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Role of a father in nurturing strong daughters

SALT and CLCP in villages where Avani is working in Kolhapur, Maharashtra is illuminating examples of  strong women and girls. The number is low but it's there.
One such example is family of Anil Patil from Village Nandwal. His daughter and niece are both being coached to enter the police services. Notably, his niece, who is married, defies societal norms by wearing…
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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on March 8, 2024 at 5:22pm — 2 Comments

The ripple effect of individual & collective change in a Women's group

29th Feb, the sun shining bright as John, Dhiraj, and I join the Avani Smile team for a SALT visit to  a 10-member Self-help group. This SHG set up in village Nandwal, India a year ago, includes three mothers-in-law amongst their members. About 3 months ago Jayshree and Koushalya initiated individual SALT conversations with these women.…
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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on March 1, 2024 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

He taught me to unlearn...

The first time I spoke to S.M Tazammal Haque from Bangladesh Rural Economic Development (BRED) was on 6th Nov 2023. As Nawaz and I were to visit their office later in the month, I shared briefly about SALT and the baseline. There was warmth in his tone that immediately connected us. When we met at the BRED office in Dhaka, we formed an instant bond - we both confessed to not being morning people, which became an ongoing joke between us. …

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on February 11, 2024 at 1:00pm — No Comments

What you have learnt is just a handful of sand

From 30th Jan to 1st Feb I facilitated SALT and CLCP with Team PIECES from organisation called SCARF in Chennai, India. They are working towards patient-owned approach to mental illness.  When the whole group developed their dream, one of the sub-groups which called themselves Zen group shared their dream in the form of pictures and had powerful insights. I feel honoured to share it as a blog in their…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on February 1, 2024 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

When you have no support, be your own pillar!

It was a hazy winter evening at the Tea garden community of Dima, around 4 pm- 20th Jan'24. We had conducted one home SALT visit. Nityam and Rati urged us to do another SALT visit to the home of a tea garden worker- Pushpa . Anuradhaji, Shahrukh, and me, we joined them.…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on January 21, 2024 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Appreciating people's strengths makes me happy

I used to work in UNDP Solution Exchange when I was first exposed to SALT. Laurence from the Constellation interviewed me for the newsletter, find the extract here. At that time, CLCP was called Aids competence (ACP). I started facilitating much later, as it took a lot of time to process a strength-based approach and move from an expert mindset. I did not give up and I finally took the first…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on January 4, 2024 at 8:30am — No Comments

Are you a farmer?

We enter a spic and span house of a couple who are organic farmers. My colleague Vikrant​ from Avani has been having SALT conversations with the ​male farmer, Mr Sanjay Chavan from Village Kandgaon, Maharashtra. The farmer has also contributed to the village's dream during this process which included a dialogue with village adolescents and children on organic farming.

When we asked him about the good things he has…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on October 24, 2023 at 12:30pm — No Comments

To co-create, distribute facilitation & connect

In May 2023, Global Fund for Children partners came together to share and learn, most of them had never met each other. The theme of the event was Community ownership and participatory MEL. Out of the 5 NGOs, four NGOs have used  SALT and CLCP and participatory MEL. The event was hosted by NGO Avani in Kolhapur. 
Who facilitates? who…
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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on August 1, 2023 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Down the memory lane- learning Festivals & Knowledge Fairs

Philip Forth describes, "A Knowledge Fair is an event is which people come together to learn and to share based on their experiences. The guiding principle is that all of have something to learn and that all of us have something to share. There are no experts."

I have been part of several learning festivals and Knowledge Fairs. I wrote a blog/compiled photos after almost all the events. 

Nov 2010, Karnataka, India  mentored by Lawan…
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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on July 18, 2023 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Why does it take time to adopt SALT?

Rural Aid works with Tea Garden communities in West Bengal and started using SALT more than a year ago. I asked the wonderful team the reason why those working with communities take so much time to understand and use SALT. Here is what they said- Very powerful and clear. Thank you Rural Aid team!

Reason…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on May 1, 2023 at 3:30pm — No Comments

We needed outsiders to come & ask us our dream!

Kandgaon village builds its common dream for children & youth

Avani Team conducted several SALT conversations in the past few months in Village Kandgaon, Maharashtra, India. the project is supported by Global Fund for children.

On 4th April, the team invited the local elected leader, a female…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on April 11, 2023 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Village celebrates improvement in immunisation and use of water filters

This was shared by SALT facilitator, Baharul Islam, from C-NES, Assam on 28/12/2018



Re-self assessment of their dream by community group from Kerkhabari village of Bongaigaon district, Assam where it was seen that they were able to reach the target planned during the first phase of SALT intervention from…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on October 25, 2022 at 11:30am — No Comments

School Management committee responds to contaminated drinking water

The project with behaviour change approach rooted in community ownership took place in 2 phases between April 2017 and Feb 2020.A story from Village Kanara, Bongaigaon district which was carried out by Centre of North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) …

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on October 24, 2022 at 7:30pm — No Comments

We were trying to teach so much to the people who already know

( Cho Naga for Foundation, Cameroon is a part of Constellation’s Go Girl multi-country project since April 2021 on engaging communities particularly girls in prevention of teenage pregnancies. Read more about the project https://the-constellation.org/go-girl/ ) https://cnfoundation.ch/

Doreen Bieri's team works…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on September 23, 2022 at 7:00pm — No Comments

The worst thing you can do is give a sense of dependency

Sir Ratan Tata, shares his insights on the way forward with communities in India. Hearing him I could not help feel that this is what the world needs, not only India. I took some notes. Watch the video from 4:02 mins- 3 mins of your time!

1. The worst thing you can do to a country is to give everyone a sense of dependency on an outside force. You have to create sustainability that is…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on August 20, 2022 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Igniting the dreams of children

At  Global Fund for Children. we have introduced Constellation’s SALT and community life competence process (CLCP) to some NGO partners in India. SALT helps the NGO staff to step back and create space for the children, youth and community to carve their own path based on their strengths. Recently I visited to learn from the communities of two NGOs – Avani (Maharashtra State) and Rural Aid (West Bengal state)

Weaving the common dream- Outsiders tend to offer project…

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on May 15, 2022 at 11:00am — No Comments

Shared organisation dream- a driving force for the staff

In my role at Global Fund for Children, I am fortunate to work  with NGO Avani. I facilitated Community life competence process (CLCP) at organizational level with some members of Avani team- deeply listening to them and learning about their individual and organizational strengths and gifts they have. When I facilitated a common dream with them, the dream was in the form of text, drawing and song. …

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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on March 18, 2022 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Villagers keep their village clean and safe

A sunny,  winter morning in Dec 2021... a tiny, remote village which I visited with the Faith Foundation team. Umsawriang Village is inhabited primarily by Khasis, an indigenous community, in Ri Bhoi District, rural Meghalaya (India).  

We met the…
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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on January 7, 2022 at 11:30am — No Comments

Fr Joe: there will never be another like you

Kumta, a remote place in Karnataka... my first exposure to SALT during a learning event. There were a few sessions where the facilitator asked us to sit together as staff from organizations. As I had come alone, facilitator suggested I sit with  Fr Joe who was the lone one from his organization People in Need Foundation. He was my dad's generation but was soon to become my teammate and guide in the SALT journey. As our lives intersected…
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Added by Rituu B. Nanda on December 23, 2021 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

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