Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
19 June 2019
Post No. 96
The Week’s Contents
• Summer of Happiness – In Focus: Happiness in a Changing Climate
• Arts & Design Project: Unknown and Unnamed Artists and Designers
• Creative Economic Development Month: Green Creations and Innovations
… and much more!
Key Messages
~ Summer of Happiness – In Focus: Happiness in a Changing Climate
Life Renewal season will end soon with the official end of Spring while Summer of Happiness (SH) will start, although there are still life renewing projects that are on-going. For every of these projects delivered so far, we hope you have found a user-friendly and -centred relief.
For this year, the focus for SH will be on Happiness in a Changing Climate. As climate change continues to affect and impact all the beings’ life, humans too are not exempted. Climate change has affected the way in which we eat, dress, house, travel, and pass our holidays, as well as the way we feel (happy or unhappy) and our state of mind.
To take into account these good or bad feeling effects and impacts, we are going to insert into happiness the new factors determining our state of happiness today. So, our Happiness Projects will be impregnated with changing climate that affects our happiness. In other words, we shall establish the relationships, if any, between CENFACS Happiness Projects and climate change.
Under the Main Development section of this post, we have provided further details about this first key message.
~ Arts & Design Project: Unknown and Unnamed Artists and Designers of Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development
Artists and designers play an active role in helping to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. So, this week we are working on some of the works carried out by artists and designers especially those from small scale and charitable backgrounds, the local arts and designs products and services undertaken by local people and communities sometimes to make ends meet.
These kinds of work can include those carried out by poor families, children, young people and those who are left out of the economic growth or upturn. Additionally, there are as works carried out by unknown and unnamed artists and designers who may be amateurs or not professionals or not just celebrities.
All these small pieces of art and design works can help relieve poverty and enhance the process of sustainable development.
So, this week we are continuing our Arts and Design project by looking at the contribution that unknown and unnamed artists and designers are making in reducing poverty and hardships as well as enhancing sustainable development.
~ Creative Economic Development month: Green Creations and Innovations
Our Creative Economic Development month is still taking place as scheduled. In the first week, our focus was on creation; that is on making things and thinking up new ideals of helping to reduce poverty and hardships. This was and has been carried out through arts and design activities.
The second of week of the creative month was concentrated on innovation; that is on converting these new ideas into project proposals, on deploying these fresh thoughts, products and services to effectively reduce poverty and hardships. It was about making our dream of the relief of poverty and hardships to come true or become a reality. Again, this was conducted under arts and design activities to innovate for poverty relief and sustainable development.
In this third week of the creative month, we would like to recall the third component or green or environmental character of the Jmesci (June Month of Environmental and Sustainable Creative Initiatives). We are doing it to reply to some comments made which tended to look at Jmesci only from the creation and innovation perspectives.
Jmesci is also and certainly about green or environmental initiatives. These are the kinds of makings which do not pollute or degrade or even deplete the environment. Green or environmental initiatives do not cause harm to the environment. They achieve sustainable development and increase environmental restoration.
To support the Creative Economic Development month and the week about green or environmental aspect of Jmesci, please contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
~ ReLive Issue No. 11 (2019 Edition): Spring Gifts of Renewing Lives in Burundi, Madagascar and Niger for the Flood Victims
Our Spring Appeal to donate £5 to any of the 14 Renewal Gifts to create 20 Reliefs in the above mentioned countries will come to an end in a week. For those who would like to directly support but did not have the opportunity to do so, they can do it now.
This appeal can also be supported indirectly by passing the message onto those who may be in position to support.
To support, contact CENFACS directly or go to: http: cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
~ CENFACS’ Be.Africa Think-together –
In Focus: Relationships between War (Insecurity), Climate Change and Health (via Ebola Virus) in the Democratic Republic of Congo
As the Ebola outbreak continues to claim its victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), particularly on the border between DRC and Uganda, CENFACS is working on the relationships between war (or insecurity), climate change and health (threatened by the Ebola virus).
We are looking at how far war or insecurity can deny a legitimate State its statutory power and governing tools to control its borders as well as diseases or virus (such as the outbreak of Ebola) within the context of climate change.
You can tell CENFACS’ Be.Africa Think-together project what you think.
Better Africa (or Be.Africa) Think-together is an initiative of ideas and actions from CENFACS on matters related to Africa, in particular but not exclusively to Francophone Africa. It used to be CENFACS Be.Africa Forum (or a get-together for ideas and actions for a better Africa).
~ Quadranscentennial (“Q”) Happiness
Our “Q” Year and Project continue in the season of happiness. In the context of this season, we will be looking at ways of making happiness to last or sustain.
In Summer, we talk about happiness and happiness season at CENFACS; but happiness is not only about one season or one time of the year. Happiness is about everything, in every time and every occasion of life. It is about what we do in life, at home, at work, in school, in our family and during holyday.
Happiness seen in this way should be a lasting or sustainable gift that links the current generations to the future ones. In the context of “Q” project, we want to talk about happiness that lasts 25 years or more. That is “Q” happiness.
From this perspective, we are talking through happiness projects and programmes, which we can look at the legacies in terms of “Q” happiness outcomes over the last 25 years or beyond.
So, “Q” Happiness is about how CENFACS tried to bring happiness in the last years in the life of those in need. “Quadranscentennialising” happiness in this way is a powerful way of looking at the legacies of happiness.
For further details about Quadranscentennial (“Q”) Happiness, please contact CENFACS.
Main Development
• Summer of Happiness: Happiness in a Changing Climate
~ Life Renewal Season to Happiness Season
Jmesci (June Month of Environmental and Sustainable Creative Initiatives) and Arts and Design Project are the projects that have made the last part of Spring 2018 programme. Both projects make our Creative Economic Development month.
In practice, Jmesci is the project that is ending our Spring Relief or Life Renewal season to start Summer of Happiness. After creating and innovating for poverty relief and sustainable development, we shall enjoy the sunshine of Summer with Happiness and Peace.
We would forward to Summer, although the warm weather has already started.
~ What is Summer for CENFACS’ Users and Beneficiaries?
Summer is a period of the warm sunny weather that we would like to associate with it at CENFACS. It is the time of happiness that we all expect, after a long period of full time work and education. We look forward to a break after such a long time of routine working life, especially as most of CENFACS’ projects and programmes are framed around the school timetable to suit and reflect the needs and living patterns of our users and beneficiaries. This is despite that the fact that during Summer people are still working to keep their households and the economy running.
~ In focus for this Summer: Happiness in a Changing Climate
Generally, it is expected Summer to be warm and sunny. In recent times or decades, Summer is not all the time warmer and sunnier. The climate (that is the average atmosphere conditions prevailing in a particular region) is now much variable to the extent that summers are now not always hot dry.
Yet, most people want warm, sunny and happy summers. Those who can afford can plan to go to destinations in places and locations where they can enjoy the summer weather. Those who cannot afford, like many of our users, may not be able to choose but to be subject of the changing climate.
To support those victims of changing climate or climate change over Summer, the focus of our Summer of Happiness will be on how to have happiness in a changing climate or climate change over Summer.
So, the key note of our theme for Summer of Happiness will be how to create, enjoy and sustain happiness in a changing climate. This is whether we take holidays or work or even study over the Summertime.
To do that, we shall provide Happiness Tips and Hints in a Changing Climate. We will provide them through the Summer initiatives below.
~ Summer-of-Happiness Programmes
Summer Programme at CENFACS is mainly made of two sets or broad areas of projects for and with Multi-dimensionally Poor Children, Young People and Families; which consists of:
Happiness Projects (Part I) and
Appeal Projects or Humanitarian Relief to Africa (Part 2).
Besides this main Summer seasonal regular feature, we have also planned other initiatives as side menus. We shall gradually release the contents of these Summer projects as we progress during Summer 2019.
Our development calendar/planner already indicates what is planned for July and August 2019. However, should anybody want to find out more, they are welcome to contact CENFACS.
~ Summer 2019 Programmes, Projects and Events (Summer calendar/planner)
8 Projects, 1 Programme: 9 Ways of Helping to Reduce and End Poverty as well as Making this Summer 2019 of Happiness in a Changing Climate
June
1) Thanksgiving days or Supporters’ project
July
2) All-in-one Impact Feedback, Project Supporters’ Experience: Projects and Programmes Monitoring, Evaluation & Review
3) Seven Days of Development in July 2019 (Summer Festival): How Democratic Transition Can Transform Poor People’s Lives
4) Financial Update (Individual Capacity Development Programme resource): How to Manage Finances in Economic Uncertainty
July & August
5) CYPFs (Children, Young People and Families) Summer Programme (Part I): Humanitarian Relief – Appeal Projects
6) CYPFs (Children, Young People and Families) Summer Programme (Part II): Resources, Tools, Boosters & Tasters – Happiness Projects in a Changing Climate
7) Summer 2019 Run, Play & Vote to Reduce Poverty: Action-Results
8) CENFACS’ Poverty Relief League and Le Dernier Carré (the last Square of Poverty Relief) – Half Year Results and Outcomes
August
9) Summer Track, Trip and Trending
We hope you find a joyful, helpful and hopeful relief from the above programmes and projects on offer at CENFACS over this Summer!
For details or clarification about the above programmes and projects (including ways of accessing them), contact CENFACS.
Note: Although the above is scheduled for Summer 2019, we may slightly alter our initial plan and or introduce occasional initiatives to cope with the reality of the unpredictability and complexity of development situations (e.g. humanitarian and emergency situations), in which case we shall let you know as early as we can.
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