Report by Clement Chacha and Margaret Musumbi

The African Albinism Network (AAN) is a Voice grantee for the Link and Learn project. The grantee aims to promote human rights advocacy the dignity and welfare of persons with albinism and their family. Standing Voice is AAN’s right holder which is based in Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria. Standing Voice has established a training center named “Umoja Training Center”. The Umoja Training Centre (UTC) is a community space where…

(en français ci-dessous)

To reconnect with people inspired by SALT, members of BelCompetence (The Constellation Belgium) regularly cycle all over Belgium. The following is taken from the report of their October bike tour.

Claude and Bernadette tell us about the floods that occured in July. They both experienced them very closely and their consequences still fill their daily lives. They tell us about the efficient and warm solidarity that was…

(en français ci-dessous)

Dear Friends of The Constellation,

We are pleased to share with you The Constellation 2020 Report: https://the-constellation.org/the-constellation-report-2020-english/…

The circle is inspired by the Dialogues of the quantum physicist David Bohm, a contemporary and friend of Einstein. It is a process of introspection and exchange with others. There is no search for convergence with the visions of the other members of the circle, but simply the expression of resonances. By searching in our own depths for what is alive (which we may never have seen or touched before), we inspire each other. The more multiple and diverse the visions are, the more contradictions…

Jean-Louis Lamboray gave a series of seminars to social service students of the Potsdam University, inviting SALT-CLCP facilitators from Belgium, England, France, India, Kenya, Spain, Thailand, and The Netherlands: “An authentic learning community unfolded as we shared about SALT and CLCP, so we decided to continue. Join us!”

Bellow are the minutes of our first session about storytelling and SALT on Friday, the 5th of February.

With Celicia,…

The movie is available here:

https://vimeo.com/asyouopenyoureyes/oneofusen

Panel:

David and Jessica: the movie makers (Visual…

To meet Liza is to take the pulse of a story of transformation that begins in her, splashes on her family and impacts her vision of the world and her way of being an actress in it. For the full article, visit the cooperative blog of Belcompetence - Constellation Belgium: https://constellationbelgium.org/blog-cooperatif-2/

“... from the moment the fogged glasses find a little light, you see things differently…

Yezeed is an employee at an agency that offers services to refugees. He is a former refugee of Sudan himself. He shares the story of the ups and downs of the project he facilitates: Actiegroep Eigen Huis (pressure group "each of us his own house”).

It started after the end of the SALT training in Hilversum, Yezeed says. With a few facilitators, we made a SALT visit to a group of refugees with a temporary residence permit. They arrived in the Netherlands approx. 2 years ago from…

I publish this story in the behalf of Kees Lafeber. It is also avaiable here: https://www.facebook.com/457271687691239/posts/1876640895754304/

“In the last four years, I’ve spent a lot of time in Maluku, Indonesia, where my wife’s parents are from. I’m retired and a photographer, so I spend a lot of time clicking pictures in the community. Through this, I noticed the massive waste problem in the…

Depuis le début de 2017, les facilitateurs du Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) et de la Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) soutiennent l'approche SALT/CLCP dans 120 villages de 3 districts de l'Assam : Kamrup Rural, Bongaigaon et Udalguri. La Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) effectuera de mars 2018 à janvier 2019 une évaluation contrôlée randomisée.

En dépit des difficultés, les facilitateurs font un travail formidable : « Tout va bien et…

Since the beginning of 2017, facilitators from the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) and the Voluntary Health Association of Assam (VHAA) support the SALT/CLCP approach in 120 villages in 3 districts of Assam: Kamrup Rural, Bongaigaon, and Udalguri. The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) will be evaluating the intervention using a randomized controlled trial from March 2018 to January 2019.

Despite challenges, facilitators are doing tremendous work:…

(newsletter co-created with participants of GLF)

Joram Tibasiimwa, the Chairman National Council for Older Persons

“You (delegates) must have observed during your SALT visits that older persons have potential to work…

16^th October 2017

GLF Newsletter Three document 

Contents…

15th October 2017

GLF Newsletter Two 

Contents:

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Global Learning Festival Newsletter

GLF Newsletter: one (with focus on the work with older people in Uganda)…

I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.

In March 2017, a learning festival was held in Kibaha, and ten communities that had been engaged in the project Afya Kibaha 2025 were invited to come and share their experiences. During the festival, video clips from different communities and their projects were shown. Through these and the testimonies of how the Intergenerational project had helped children, youths and older persons, all were able to…

I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.

A community that once doubted that CLCP was ever going to work is now enjoying the benefit of the whole concept of CLC.  Community member now plan to expand their project and move together to a next level. This year, Bamba village had the privilege of being visited by guests from Uganda and India.…

From the Constellation 2016 Report, p. 40.

En français dans le rapport 2016, p. 40.

Organisation: HelpAge…

I publish this post on behalf of Judith Bagachwa.

Afya Kibaha 2025

HelpAge International Tanzania, is implementing a health project in Kibaha region (Afya Kibaha 2025). In this project, about ten communities have been trained on the importance of health issues in communities and how best they can improve on their living lifestyles and also come up with innovative ideas on how they can use their available resources and become independent.

In 2016, ten…

Here it is a new document to spread the word about the Constellation. Enjoy!

Please contact me: marie@communitylifecompetence.org, if you would like to receive the document in high resolution.

Our gratitude to Zen Nguyen for the layout and to Vittoria Dentes, Gafsa’s Health Platform, Laurence Gilliot, Sebastien…