Unique centre prenant en charge les femmes touchées par la drogue et la prostitution, Chrysalide fête ses dix ans. Cinq cents femmes comptant parmi les plus vulnérables de la société y sont passées. Quelques-unes s’y sont mues en beaux papillons. Les responsables du centre ont compris qu’il leur faut constamment se réinventer face à la complexité du problème.

Il fait peut-être un peu chaud, mais une bonne tasse de thé ne se refuse pas sous la varangue créole de Chrysalide à Bambous.…

Elles sont femmes et mères et luttent pour faire vivre leurs enfants. En amont de la Journée Internationale de la Femme qui sera célébrée le 8 mars, une autre date est à marquer dans les agendas : le 3 mars, Journée Internationale des Travailleurs du Sexe.

 In April 2013 I completed a SALT weekend in Amsterdam with lots of fun. Inspired , I went  back to work in our welfare organization in the south of Holland in Kerkrade. My dream was: A SALTY welfare organization . Big and bold! My dream and enthusiasm helped me to spread SALT slowly and let people around us have positive experiences with it. 2 of my colleagues were then infected with SALT virus, and also joined a weekend in Amsterdam. They helped…

I as a youth took this initiative to empower senior citizens by making a group of likeminded colleagues with a common vision and mission. We then started organizing awareness program through signature campaign against elder abuse, awareness program in schools and colleges and finally with some fundraising initiative we started Nepal’s First Day care and Lifelong Learning Center. I have been mobilizing local resources ( human resource, fund, donations) and coordinating with various…

The result of a six day CLCP learning event in Ambon Indonesia is overwhelming. We count thirty confident facilitators, two potential coaches who can support the new facilitators, and a local partner organisation that is turning into a SALTy organisation. Three action plans are ready for implementation and three communities in a village developed their dreams and exchanged among the teams about possibilities and non possibilities for further…

Before we leave to Ghana...

Thank you to all the people who have supported us these past few months in many different ways!

Ah! We also finally listened to Celicia! 

Hans and I did the first part of the SALT (dream and practices) regarding what we expect of H2CGhana and ourselves. We really needed it, we discovered a lot and we want to continue in this…

On February 4th 2015, Netherlands Leprosy Relief Foundation, launched LepClips at Hotel Royal Palza, New Delhi. 

“LepClips” are short films (video clips) on different aspects of leprosy. At present there are 10 video clips each of 5-7 minutes duration, prepared in English and Hindi.

Why these “LepClips”

Inadequate training and untrained staff leads to late case detection and poor case management of leprosy leading to disabilities, stigma…

A 15 year old girl, whom we will call Nancy, came by to our office in her school uniform this afternoon looking rather cheerful.   It was her way of saying thank you and letting us know that all is well with her.  Last December, she was ordered to spend 2 weeks confined at the Singapore Girls Home as a slap on the wrist for breaching her supervision order.  The judge told her that it could have been 18 months if not for her voluntary work which we described in our…

tumne dekha hoga ki red light pr chote chote bache bhik mang rahe h
un pr humne sochna hoga.......

Elle est montée dans le train à la gare de Florival.  J’ai eu l’attention attirée par l’attitude du contrôleur, qui attendait patiemment que la personne monte. J’ai ensuite compris. La jeune femme est mal voyante, et elle laissait à son chien le soin de monter.

Je leur ai laissé ma place, plus spacieuse. La dame dégage une belle énergie et alors que le train serpente le long de la vallée de la Dyle, (à gauche les étangs, à droite la forêt) je me suis rassis en face d’elle et…

She got into the train at the Florival station. The controller's attitude drew my attention as he was patiently waiting for a person to board. Then I understood. The young woman was blind, and she let her dog board first to guide her inside. I offered them my place which was more spacious and went to sit on the other side of the aisle. As the train was winding along the Dyle valley, with ponds to the left and the forest to the right, the lady was radiating a beautiful energy.  I decided to…

Hans and I have given birth to H2CGhana! A newborn “educational project” that tries to stand out among tons of others.…

As the Constellation ventures into 2015, it is with sincere appreciation I am reflecting on the overwhelming response from all of you towards the Nomination of The Constellation for the 2014 Health Systems Social Media Awards.

It was truly inspiring; it offers hope for what the Constellation can achieve with our accumulative support to local response. Seeing the endorsements was great, but seeing that it came from all continents was so exciting! Showing that 'seeds of SALT'…

Je m’appelle  SUZANNE, j’ai 39 ans,  je suis mère  de 5 enfants. J’ai un problème de drogue et d’alcool. Ma motivation pour me réhabiliter c’est ma petite famille, c'est-à-dire ma mère et mes 5 enfants.

Voici mon histoire, mon vécu :

Depuis 2002, j’ai commence à prendre de la drogue pour mon plaisir et pour faire plaisir a mon mari, tellement je l’aimais, afin qu’il ne me quitte pas.

Je ne connaissais rien a la drogue a cette époque, je n’avais aucune information a ce…

Chers amis de Constellation

A l'occasion de nos dix ans d'existence, voici la Déclaration Universelle du Droit au Rêve. Est-ce que ce texte "résonne" pour vous? Pourrait-il devenir le manifeste de la Constellation?

Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année , et meilleurs voeux pour l'An Neuf.

Jean-Louis…

Dear Friends of the Constellation,  

As a celebration of our ten year anniversary, please find below a Declaration on the Universal Right to Dream. Does it resonate with you? Shall we make it our Constellation manifesto, for people to sign all over the world?

Happy holidays!…

What should projects accomplish… and for whom?

An unnamed international non-profit client contacted me to evaluate their resilience project mid-stream, to gauge prospects for sustainable handover. EUREKA, I thought! After email discussions with them I drafted an evaluation process that included learning from a variety of stakeholders, ranging from Ministries, local government and the national University who were to take over the programming work about what they thought would be most…