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05 June 2019
Post No. 94
What’s on at CENFACS in June 2019
The following selected initiatives (selected for public domain) are amongst those which will make the end of Spring of Life Renewal and the start of Summer of Happiness at CENFACS in June 2019.
• World Anti-poverty System (WAS): Centre staging Climate Issues in WAS (Global advocacy project)
• Quadranscentennial Year and Project, Act No. 3: CENFACS as Quadranscentennial Creation (Celebration project)
• Create and Innovate within the context of Economic Uncertainty with Jmesci project (Creation and innovation project)
• Thanksgiving Days (Supporters’ project)
Note: The above initiatives are only a selection of what we have planned for June 2019. We may introduce new initiatives and or upgrade the existing ones depending on the circumstances as we have from time to time to respond to emergencies and urgent humanitarian issues. In which case, we shall let you know.
Also, in every work we do to try to help reduce poverty, there is always a cost to bear. If you could help alleviate some of our costs, we would more acknowledge your support than just appreciate your gesture.
The above is our indicative plan for June 2019. Within this plan, what is on at CENFACS for this week?
The Week’s Contents
• Jmesci: Creating and Innovating within the Context of Economic Uncertainty
• Poverty Environment programme: Responsibility on Clean Air
• Quadranscentennial Year and Project: Act No. 3: CENFACS as a Quadranscentennial Creation
… and much more!
Key Messages
~ June Month of Environmental and Sustainable Creative Initiatives (jmesci): Create and Innovate in the context of Economic Uncertainty
Individual and collective creations, in the ways of improving lives through the conception of fresh ideas and the implementation of practical ideas to escape from poverty and hardships as well as foster a better environment and sustainability, are CENFACS’ area of interest. We create all over the year and life; however June is the month for us to acknowledge our environmental and sustainable makings.
June is the month of Creative Economic Development at CENFACS with creation and innovation on the main menu: creation for researching and developing fresh ideas to reduce poverty, particularly extreme poverty; innovation for making these ideas come true, transformable into practical environmental and sustainable initiatives and actions.
Put it simply, Jmesci is just about finding out ways of engineering creations relating to the environment and sustainability in order to further reduce poverty and improve the quality of life.
This year’s Jmesci is about Create and Innovate within the context of Economic Uncertainty. Further details about this are given in the Main Development of this Week’s Contents.
To support CENFACS’ creative economic development month, contact CENFACS.
Besides Jmesci, we have planned other activities and projects.
~ Poverty Environment Programme (PEP): Human Responsibility on Clean Air
This week, we are raising awareness and remind ourselves about human responsibility on the environment (HRE) to echo the message of the United Nations World Environment Day on 05 June 2019. The HRE, which is part of CENFACS’ Poverty Environment programme, is an initiative to support the WED’s theme of Air Pollution this week.
As one cannot reduce air pollution in one day only, we will continue to raise awareness of this pollution issue through HRE. Our work on this matter aims at going beyond awareness by working with local people to find creative and innovative ways of reducing air pollution. In doing so, HRE is an exploratory path to develop sustainable solutions that reduce both poverty and air pollution.
For details about the PEP, go to http://cenfacs.org.uk/development-programmes/
To raise awareness of human responsibility on the environment in order to help reduce both poverty and air pollution with CENFACS, please contact CENFACS.
~ Quadranscentennial Year and Project: Act No. 3: CENFACS as a Quadranscentennial Creation
The Act No. 3 of our Q Year and Project, entitled as CENFACS as Quadranscentennial Creation has been dealt with as planned. This Act explains the challenges, ups and downs in our journey which lasted 25 years. To survive those challenges, ups and downs creation was at the centre of action.
Throughout this month of creative economic development we will continue to learn and draw lessons from CENFACS as a Q Creation. We shall explore in looking at the existential character of CENFACS by combining its existence and essence.
We shall even take further in looking at the quadranscentennial legacy of CENFACS in terms of innovations. It is not enough to create (conceive a fresh idea). One should also aims at putting ideas to work, to the market (that is innovation). Innovation is Act No. 3.1 So, Q Innovations are like the introduction or implementation new ideas that can have a Q dimension.
We would like to thank those who supported the Creation Act and hope they will do the same for the Q Innovation.
For further details on both Act 3.0 (CENFACS as a Q Creation) and 3.1 (CENFACS as a Q innovation), please contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
~ Art and Design for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development
As part of the creative economic development month, we also run Art and Design for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development as a project. One of the activities related to this project for this year would be to construct and post cards or objects as expressions of stop air pollution to echo the World Environmental Day’s celebratory theme, as well as ways of sustainably managing land to resonate the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
So, those who wish and want can design a post card or object to feature the following:
⇒ Reduction or end of air pollution
⇒ Sustainable management of lands
⇒ Recovering and restoration of degraded lands
To support and or enquire about Art and Design for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development, contact CENFACS.
~ Protection of Poor People’s Creations or Creative Works
This first week of June is as well about rethinking ways of protecting poor people’s creative and innovative works. This is knowingly that poor people do not always have or have enough money to pay for protection of their makings.
It is not enough for them to create and or innovate; they need as well to protect their makings in the form of copyrights and other protection that other creators and innovators do enjoy. One can think of the use of the internet and online technologies how they made it easier for some people sometimes to violate poor people’s creative and innovative works and rights.
So, as part of the creative economic development we would like to work together and find out the best possible and affordable ways of protecting poor people’s creative and innovative works.
To support and or enquire about CENFACS’ initiative on the Protection of Poor People’s Creations and Innovations, contact CENFACS.
~ Support Sustainable Initiatives in Congo-Brazzaville, Mali and Togo
Our request to support Raped Women in Congo-Brazzaville, Children with Safe Drinking Water in Togo and Young Deaf People in Mali; continues this month.
So far, we have received positive reactions which are promising. And we would like to thank those who positively reacted to our support communication. We hope that their reactions will be converted into concrete actions or simply support.
Additionally, on the support page of CENFACS, there are many ways one can support or enhance the lives of those in most need. Please, have a look at
As we previously argued, we expect this support message to be passed onto those who can help. If you have already passed it, we thank you for your care. If you have not done it, we would be grateful if you could support these deserving causes by passing the message.
CENFACS is prepared to discuss in depth these project proposals.
Main Developments
• Create and Innovate in the context of Economic Uncertainty
• • This Year’s Jmesci
The context of economic uncertainty is a framework in which an economy is characterised by multiple indecisions in terms of the precise direction it will take. The indecisive situation affects all the players in the economy, in particular but not exclusively the poor people and poor organisations.
There could be many scenarios of economic uncertainty. One of them is when an economy (like the UK) is trying to exit or remain in an economic bloc (such as the EU). In these circumstances, there could be inability to accurately know or predict the future.
Uncertainty can happen as well when countries transit from dictatorial governance to liberal democracy system as the newly arrived to the power may not be prepared to deal with challenge, just as they may not know what is in accounting books. This uncertainty, unpreparedness or lack of knowledge about the contents in the books can impact every sector and economic players including small community and voluntary organisations.
In times of inability to accurately know or predict the future like of EU exit, creating and innovating are the keys to continue to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. This is because in times of uncertainty, some needs change, other ones emerge and other more remain unchanged.
In uncertain times like economic one, people in most pressing needs could find themselves in a situation which in their ability to meet basic life-sustaining needs, therefore to reduce poverty, could be shrunk. Likewise, they could have their purchasing power reduced or increased. So, creating and innovating in difficult times like of economic uncertainty are keys to continue to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
Finding out ways of engineering creations and implementing innovations to deal with uncertainty of the time in order to further reduce poverty and improve the quality of life, will be the focus for 2019 Jmesci. How to deal with economic uncertainty? We are going to deal with this in two ways.
⇒ Week beginning 03 June 2019: Creativity in uncertain economic times
⇒ Week beginning 10 June 2019: Innovation in uncertain economic times
• • Including other environmental activities into Jmesci
Our month of creation (of thinking up new things) and innovation (of converting our thoughts into tangible outcomes) revolves around global, national, local and sustainable issues and events of the month as well.
Examples of June world and local environmental events and days of the month are:
√ The United Nations World Environment Day held today on 05/06/2019 under the theme of “Air Pollution”
√ The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2019 to be held on 17/06/2019 with China as a host country for this year. The Day will convene under the slogan, “Let’s grow the future together”.
√ Croydon Environmental Fair to be held on 08/06/2019 at Wandle Park in Croydon (UK).
√ Any other significant inclusive sustainable awareness raising and participation events scheduled for June 2019 and that help poor people.
To support and or engage to Jmesci, contact CENFACS.
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With many thanks
