Purnata in India on the issue of Trafficking. One 23^rd June 2022, we decided to do awareness through SALT method in Akharpur, Para- Minidas, 24 North Pargana, West Bengal.

During the meeting, we encouraged the community members to sit in a circle and asked them what are the good things they have done in their life. Initially, the community members hesitated in sharing. They were laughing that what good could they have  done.…

We are making progress as we take ownership and responsibility in sustainable ways is the theme of the SALT visit.

The Go Girls project takes place in Cameroon, India, Ghana, Kenya and India.

One of the Virtual SALT Visits was held during June 2022. Here is a snippet of that experience. (^_^)

Participants: Marlou, Dolores, Autry, Wiwin, Widad, Comfort, Aaliyah, Fanet, Isabela, Ornella, Rituu, Miel,…

• SALT : Washi Village
  
  Date : Wednesday, 15 June 2022
  
  SALT Taken By : Imran & Shahrukh.
  
  

Went out today to take a SALT after so many days. ShahRukh and I went to Pirwadi village, we walked around the whole village but no one met. Then we go to Washi. There was a group of 4 people sitting on the…

Training on SALT Activity was organized by Avani Organization for school children in Nandwal village. About 15 children in age group of 7 years to 17 years old took part in dream building.

At the time of SALT Activity, the children shared the best experiences of their lives.…

Arrivée là-bas dimanche matin, un peu perdue mais excité à la fois. Perdue car je ne savais pas ce qu’allons nous faire. Mais excité car je sais que je vais découvrir un nouveau truc !

Nébart nous accueille avec un sac et nous invite à nous installer et quelques minutes plus tard  Marlou et Samia arrivent et commencent à nous parler et à nous expliquer le principe de cette formation. Je commence déjà a rentrer dans le bain ! Et je me vois déjà faire  ça avec…

The sound of silence in the room is sharp. You can hear it on your skin.

What does it mean for you to look at Béjaïa in 2037?

“This is about me” (‘je me sens concernée”)

“It is so beautiful, I want to cry”

“If this will be it, I will stay”

The evening…

A Living Story of a Woman who was once Rescued from Domestic work.

Hi everyone, Iam Ujana Minj, facilitator of Rural Aid NGO working in the teagarden of Kalchini Block, Alipurduar district, West Bengal.  

Here is the SALT story of a…

We conducted Salt activity with waste picker women at Sangli. many women participated enthusiastically One of them, a woman named ABC, seemed very strong and brave. She shared her story with us. Her husband left her when she was a child. As her husband left, she did not give up. She decided to live stubbornly and raise her daughter. She got the job and She became financially capable so she did not fall at any situation in educating and raising her daughter. Adhika’s dream is to educate her…

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Radio enthusiast HAZEEN LATIF tells a story of how an isolated migrant community in northern Pakistan brought electricity, water, confidence and skills to their neighbourhood, through something called community centred media.…

Hello everyone, we are from Rural Aid NGO work with support from Global Fund for Children is in Alipurduar District, Kalchini block (State of West Bengal, India). We work in the tea gardens on the issue of trafficking and child labour. We have already working on SALT approach in 10 teagardens of Kalchini Block.

Here are different individual view from our team that Why do we do…

*Tuesday, May 10, 2022*

*Sangli Division*

*Salt process*

Salt activity of women waste pickes was held at Sangli today. This time the women participated enthusiastically. At the beginning, all the women came with the mentality of "just want to listen to this program, someone, sir, madam is going to come and give some information, now you have to go and listen and come because madam has told you". But, we are wrestlers trained by Madam Bhosle of GFC. Along with Ritu's…

We, the Avani team, conducted Self assessment in Nandwal Village, Maharashtra on the village dream for gender equality on 24th May 2022. We invited the community members who had earlier come together on 25th Feb 2022 to develop their common dream.…

Our level 5 when clear, means we are better able to measure progressively our journey towards our dream

This is our dream “Fairly competent as SALT facilitators contributing to making better societies.” Our journey towards the dream began when we created a safe space of trust where we identified who we really are. We understand why we are proud, that we also had similar concerns and…

At  Global Fund for Children. we have introduced Constellation’s SALT and community life competence process (CLCP) to some NGO partners in India. SALT helps the NGO staff to step back and create space for the children, youth and community to carve their own path based on their strengths. Recently I visited to learn from the communities of two NGOs – Avani (Maharashtra State) and Rural Aid (West Bengal state)

Weaving the common dream- Outsiders tend to offer project…