Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
26 January 2022
Post No. 232
The Week’s Contents
• Coronavirus-affected Children of Sub-Saharan Africa Desperately Need Your Help Right NOW
• Knowledge (K) Project
• Donor and Stewardship Development Programme
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Coronavirus-affected Children of Sub-Saharan Africa Desperately Need Your Help Right NOW
You can halve poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa; you can halve health poverty for and with children at risk of loosing their life because of COVID-19.
Evidence and studies shared by many infectious diseases epidemiologists show that children in Sub-Saharan Africa who are hospitalised with COVID-19 are dying at a rate far greater than children in other parts of the world (like United States and Europe). This is worrying situation since Africa (including its Sub-Saharan part) has a large number of COVID-19 unvaccinated people. Amongst these unvaccinated people are children.
Yet, it is possible to reduce or halve the number of hospitalised children dying with COVID-19. It is conceivable to halve poverty for and with children at risk of loosing their life because of the coronavirus pandemic and its variants.
With and on behalf of these children of Sub-Saharan Africa, we would like to ask for the halving of health poverty and hardships they are facing. CENFACS would like to work with those who are willing to halve poverty by supporting children who are in health emergency in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to meet their life-saving needs and dreams.
Under the Main Development section of this post, you will find some details about halving poverty for and with these children of Sub-Saharan Africa whose life is highly at risk.
• Knowledge (K) Project
Knowledge or ‘K ‘ Project is one of the new initiatives for 2022. The following two elements help to understand this project: its meaning and its activities.
• • What is ‘K’ Project?
It is a set of interdependent tasks that have a common goal of implementing CENFACS‘ dedication of year 2022 as a Year of Knowledge of People in Need. Through this project, we will try as much as we can to learn, know and understand the needs and expectations to solutions of those who need help and support to navigate their way out of poverty. To know people’s needs and expectations, we are going to work with them on a certain number of activities.
• • Activities and tasks relating to the ‘K’ Project
There will be twelve activities, each activity or task per month. Each ‘K’ activity will be announced at the beginning of each month. For this month, the ‘K’ activity is about knowing the consumption needs and habits of those in need so that they can be better supported on their road to reducing or ending consumption poverty and hardship.
• • Activity/Task 1 of the ‘K’ Project: Knowledge about the Consumption Needs of Those in Need
Being aware of and coming close to those in need can help to figure out their needs and wants. It can also help to know their circumstances and conditions of life. It can further promote some familiarity with the kinds of barriers and difficulties that block them in order to move out of consumption poverty.
After being familiar with their problems and barriers, one could find that it could be more appropriate (than without their knowledge) to work with them. This knowledge on them and consumption needs will help needs-based solutions so that they can improve their circumstances and consume what it takes to reduce poverty and hardships.
For any queries and enquiries about this project and this year’s dedication, please contact CENFACS.
• Donor and Stewardship Development Programme
This programme consists of two areas: donor solicitations and donor products to match these solicitations.
• • Donor Solicitations
We are continuing our solicitation to some of you as donors and /or stewards of poverty relief as follows.
• • • Solicitation relating to CENFACS’ Donor Development Plan
Under this plan, donors can build quality donor-relations with CENFACS.
Donor developers can help us in a number of ways such as:
σ Get the right people engaged to and informed about our work
σ Make our donations to grow over time
σ Help with technology like donor management software
σ Increase the levels of involvement from users
σ Help us to manage donors expectations
σ Assist us in donor-development goals and tasks such as event support
• • • Solicitation relating to CENFACS’ Donor Stewardship Programme
Under this programme, you can help us in the following:
σ Steward donors
σ Build and maintain relationships and communications with those who gave to our users or us a gift
σ Enable access to and use of donor stewardship tools.
• • Donor Development Products on Offer
We are offering the following products to those who would like to engage, develop their interest, to build bond and loyalty to CENFACS and CENFACS’ work.
We are offering to the donor development market a donor status to enable those who want to commit themselves on regular basis to giving or boosting their status as donor to have the opportunity to do so.
We are inviting those who want to commit themselves as funder or donor to do so. They can do it by supporting CENFACS with a silver donation, a great relief and a product booster.
• • • Free for Supporters: Silver Status
Silver status is the legacy of CENFACS’ “Quadranscentennial” Year (2019). Support our projects as you can or as you choose if you visit them or if you happen to be within the area of them. This will boost your support and help you to win a silver status as CENFACS’ Supporter in a CENFACS’ Knowledge Year.
Alternatively, you can fund CENFACS’ Knowledge Year to win the same status and continue CENFACS’ legacy.
• • • Want to provide Great Relief as a Supporter
You can provide great relief by becoming a regular giver or supporter, adding value to you support and boosting your support.
For example, at this challenging time of continuing coronavirus hardships, we need those who can provide that sort of relief to keep our action going and out of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Many individuals and organisations stepped in to support their good deserving causes during this storming time of the health crisis; you can do the same by supporting CENFACS.
Please contact CENFACS for details about becoming Great Reliever.
• • • Need to boost your support or stewardship as a Product Booster
You can choose a particular sustainable initiative or programme or even CENFACS as your boost product.
You can support 3 projects or 2 projects and CENFACS
You can support 3 programmes or 2 programmes and CENFACS.
This will elevate your position as a Project or Programme Funder or a Product Booster
For further details about boosting your support or stewardship, please contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• Gifts of Peace, Edition 2021-2022: Ends 31 January 2022
Gifts of Peace for Edition 2021-2022 are coming to an end on 31 January 2022. If you have not yet supported, there is still five days to go. You can still do something for poverty relief and for healing the scars of coronavirus pandemic and its associated effects.
Although the deadline for the Season of Donation for these gifts is 31 January 2022, we will still accept any donations made after this deadline as there are always pressing and urgent needs that desperately request support.
Please do not wait for the expiration of the deadline as the needs are pressing and urgent.
We know that many supporters of good causes have been affected by the adverse impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. However, for those who can please do not hesitate to support these noble causes of peace since the potential beneficiaries of them are doubly impacted by:
(a) The coronavirus pandemic which brought economic and social lockdowns
(b) The already extremely poor conditions in which they are living
Every support counts to help reduce and end extreme poverty.
For further details about these Gifts of Peace and or to support, go to http://cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
We look forward to your support. Thank you!
• 2022 All Year-round Projects (Triple Value Initiatives): Play, Run and Vote for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development
CENFACS’ Triple Value Initiatives, the All Year-round Projects, are now back for this year. You can play, run and vote to reduce poverty this year again.
The 2022 Edition of All Year-round Projects has kicked off.
You can Run or Organise a Run Activity to Reduce Poverty in 2022.
You can Play the CENFACS League for Poverty Relief.
You can Vote your 2022 African Poverty Relief Manager.
Before proceeding with one of the All Year Round Projects, it is good to speak to CENFACS. We can discuss together your plan or the way you want to participate or engage with these initiatives.
• • How CENFACS can help you to engage with Triple Value Initiatives
The following examples show what we can discuss together before you start.
Example 1: Run Themes
For example, let’s take Run to Reduce Poverty.
There are Run Themes. You can Run alone or Run as group or even Run for fun. You can do Seasonal Run or Run to raise money or even Run to raise awareness. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and its variants, there are health and safety restrictions that everyone who will be involved in this Run activity must follow.
There are ways of making your Run event simpler. To do that, you can contact CENFACS before you plan your event. CENFACS can help you to select your theme. You need to confirm the date and time with CENFACS.
There are other things to consider as well such as: location, engagement in activities, prizes (rewards for participants), COVID-19 health and safety issues, child protection policy if children are involved, insurance cover, budget, etc.
Example 2: Play Station Game
Let’s take another example: Playing CENFACS’ League for Poverty Relief
You can create your own play station game with CENFACS’ League and run your own tournament and matches. You can even involve colleagues, friends and families sharing the same passion about how the selected African countries are working to reduce poverty. You can group or rate these countries according to poverty reduction performance (showing which one comes on top, middle and bottom). You can as well use game theories. Like for Run activity, you must include the coronavirus pandemic health and safety measures and guidance.
Example 3: People to Watch
Let’s take the last example: Voting your Poverty Relief Manager
You can create your own list of 22 Top People to Watch throughout the year. One or two of them will be potentially the best managers of 2022. You can collect data and facts about them, follow their annual performance and vote the best between the two at the end.
While you are running or organising a run activity, playing the CENFACS’ League and voting your Manager of the Year 2022; we would like you to share with us and others your progress, news, events, experiences, stories and reports regarding these projects. The end product of your share will be a kind of Action-Results Report 2022.
• • What we would like to hear at the end of this process
We would like to hear from you the following three bests or stars of the year:
√ The Best African Countries of 2022 which will best reduce poverty
√ The Best African Global Games Runners of 2022
√ The Best African Development Managers of 2022
The deadline to tell us your bests or stars is 23 December 2022.
As we progress throughout the year, further information will be released for CENFACS’ Triple Value Initiatives.
Please remember, the early you start the better for you.
For more information about these projects, please contact CENFACS.
• Zero Income Deficit Campaign 2022 with a Focus on Balance Sheet
What is the net worth of my family/household accounts?
This year and Season of Light, we are keeping on working with the community members on income deficit issues so that they can better manage their income, particularly they can reduce the deficit (or excess of expenses over income or excess of liabilities over assets or even excess of outgoings over incomings) linked to their income.
In the last two weeks of work with them, the focus has been on net income or net deficit. This week, we are working on family balance sheet, particularly the net work account. What do we mean by family/household balance sheet and net worth?
• • Family/household Balance Sheet and Net Worth
Balance sheet and net worth as financial statements in business accounting can be adapted and used in family or household situation.
In the context of family/household, a balance sheet for a family or household would show both assets and liabilities for that family or household. The net worth for the same family or household would instead be the value of all the non-financial and financial assets owned by that family or household minus the value of all its outstanding liabilities.
What is important here is not the definition of these two concepts. What matters is how CENFACS is going to work with the community members so that they can have their balance sheets right and find out their net worth, especially for those living in poverty.
• • Working with the Community on Balance Sheet and Net Worth
We will be working with our members on ways of improving their fixed assets and working capital. We will as well work on their liabilities. It is about helping them to increase their assets while reducing their liabilities. In doing so, one can hope that they will be able to better understand both concepts and improve their financial situation.
For those members of our community who are struggling to create net worth or having balance sheet problems with their household accounts, they are free to work with us so that together we can explore steps forward or ways out to these problems. We can help them to increase their assets while reducing their liabilities.
To ask or get support to sort out the balance sheet and net worth of your family/household accounts, please contact CENFACS. Also, to support Zero Income Deficit Campaign 2022, please contact CENFACS.
Un extrait de la parution numéro 74 de FACS (le bulletin trimestriel de CENFACS) :
Des parts du marché de réduction de la pauvreté urbaine en Afrique pour des organisations africaines: Sont-elles significatives ou pas? (Page 5)
Quand on regarde l’éventail des problèmes que les pauvres urbains font face dans des cités africaines, on peut dire qu’il y a beaucoup de travaux à faire pour endiguer ou réduire la pauvreté ou précarité urbaine. Par contre, quand on se référe à l’ensemble de ressources de ces organisations, il y a lieu d’affirmer qu’elles n’ont pas de capacités d’intervention ou de réponse requises aux enjeux ou problématiques urbains.
Compte tenu de cette limitation des moyens, leurs parts du marché ne peuvent qu’être peu ou pas significatives. Bien entendu, cela dépend des cités et des pays africains et de la hantise (ou affection) qu’on a vis-à-vis des problèmes de pauvreté par ceux ou celles qui sont censé(e)s y pallier.
Ainsi, rehausser les parts du marché en faveur des organisations qui exercent le rôle qui est le leur dans le travail de réduction et d’élimination de la pauvreté ne serait qu’une bonne chose pour ceux ou celles qui veulent voir la disparition de la pauvreté urbaine.
Source: CENFACS, Le dilemme auquel sont confrontées les organisations soeurs basées en Afrique en aidant à réduire la pauvreté urbaine dans le contexte de l’augmentation de la population urbaine en Afrique, FACS, Parution No. 74, Hiver 2022
Main Development
• Coronavirus-affected Children of Sub-Saharan Africa Desperately Need Your Help Right NOW
You can halve poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa; you can halve health poverty for and with children at risk of loosing their life because of COVID-19
The following summarises data, needs, request, use and outcomes that briefly make the case for halving poverty for and with children at risk of loosing their life due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• • The data
Further to their study on hospitalised children with COVID-19 and their report entitled as ‘Assessment of Clinical Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents Hospitalised With COVID-19 in 6 Sub-Saharan African Countries [i.e. Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda]’, Jean B. Nachega et al (1) argue the following:
“African children reported a high overall mortality rate of 8.3 per cent compared with 1 per cent or less reported from Europe and North America.
Infants younger than one year had nearly five times the risk of death than adolescents aged 15 to 19 years.
African children less than a year old and with pre-existing non-communicable diseases were more likely to have poorer outcomes, including intensive care requirements and death”.
The above data has led to this appeal.
Indeed, children in Sub-Saharan Africa have never faced a health crisis of this magnitude and scale. There are no specialised doctors in some areas and, if there are, there is only a very limited number of them to deal with the situation. In places stricken by the legacies of wars and civil insecurity or climate change, the medical situation is even worse.
• • The Needs
The needs for emergency health and clinical support are 24 times than average in Sub-Saharan Africa where children are hospitalised with COVID-19. These children need your life-saving help to meet their life-surviving need.
• • The Ask
For £9, you can provide an emergency and life-saving support to a COVID-19 infected child in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Your gift of £9 today will provide an emergency health-saving and enhancing relief to a COVID-19 infected child in need.
Your £9 will go to the cost of 1 treatment or 1 visit per COVID-19 infected and hospitalised child.
• • The Use
Your gift of £9 will be used as follows:
To…
√ Facilitate the access of COVID-19 affected children to paediatric intensive care
√ Reduce high child morbidity and mortality associated with hospitalised children with COVID-19
√ Increase facilities or equipment for paediatric intensive care
√ Support places without doctors and/or those without specialised doctors
√ Help access to COVID-19 vaccination and therapeutic interventions for at-risk eligible children and adolescent patients in Africa
√ Build capacity and support for paediatric intensive care
√ Reduce COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst those related or surrounding children patients
√ Improve vaccine uptake via accessibility and trustworthiness to reduce threats within children’s social environment
Etc.
Please give today so that we can help children who are hospitalised with COVID-19 and have their life at great risk.
Your gift of £9 will help to rescue them from tragic situation and help them get back home after feeling well.
• • The Outcomes
With the support to be received, the following changes will be expected:
√ Reduction in the number of child tragedies
√ Cut in numbers of child morbidity and mortality
√ Better equipped paediatric intensive care units
√ Improvement in doctors recruitment and retention
√ Increase in the number of COVID-19 vaccinated people, including vaccinated children
√ Rise in the number of rescued children from early death
√ More happy and healthy children of Sub-Saharan Africa
Etc.
• • How to donate
To donate, gift aid and or support differently, please contact CENFACS.
You can donate
*over phone
*via email
*through text
*by filling the contact form on this site
On receipt of your intent to donate or donation, CENFACS will contact you. However, should you wish your support to remain anonymous; we will respect your wish.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to give and help save lives of Hospitalised Sub-Saharan African Children with COVID-19.
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Reference
(1) Nachega, J.B., Sam-Agudu, N.A., Machekano, R.N., et al (2022), Assessment of Clinical Outcomes Among Children and Adolescents Hospitalised With COVID-19 in 6 Six Sub-Saharan African Countries at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2788373 (accessed in January 2022)
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We look forward to receiving your regular visits and continuing support throughout 2022 and beyond.
With many thanks.
