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The Center for Human Progress (CHP) recently conducted a workshop to reduce HIV risks and vulnerabilities; and promote the health and welfare of truck drivers and helpers in Dadri, U.P. The initiative called Red Ribbon on the Road (RRR) was supported by IKEA and its partners. The agenda, included dialogue-based Interpersonal Communication (IPC), Magnet Theatre, Condolympics, HIV and health quiz and a health camp! Here is a link to the workshop report:…

The Southern Africa Bishops Conference AIDS office (SACBC) Team; Johan, Nandi, Surprise and Onesmus- Constellation visited Inkanyezi in Orange farm on the 14 April 2010. Inkanyezi is a HIV/AIDS care and treatment centre being supported by Cordaid through SACBC.

On the onset of our visit, we began by sharing from strengths with a group of 14 patients (6 men and 7 women) who were eagerly waiting for us. Patients were most proud of themselves and…

Obakeng is a 4yr old boy who lives with his grandparents and cousins. He lives in Soweto Protea Glen extension 11, Gauteng Province in South Africa.…

It was time for the “Dream building” session with the trainees of the Police Force training school of which there were two batches, No. 91 and No. 94. Two days of exercises related to HIV/AIDS has always been allocated to the entire training programme. A SALT visit to conduct dream building was part of the two days session. But one could imagine the setting, a regimental batch of trainees. On arrival to the…

Chers amis, voici une copie de mon blog sur le site de La Libre Belgique, posté à l'occasion des cinquante ans de l'indépendance de la RDC.

Quelque part en Afrique, en 2003. Le maire de la capitale…

Evangeline** is now 70 years old, and still works in a voluntary capacity for a non-profit organisation in one of South Africa's biggest informal settlements.

She has much to be proud of. In 2002, Evangeline - in her sixties - was the first student to pass Fair Share's Certificate in Economic Development (CED) course with distinction. Prior to that, she says the "University of the Community" was her learning institution.

In 2002, Evangeline reached a…

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Do you want to stimulate…

Linda van Meygaarden shared her experience with School based facilitators. Reneiliwe ,one of the facilitators from Luckau village in Limpopo assisted the schools to link up with the community as part of the Caring Schools Programme. She is one of the local community members that responded to an advertisement and was trained

in the necessary skills to become accredited youth and child care…

Nontobeko Sithole, Coordinator for Pastoral Care Unit-Catholic Institute of Education shared her experience on how the passionate have influenced change in their community.

The Passionate is a group of high school children from St Paul’s High School that was formed at the beginning of…

KALALAYATHULLIKAL: VOLUNTARY BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGNS IN CAMPUSES…

Pozisa (Pozi) Matoti has been the Centre Manager since December 2005. Initially, training and working as a social worker, Pozi worked as a radio announcer for a while before returning to social work, and finding her way to the Fikelela Children's Home in Khayelitsha - a huge and densely pupulated township on the outskirts of Cape Town, with the highest HIV rate in the Wester Cape of South Africa.

At any given time, roughly 60% of the children are HIV+, having been placed at…

Fikelela Children's Centre aims to restore sick children back to health, and then place them in suitable, trained foster care in the community, with ongoing support and monitoring. Says Fikelela Coordinator Reverend Rachel Mash: "Love is the greatest gift you can give a child, particularly a child that has been traumatised by beavement, neglect or hurt. The difference in the health of the children when they come into an environment where they are loved and cared for and supported…

Sanja Bornmann, Programme Officer for ACESS, shares a

personal reflection about her motivation to defend human rights.

This is a story about conducting our work in accordance with the values of respect for the human dignity of all those around us, and connecting with people on a personal…

ACESS Executive Director, Kevin Rousell, shares a source of organisational pride: ACESS' ability to interact with policy dialogue to advance children's rights in South Africa:

The policy space in South Africa has been opened to allow for people-driven reforms to undo the legacy of apartheid.

ACESS has…

It is 9am. I am sitting in a mini-van heading towards Doi Saket, a district in northern Thailand. Twelve members of ThaiCompetence are excitedly chatting and joking together in the back of the van. For three days, our Thai friends are meeting to share what they have learned in the last three years when applying the SALT approach into their organizations. In the beginning they didn’t know each other. Now, they are good friends…

SPANDANAM – COMBATING HIV/AIDS THROUGH EMPOWERMENT…

Last week I did SALT Visit, even alone, to an NGO working at ARH issues. They used to be work by using BCI approaach and agree to combine SALT's way of workimg and thinking along with their outreach activities. The six members of NGO and me did exploration of individual and groups' strengths, buidling dream, initial self-assesment and plan of action. The visit then run smoothly until I were start writing and documenting my learning at the SALT visit.

Ooooops I learned nothing.…

Hi collegues,