As a member of the Guyana Team I have so much to be reflective about during SALT visits. Quite recently CLCP has just conducted  training of which I participated. Looking back, before Life Competence , local response meant feedback after an intervention in the community - how they felt about what was shared and not really about what they could do for themselves.  SALT  brought new flavour to local response - community involvement from beginning to end.  I recognize that to be successful in…

 I recently visited with a youth gathering; before the session begun one youth leader passed on a message to another, Leader 11 responded in quite a hostile manner and this spurred some negative response from others.  Through stimulating a discussion with leader 11 she has concerns.  Her problems stemmed from her childhood

Her story:  Her father died, her mother migrated for betterment for her and other siblings. She was 13 years old. She was impregnated by her uncle.  Went…

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I am pursuing a Social Work Programme and we were given a few assignments so I used SALT to get the assignments done. It was observed that the students who were strong were pushing ahead, so there was need to find a way to get all involved. We rearranged our position as a team and first listened to everyone's ideas and highlight our strengths. The assignment was based on Egypt's ways of communication and culture - everyone were not good at speaking but…