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Facilitation, organization and community

I was reading the Constellations news letter for January and thought will go bed soon as it is almost midnight here. I could not stop and go. I read the news on launching of blended learning programme and the comments made by the participants and also an experience shared by Phil.

Yes, I am talking about the organizations, say x NGO or even UNFPA who supports faciliatate CLC in communities and want to integrate CLC approach in it's strategic plan. Its a big and challenging task and I… Continue

Added by rebeka sultana on February 5, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

SALT at the NAPS (National AIDS Programme Secretariat)

Today we did the Self Assessment Framework with some members of our Staff. It was abit challenging at first, but we came out quite good at the end. At the After Action Review, I came up with that we started with a one SALT and ended with the desired SALT.
The SALT we started with was

S- Suspicion
A- Apprehension
L- Lukewarm
T- Tension

We did well at end

Thanks to USA

Nazim

Added by Nazim Hussain on February 4, 2010 at 9:00pm — 8 Comments

Résolution du problème de dépistage dans les communautés en RDCongo

Le CDV mobile facilite-t-il l'accès à ce service?

Depuis 14h00', aujourd'hui, 04 février 2010, les équipes salt de RDCCompétence sont en discussion en rapport avec les services minimum offerts à nos communautés. Le dépistage constitue la question phare, qui a généré une discussion sans fin.

Yolo a prouvé que l'approche Salt a suffisanment aidé la zone de santé de Kalamu 2 à monter des nouvelles stratégies, purement communautaire qui constiste à inverser le processus. Ce… Continue

Added by Samuel Michael MUSEY on February 4, 2010 at 4:59pm — 4 Comments

Measuring Changes, how do we confident enough about that?

Dear All

Its about how to measure changes. How to be confident enough to put such number at status upon our practices. Meanwhile some of adapted responces had been made but we not so sure about that. At our context, Adolescent Reproductive health, some practices is not too specific and technical. Some are still general.

Our goup member has decided at what status they were, but still not really confident about that. As a team work this "unsure" status influence… Continue

Added by wiwin winarni on February 4, 2010 at 10:17am — 2 Comments

HIV/AIDS impact on Religion

Dear All

Good Evening

It is interesting that HIV/AIDS have impact on the religion also. Home and Community based HIV/AIDS Care and Support Programme is observed that the PLHA are converting their religion in Andhra Pradesh after acquiring the HIV/AIDS. They suffer with depression and psychological problems in beginning days and pray in their homes for some days. Later few are converting from Hinduism to Christianity. But it is observed that there is no conversion from… Continue

Added by Abraham Mutluri on February 3, 2010 at 10:00am — 6 Comments

Bonne Année 2010!

En 2009 nous avons vu quatre avancées majeures. Notre vision commune a évolué vers la compétence communautaire pour la vie. Grâce au développement de notre programme d’apprentissage accompagné (« blended learning »), nous avons consolidé notre manière de penser, notre façon de travailler et harmonisé nos outils de facilitation. La plateforme Ning nous permet de partager nos expériences de facilitation… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Lamboray on February 2, 2010 at 5:56pm — No Comments

Happy 2010!

(Version française au plus tard mercredi!)

2009 saw four major advances: first, our common vision evolved from AIDS Competence towards Community Life Competence; second, we consolidated our way of thinking, our way of working and related facilitation tools through the development of our blended learning program; third we can now learn and share with other Constellation members through Ning; fourth, we better understand our organizational model –the starfish!- and have at our disposal… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Lamboray on February 1, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

CONDOLYMPICS: PATH Helping Kenya’s Uniformed Officers Overcome Condom Use Barriers

Many officers have issues with the condom, partly informed by myths, incorrect information, religious and cultural rigidity, machoism etc. These issues are a huge barrier to the promotion of correct and consistent condom use as an effective HIV prevention technique. Condom-use failure is also high amongst uniformed officers in Kenya as many of them 'believe' they know how to use yet a lot of human error occurs when they attempt to use it for sex.

It is for these reasons that I… Continue

Added by OLUOCH-MADIANG' on February 1, 2010 at 1:24pm — 4 Comments

Community members caring for children.

This is a story shared by the women in the village of Koodaliga, in Dharwad, Karnataka (India).

When a husband and wife died of HIV, their two young children were left orphaned. The other relatives of the children lived very far away and were not interested in taking responsibility for the children. Then a young lady, who was their neighbor, offered to care for the children and rise them. Today, she continues to rise the two children, along with her own . Her volunteering to come… Continue

Added by murari rao samraksha india on February 1, 2010 at 12:17pm — 1 Comment

Mobilising our efforts for a voice at Vienna

Friends,

Can we as a constellation of connected people, groups and organizations who have experience with facilitating local responses, mobilize to share our experiences and results at the upcoming XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna? This is the challenge UNAIDS recently put to us. The invitation by UNAIDS signals a much greater openness to non bio medical approaches and related results.

Here is the catch: we need to submit as many abstracts as possible by… Continue

Added by Marlou on January 29, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Good Nutrition for PLWHA

Balanced diet is a process of healing.It is based on this that some women groups in my area have sort better feeding habits as a means of fighting the world's pandemic.

Nutrition is the analysis of food and what it does to the body.It is also the study of the various food types and their nutritional contents. Nutrition also deals with the composition of food, its cooking methods and consequences of lmack of vital nutrientsin the body.

In a workshop carried out last year for trainers… Continue

Added by Njoh Angwi Constance on January 29, 2010 at 11:04am — 1 Comment

Life Competence

Hello all,

I am back at Jakarta almost after 5 weeks. This green city, the ojecks ( motor cycles), vendors at the streets selling all sorts of foods... make me feel I am home. Even this time in Dhaka I was missing Jakarta, life in Jakarta and off course the warm welcoming people of this city! Peoples are busy all day yet not rushing. You won't see here people are walking in hurry. relax and happy smiling faces. In my 2 years stay here now I think peoples smiling face are the… Continue

Added by rebeka sultana on January 28, 2010 at 1:26pm — 3 Comments

Community Life Competence and Inspiration

Hello friends!

A deeply fulfillling 2010 to you! Let us hope the cup of inspiration overflows!!! It all started with Jean Louis' words at the Chiang Mai Knowledge Fair." If we believe that others can be the agents of change, they become the agents of change and then we are inspired" Believing communities could be the agents of change, the Samraksha team had been trying to be catalysts for change in the community for many years. We would often say...we are so charged when we are in… Continue

Added by Sanghamitra Iyengar on January 24, 2010 at 6:57am — 3 Comments

Fate Why?

FATE WHY?

Fate why?

Question often asked.

I am HIV positive,

Why me?

Turning around,

I could hear some people saying;

I have a heart disease,

I am suffering from cancer of the pancreas "

I am suffering from a disease which,

Medically has not yet been diagnosing. "

Suddenly, I saw this shadow echoing

Footsteps coming towards me.

And the closer, the quite .

Then - said;

I am diabetic,

Also suffering from a liver… Continue

Added by zoneziwoh on January 22, 2010 at 7:03pm — No Comments

Referring SALT to Self Help Group

Mingalarpar to all
I had visited to aids competence office, Chiang Mai at November 2009. During this trip, I could try to understand about the SALT methodology. Then I had tried to transfer these methodology to my staffs, partners and local SHG. So 2 SHG had understand the SALT and then they also tried to apply their activities.Thanks for aidscompetence!!! I think more of SHG will apply SALT and get success in their activities.

Added by Ye Win on January 21, 2010 at 4:34am — 5 Comments

Greater awareness is needed

Dear friends ,

thank you for sharing with me your own experience concerning the situation of women and girls as far as HIV/AIDS is concerned. my worry mostly is because women form the backbone of our economy, especially at the rural level. the life of their family depends almost entirely on them. most women have averagely 3 children.

with such a position in the soceity it is dangerous if this group has to be affected to this level.

the government is doing alot in this area of… Continue

Added by Njoh Angwi Constance on January 20, 2010 at 10:06am — 3 Comments

Songs for change

Songs are powerful tools to inspire change in people. Samraksha teams and the communities have composed and popularized many songs. These are songs challenging stigma, promoting positive living and promoting bonding among and across communities. Here are some instances which particularly stuck me, about the power of songs.

One song speaks the story of a HIV affected child, who has been abandoned by her uncle and aunt. The song traces her life through the phase when she was abandoned… Continue

Added by Bheri M R on January 20, 2010 at 7:52am — 3 Comments

Inclusion: montrons l'exemple!

Les blogs d'aujourd'hui m'incitent à partager un souvenir qui m'est cher.

Ruhaha, juillet 2010.

Nous visitons cette communauté rwandaise proche de la frontière du Burundi. Nous venons des six pays de la GLIA et d'Europe. Entrés dans la salle de réunion, nous refusons de nous assoir à la haute table, et nous mélangeons aux personnes qui nous accueillent. Bosco qui facilite les échanges, nous demande de nos tourner vers nos voisins et de nous faire l'accolade. Nous voici… Continue

Added by Jean-Louis Lamboray on January 19, 2010 at 6:43pm — 2 Comments

Personal sharing inspiring action in others

The sharing of the lived experience of the people with HIV is a source of support for PLHIV and also influences attitudes of other important people like their famiy and their community towards them. This can lead to changes in discriminatory behavior and active offers of support

During a group education session, one positive woman shared that her elder son had started acting in a very discriminatory way towards her. He kept complaining that her illness had stigmatized him, and he… Continue

Added by murari rao samraksha india on January 19, 2010 at 8:37am — 1 Comment

Some inspiring stories of inclusion

Samraksha has been working with different village communities in North Karnataka, and recently engaged in a reflective perspective building process using the self-assessment framework.

Communities dream about being an inclusive society. They want to create a society where there is no stigma, where people with HIV are treated as others, and are able to publicly disclose their status, without any fears and seek support from others. These are some inspiring stories

Basappa's… Continue

Added by Divya Sarma on January 19, 2010 at 6:30am — 2 Comments