As I wake up in Dimapur, Nagaland, after the best two days of rejuvenating CLCP that we had in the nearby Maova group of villages, it is time for a quick reflection on what we soaked in before other waves of incidents wash away impressions of the last two days from the shores of our minds.…

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« J’ai été en contact pour la première fois avec un malade VIH à l’hôpital Gabriel Touré au pavillon d’hépatogastro entérologie. C’était une dame à qui j’étais chargé aussi de faire cette fois-ci la transfusion sanguine, dans le même pavillon et toujours sans gants, bien évidemment à cette époque là, vous…

but when I went out to be a friend i found many"…

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Nari Saksham is a…

International Child Support (ICS) supports the well-being of children in developing countries. In Africa, ICS works through its own programme offices in Western Kenya(Busia) and Northern Tanzania (Mwanhunzi) as well as partners in Tanzania, Uganda , Kenya and…

I just returned from four days of SALT visits in Karnataka, India. I am still grappling with what happened. No words will ever translate the power of the inspiration flowing through all of us, hosts and guests alike. Maybe the only way to thank for the gift of these days is to act on what we learned in our respective…

Vichet will provide a presentation on ACP process at HIV/AIDS Coordination Committee quarterly meeting on 17 Nov 2010 in Phnom Penh. Today, facilitators belonging to various organizations are establishing a National Support Team in each country, pools of facilitators have been trained, and hundreds of communities have done their self-assessment on AIDS Competence.

The strength-based approach stimulates local dialogue and supports local action on many sensitive issues such…

It has always happened to me. What I have not wanted, I have had to do, and then I have become so absorbed in it that I wonder how I never wanted to do it:-). I was the biggest critic of SALT approach and today I am passionately involved in it. When I met my best friend I thought she disliked me and now…!



Similarly, in the recently concluded international Knowledge Fair in Karnataka, India, participants had to join one of the four subgroups for SALT visits. I made up my mind, I…

Let me share a moving and heart touching story of a true disciple from SALT visits facilitated by The Constellation, India Community Life Competence Group and SAMRAKSHA on 25^th October 2010 at Koppal in North Karnataka, India.…

At the recently concluded CLCP Workshop, for all CARE staff working in EMPHASIS (our project name) held at CARE India office in New Delhi, from 18-21 October 2010, one of the participants asked me an explaination. His dilemma was that if we carried out the Community Life Competence Process there seemed to be an apparent disparity between EMPHASIS (our project) goals and objectives with those of the community. Consequently, I explained that:

In the Targeted Intervention Model…