SALT Visit; fostering democracy and heterogenity

[wiwin winarni]

It was began at June 2009 when indocompetence members and UNFPA conduted SALT visit to Manonjaya sub district at west java province of Indonesia. The uniqueness of SALT as approach emerging from the way we introduced one and another. No need to introduce me as a center of group but how I concern to other member;s features. I was surprises thta my neighbour partner appreciate me so by introducing me as if I was a hero. That's great and cool!!

I was motivated to entertain my self to find only goodthings and strengths of other group members and finally found that SALT fostering group members to speak up freely and celebreting heterogenity of our features as human being. As Bapak Oding (representative of adult group) said, in fact SALT is democracy that evebody could speak freely and no one judging whether it was right or wrong. This all personal experience and learning.

[Jean-Louis Lamboray]

Chandra,

Maybe I am the one who needs support; That rings so true to me!. The support is mutual, that is my personal experience too!

JL

[chandra nurhasz]

That is true, Teh. Now the challenge is how to apply it into our life and or our work. So I will be waiting for your story dealing your work experiences, may be when you went for supervision & monitoring visit to districts or our implementing partners (IPs).

I'm telling you, I have changed the phrase underlined to be 'support visit'. For me it's more comfortable and showed equality. Because may be I'm the one who need support from partners. So the visit is about support each others.

cn

[Gaston]

Thank you Wiwin for your wonderful postings. I can read that you truly understand and apply SALT. As we all know, it's not easy to keep this attitude alive. Please keep on sharing your personal experiences. It's inspiring!