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The Constellation
Constellation welcomes new board members
The Constellation is happy to welcome its new board. April Foster (Kenya), Sirinate Piyajitpirat (Thailand), Phil Forth (UK), Louis Marie Butoyi (Burundi/Belgium) and Sanghamitra Iyengar (India) are joining Jean-Louis Lamboray who will continue his service as Constellation chair and MariJo Vazquez.
More about the new Constellation Board
Re-organizing support to the Constellation
The Constellation needs your help. The Constellation Support Team is going through rough financial times, just like many country teams. Since a few months, the team members are volunteering their time to continue to fulfill the necessary support functions. We know that any crisis can be turned in an opportunity. Therefore, we are taking this financial crisis as an opportunity to revisit our dream for the Constellation, and to reconsider how we can organise ourselves to be more resilient. We need your thoughts and advice in further shaping the possibilities.
Excited about Community Action Day?
Imagine what would happen if every single community in the world would discuss in depth the local issues of concern? It would identify its strengths and plan to take action together based on these strengths. It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Community Action Day (CAD) this year between 12th to 18th September 2011. For instance, young people in Bandung, Indonesia, will discuss their dreams. Jeanne d’Arc is facilitating the day with school staff in DRC. Ukeme will meet with 20 community members in Benin to build their dream and develop an action plan. Tricia from Guyana and Rafique from India will facilitate the day with their own family.
You want to participate? Join us on Ning or on Facebook
Conferences
Sharing of Community Life Competence experiences at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
The Constellation and four country teams (Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Philippines) presented the Community Life Competence Process at a booth at the ICAAP in Busan. About 100 people attended the oral presentation “Reverse Development - When Dutch NGOs learned from Thai NGOs on Interfaith Work and HIV/AIDS” but no one attended the Constellation friends meeting. “People who are usually interested in the Constellation approach are those working closely with communities, many of which didn’t come to the conference because of visa issues and a lack of scholarships,” explained Usa.
More about the Constellation’s presence at the ICAAP
International SALT Visit
Learning with Communities in Yogyakarta – February 15, 2012
Your place is still free !
A group of international and Indonesian participants are joining for three days of SALT with communities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. MSM, Transgender and Women against domestic violence have made tremendous progress on their inclusion in society. The participants of the SALT visit will be learning with members of those communities – and are likely to go home inspired with new ideas for their own communities and lives.
The Yogyakarta SALT visit is one of the series of four International SALT visits, organized throughout 2012, in four different locations, the other three being: Guyana, Francophone Guinée, and India.
More about the International SALT Visit in Indonesia
Blog of the month
Indeed there is another way
Marie Chorr shares her experience with the Malaria Competence approach in the Gambia since she first was introduced to the approach in 2005.
More about Malaria Competence on the blog of Marie
Upcoming events
Global Knowledge Fair, India: 20 - 24 November 2012, in Chennai
India Competence together with the Constellation team will facilitate a Knowledge Fair in Chennai. Read more
Join us!
You can join us at any event, as well as the events of the national facilitation teams. Please contact Marlou de Rouw at derouwm[@]gmail.com.