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Here is a list of the communities that had a stall in the Market Place. We would like to make the list complete so let us know in the comments below if we need to add your organisation/group and photograph to this section.
aidsfocus.ch, Switzerland
Beyond Social Services, Singapore
Burundi Competence
Constellation Business Offering
The Constellation GST
EMPHASIS, Care India
Heroes Project, New Delhi, India
PLAN, Sri Lanka
Siaap Rural Youth Project, India
Tamil Nadu Transgender Society, India
TCI (Transport Corporation of India) Foundation
UNAIDS Nepal
Uttara Karnataka Mahila Okkoota, India
aidsfocus.ch from Switzerland
Helena's story on this site 'Focus on life and giving' will give you a very good feel for the power of Story Telling.
You can find out more about aidsfocus.ch and Memory Work at http://www.aidsfocus.ch/
BEYOND Social Services, Singapore
Helena Zweifel and Barbara Muller presented aidsfocus.ch. This is a network of NGOs whose members are active in memory work. Memory work is a methodology that evolved in Africa in support of people living with HIV and AIDS. Through working with their memories, people find their strength to go on with their lives.Helena commented on her experience with the Market Place: "The Market Place was a very good experience. We showed people our toolkit, which is a collection of our learnings. We wanted to share it with others. Our discussions gave me a very good chance to talk about it. They were asking questions and sharing experiences. "We did something similar." "We should try this with our people." "Do you think that it will work with….?" There were lots of questions like that. It was very motivating."
Here is one view of a visit to aidsfocus. ch, "Kokila and I were very moved by Helena’s project on Memory Book. The idea of helping someone create a memory book, so that they could leave behind something of their own creation after they pass on, was at once powerful and moving. Not only does it leave a tangible record of someone’s love for their family and friends, it also gives them a chance to heal and unburden."
Burundi Competence joins the Constellation to say thank you to Solidarité Protestante and its partners, who, after this first step are determined to adopt the CLCP in the development and management of all their programs and projects
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Burundi Compétences est une des constellations qui ont beaucoup appris avec les expériences des camionneurs de longues distances, qui ont appris également des expériences des hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec des hommes face à leurs défis et enfin qui ont appris des expériences des personnes infectées ou affectées par le VIH/Sida.
Au Marché de Chennai, Burundi Compétences a partagé sa toute récente expérience de facilitation des compétences en partenariat avec les organisations basées sur la Foi. Les intervenants dans la lutte contre le sida se plaignent souvent que les confessions religieuses freinent leurs actions de prévention. Même les professionnels qui travaillent au quotidien avec les Prêtres, les Imams et les Pasteurs ont cette appréhension qu’il ne leur est pas facile d’impliquer les représentants de Dieu dans des activités de lutte contre le sida.
Pourtant, au cours de nos activités de facilitation, le rêve et l’auto-évaluation nous ont fait découvrir une réalité différente, où il se dégage beaucoup d’expériences de ces leaders religieux dans la lutte contre le sida, un grand effort de tolérance par rapport aux approches mises en œuvre par les laïcs et une grande envie d’apprendre des autres. Ainsi, ont-ils sans tarder, initié des ateliers d’échanges d’expériences avec les personnes vivants avec le VIH, ce qui a été apprécié par ces dernières, émues de voir ce regard nouveau des confessions religieuses à leur égard. Le CLCP s’est manifesté comme un accélérateur de mise en œuvre de bonnes résolutions qu’ont les confessions religieuses en leur faisant découvrir leurs forces et les attentes de leurs fidèles.
Burundi Compétences se joint à la Constellation pour dire merci à la Solidarité Protestante et ses partenaires qui, après ce premier pas, sont déterminés à adopter le CLCP dans le développement ou gestion de l’ensemble de leurs programmes.
Constellation Business Offering
Burundi Competence is one of the Constellations that learned a lot from the experiences of long-distance truckers who, in turn, have learned from the experiences of men who have sex with men in their combat against discrimination and finally which has learned also from the experiences of people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
In the market place organized in Chennai, Burundi Competence shared its recent experience of facilitation of community competence in partnership with faith-based organizations. Stakeholders in the fight against AIDS often complain that their religion hinders prevention efforts. Even professionals who work daily with priests, imams and pastors have this fear that it is not easy to involve representatives of God in activities against AIDS.
However, during our facilitation activities, dreams and Self Assessment helped us to discover a different reality. We found that religious leaders had a wealth of experiences in the fight against AIDS, we discovered tolerance towards the approaches implemented by others and a great desire to learn from outside their organizations. Thus, they immediately initiated workshops to exchange experiences with people living with HIV, who showed heartfelt appreciation for the consideration shown by religious leaders towards them. The CLCP played the role of an accelerator in implementing good resolutions of religious denominations by having them discover their strengths and needs of their followers.
Burundi Competence
The purpose of BEYOND Singapore is to curb delinquency among disadvantaged young people and their families and to move them beyond their problems."We want to develop young people who respect the law, value education and seek to become responsible persons. We believe that people have the ability to help themselves and can successfully reach their goals despite their disadvantages."Here is how Ani describes his visit to BEYOND. "BEYONDS’s work in Singapore helps create spaces for young people from lower economic backgrounds to re-energize themselves to go to school, hone their talents in music, dance, writing, or sports, and gives them a sense of community and care. Jason, who is also from Singapore, presented his work with ‘Vertical Kampung,’ that recognizes how our villages (Kampung) have shrunk drastically and have arranged themselves vertically in skyscrapers and in apartments where we often don’t see our neighbours, let alone talk to them. Jason helps in drawing out volunteers and helps them design their work in creating a community out of this asphalt jungle! In short, as he says, he helps volunteers volunteer!"
You can find out more about BEYOND at: http://www.beyond.org.sg/
Constellation Global Support Team (GST)
This is Ani's impression of this stall: 'Joel, Rebecca and Boris are working on a new model of extending the CLCP approach to business communities as well. They see business establishments – big and small – as adding to the strength of the triad we are familiar with: the Constellation, NGOs, Communities. In their very creative pictographic representation of their idea, these four entities were like the star fish on the sea. When integrated together with the CLCP approach, they can together tackle issues, nurture dreams and rise and grow and become actual stars on the sky! Kokila was fascinated by this imagery and shared with me that there was nothing more powerful than a picture that speaks clearly! '
If you would like to learn more about the Constellation's Business Offering, you can look at the Ning Group 'CLCP and the private sector' at http://aidscompetence.ning.com/group/clcpandtheprivatesector. If you are interested, you are more than welcome to join the group.
EMPHASIS Care India
If you would like more details on the work programme of the Global Support Team visit https://sites.google.com/a/communitylifecompetence.org/the-gst-intranet/
If you would like to contribute your time and energy to the GST, you will be more than welcome. All you need to do is to contact Marlou.
The Constellation is made up of communities from all over the world. The Constellation’s Support Team (GST) is stimulating and connecting those stars. Up to the end of 2011 this team, consisting of five people, had its base in an office in Chang Mai, Thailand. We were doing our work with a lot of joy and satisfaction. However, we did our work in 2012 in a very different way. The work was being done not by a small team, but by over 40 people spread across the globe. Each of us contributes our time and talents from within our possibilities.You can read more details of why and how the change took place in 2012 in Marlou's story of Local Reponse on this site.
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Heroes Project, New Delhi, India
Indonesia Competence
Heroes Project delivers results across three main service areas that we call Lead + Affirm, Engage + Inspire, and Measure + Report.
You can find more details at http://www.heroesprojectindia.org/
The team at Heroes Project works with various funders on communications, advocacy and behaviour change programmes that support HP’s organisational mission: To leverage the power of societal leaders and media to improve public health and social well-being.
Heroes Project’s idea of having public personalities support and endorse projects, Saksham project’s method of integrating learnings from their HIV/AIDS intervention projects with both women in sex work as well as gay and bisexual men was utterly fascinating.
PLAN Sri Lanka
SIAAP Rural Youth Project
Tamil Nadu Transgender Development Society
TCI Foundation
UNAIDS Nepal
Utttara Karnataka Mahila Okkoota, Karnataka, India
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