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Crowdfund a local response: in Sankuru, together against monkeypox

What is a local response and how can I help?

Local teams respond to their current challenges and work towards longer-term dreams by encouraging local ownership of issues and solutions. This is what we mean by a local response.

Some teams have more pressing needs than others at any given time, and would benefit greatly from your support now.

In Sankuru, together against monkeypox

In Sankuru,…

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Added by Marlou on October 20, 2016 at 3:00pm — No Comments

SALT in the Family: Why would I need to be the SALT expert?

I have been enjoying many conversations lately with friends in the Constellation around how we as CLCP facilitators apply ‘naturally’ SALT as a way of working in our own lives as well. Sometimes we say jokingly ‘don’t try this at home’ when it comes to Support, Appreciate, Learn and Transfer in the private circle.

Is SALT in our own family sometimes difficult because we fall into an old trap: we think it is up to us to be the expert?

A small remark from my…

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Added by Marlou on September 12, 2016 at 8:46am — 3 Comments

Sefhoke on The Move

(posted on behalf of CATCH team - Botswana)

Communities tracking and measuring community-driven actions at Ward Level in the South East pilot district of the approach called Communities Acting Together to Control HIV (CATCH).

The CATCH approach that has been piloted since June 2015 in the South East district in Botswana with the support of NACA, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Local Government, UNAIDS, US partners and the Humana…

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Added by Marlou on September 10, 2016 at 12:01pm — 2 Comments

A Dream Machine that produces joy

For the principle for Action:

“Si on crée l’espace pour l’expresssion, les capacites des personnes vont éclore”

 

The dream machine that produces happiness

“Are the children in the Village de Tamarinier poor?” asks my ten year old daughter Chiara when I call her after a day of visiting this Mauritian village. I hesitate. Yes, at the first sight…

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Added by Marlou on April 11, 2016 at 5:14pm — 3 Comments

Nous sommes Amitoyens!

I am sure you will enjoy this song 

The song tells the story and dream of the Amitoyens, in the Pays de Gex, France.

If you don't understand the French you can stil enjoy the music and voice of Lorenzo…

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Added by Marlou on March 9, 2016 at 10:30am — 2 Comments

Les Amitoyens celebrate progress: "Since we defined our dream it became a living reality"

“We are most proud of our perseverance”, the joy is on the faces of all Amitoyens and contagiously clears up all in the room.  A group of participants in a SALT weekend in the east of France is absorbing their story with eagerness. Ears wide open.

They’d better be proud!

The dream that started in them as individuals and in their families years ago is a big step further to reality today – thanks to their perseverance!

'Amitoyens’ dream is to live in co-housing with a…

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Added by Marlou on April 3, 2015 at 2:57pm — 2 Comments

Salty seeds in fertile ground in Ambon - Results and coaching team lessons from first learning event

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…

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Added by Marlou on March 5, 2015 at 2:00am — 1 Comment

Villagers of Hatu in action towards their dream

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Added by Marlou on February 27, 2015 at 2:34pm — 6 Comments

The people from Lima join forces

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Added by Marlou on February 23, 2015 at 1:09pm — 4 Comments

Avec des ressources HUMAINES, nous sommes beaucoup plus riches

Avec mes remerciements à Marie pour la traduction et à Rituu d’avoir invité les membres de la Constellation à partager leurs expériences sur la collecte de fonds! Cela m'a rappelé une «ancienne» histoire que j’ai racontée au Festival international d’échange en Inde. Je la partage ci-dessous car je pense qu'elle est toujours d'actualité dans la Constellation aujourd'hui!

La Constellation est composée de communautés du monde entier. L'équipe de soutien de la Constellation stimule…

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Added by Marlou on December 16, 2014 at 9:51am — No Comments

SALT for Ebola Competence in Sierra Leone

On behalf of Joseph Vandi I am sharing this story he sent me by email. Grateful to Joseph and other SALT facilitators in Ebola affected countries!

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Sesay Vandi a decendant of Gbarley village who was living in Waterloo, a settlement 20 miles off Freetown, lost his wife and two of his four children to Ebola. Few weeks later, he

also died to…

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Added by Marlou on November 28, 2014 at 1:18pm — 4 Comments

With HUMAN resources, we are much richer

With thanks to Rituu for the invitation to all Constellation members to share experiences on fundraising! The request reminded me of an 'old' story that I shared during the International…
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Added by Marlou on November 17, 2014 at 9:40am — 5 Comments

Inhabitants of Grez-Doiceau put their dreams at work

Grez-Doiceau in Belgium is dreaming and planning this weekend.

Belcompétence is demonstrating again the example of what is possible, enjoy this vidéo:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=281792792017085

Good luck to the team of facilitators!!

Marlou

Added by Marlou on October 10, 2014 at 8:34am — 2 Comments

Discovering Dutch Competence: terug op onze fiets!

De Indische buurt in Amsterdam kreeg ruim vijf jaar geleden de twijfelachtig eer toebedeeld tot de 20 slechtste wijken van Nederland te horen. Criminaliteit, armoede, ellende joegen autochtone Nederlanders de buurt uit. De toenmalige minister van Wonen, Wijken en Integratie, Ella Vogelaar, had het inzicht om dit soort wijken, de uitdaging te stellen om Prachtwijken te worden.

Met die missie, en een zakje geld, werd Rob van Veelen de Indische buurt ingestuurd als wijkregisseur.

"Ik…

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Added by Marlou on April 19, 2013 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

The Constellations Global Support Team invites!

And now all those stories and inspiration are flying back with us. To our homes, where we live, to our workplaces…

On the last morning of the Global Learning Festival, we all considered the…

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Added by Marlou on November 29, 2012 at 1:26pm — 2 Comments

Press coverage on our GLF



Need not say more:…
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Added by Marlou on November 23, 2012 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Home Visit in Odessa

Posting below on behalf of Ian Campbell and his facilitation team members in Odessa - Ukraine. After a SALT visit, the team followed up on an invitation to bring a visit at the house of the people they met. They left enriched. Enjoy the reading!

 

During the SALT visit to the refugee group, Mohammed from Guinea said ‘I am a man-I can succeed and I will.’…

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Added by Marlou on November 8, 2011 at 2:24pm — 1 Comment

Les gens m'ont aidé, maintenant c'est à moi d'aider

Pendant ma visite à Samara, Laurence m'a demandé d'interviewer un des amis russes comme 'Membre du mois' pour notre newsletter de la Constellation. J'ai choisi d'écrire sur Alexei, une personne hors du commun. L'histoire ci-dessous est le résultat de plusieurs conversations pendant la semaine et ses contributions pendant les visites SALT. Marlou

 

Je m’appelle Alexei et je viens de Samara, en Russie. J’ai grandi dans une famille de toxicomanes ou l’alcool et la… Continue

Added by Marlou on July 22, 2011 at 9:27am — 1 Comment

People helped me, now I want to help

During my visit to Samara Laurence asked me to interview one of the Russian friends as ‘member of the month’ for our Constellation Newsletter. I chose to follow Alexei, he is a special person. The story below is the result of various conversations during the week and his contributions during the SALT visits.

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I am Alexei, from Samara, Russia. I grew up in an addicted family: alcohol and drugs were always there. It was a hard environment for a child to grow up. I was… Continue

Added by Marlou on July 22, 2011 at 8:55am — 3 Comments

First of all, we are All Human

Digesting all my learning from a week in Samara, a beautiful Russian city at the Wolga, it appears to me, now clearer then ever, that SALT is a natural process. It reminds us to be ‘normal’, to be the human beings we are in all our interactions.

Natasya, in her wheelchair during our last (in a series of 6) SALT visits that week says it beautifully:

“These meetings with your team once again proved that it is not important how we look, what language we speak, what confession we are…

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Added by Marlou on July 5, 2011 at 4:08pm — 7 Comments

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