Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
27 July 2022
Post No. 258
The Week’s Contents
• Essential Summaries of Happiness and Healthiness Projects 2022
• Happiness and Healthiness Journal: Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Journal of Happy and Healthy Social Support
• July 2022 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Level 3): Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Essential Summaries of Happiness and Healthiness Projects 2022
Our summer 2022 campaign about finding health relief and happy fulfilment continues this week with some brief accounts about Happiness and Healthiness Projects 2022. These summaries are about projects to keep children, young people and families happy and healthy over Summer in the treble context of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the coronavirus.
These essential summaries can be found under the Main Development section of this post. The full details of these projects are also available on request from CENFACS, including ways of accessing and using them.
To access and or support them, just contact CENFACS.
• Happiness and Healthiness Journal: Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Journal of Happy and Healthy Social Support
Social support is one of the six predictors of happiness and healthiness. One can create a journal for having someone to count on in time of trouble like of the cost-of-living crisis or any other personal matter over this Summer. They can do more within this first creative activity.
• • What else they can do as part of this creative activity no.1
They can create a journal for the things and people who have been socially supportive to their enjoyment and good conditions of life during this Summer 2022.
They can record their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relation to the social support they have received or given.
They can share with the community their experience of happy and healthy social support as recorded in their journal by the end of Summer 2022.
• • Sharing the content of your journal
One of the objectives of this journal is to share one’s Summer holiday experience. Thus, sharing your Summer holiday experience via the records from your journal could be helpful and useful for others who are looking for social support and inspiration. You can share the content of your journal via CENFACS by submitting it.
To submit the contents of their happiness and healthiness journal relating to social support, and help build a better Summer holiday experience within the community, please contact CENFACS. When submitting the content of your journal to us, please do not forget to give us permission to share it.
• July 2022 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Level 3): Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
Our 3-tier impact feedback has reached its third level or tier. Unlike Impact Feedback of our 2020-2022 Programmes and Projects given by Users and Stakeholders, Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme is provided by CENFACS to inform its audience (including users and stakeholders) about the progress it is making in terms of this programme.
• • What is this Impact Feedback from CENFACS about?
CENFACS’ Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F (2020 to 2030 to 2063 Follow up) Programme is about the observation on the following five key components of this follow-up programme:
(a) The Paris Treaty
(b) The Istanbul Declaration and the Maputo Treaty
(c) The United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
(d) Africa’s Agenda 2063.
This feedback also provides our feelings and what we would like (if we could) to be different regarding these five pieces frameworks of work.
Our observation, feelings and need of difference will be in terms of progress made so far concerning these frameworks. Our observation, feelings and need of difference are indeed in relation to the kind of work of poverty reduction we do since these global and international frameworks/initiatives greatly impact us. Our feedback is not an evaluation of these frameworks of work.
For those who would like to know more about our observation, feelings and need of difference regarding these pieces of framework of work, they can contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• All-in-one Impact Feedback: Only Four Days to Go!
Supporters’ and Users’ Experiences, and Africa-based Sister Organisations’ Voices
Our Analytics Month of bringing light to what worked, what did not work and of measuring what we achieved in our last financial year is coming to an end in four days. We are therefore appealing again to you to tell us in your own words, numbers and info-graphics your perceptions, feelings and experiences about the programmes and projects we ran in the last 345 days preceding the beginning of July 2022.
Although we have selected 12 initiatives for Impact Feedback One and 9 ones for Impact Feedback Two for monitoring and evaluation purposes, we are not expecting people to provide feedback on all of them. People can only feedback on the project(s) and programme(s) they benefited from, supported, recommended users to us or interacted within. We again suggest picking up ONLY 1 or 2 initiatives for feedback.
Please feel free to say what you experienced.
Again, thank you for your experiential support!
• Feedback on Summer Festival 2022 (the Seven Days of Development in July 2022 Festival): with a Focus on Infrastructures to Reduce Poverty
The 14th Edition of our Summer Festival of Thoughts and Actions is officially ended.
Any contribution in the form of thoughts and comments to be provided need to be done by the 7th of August 2022. Please mail them to CENFACS at facs@cenfacs.org.uk and or by completing the comment form on our website by 07/08/2022.
Thank you for your support.
• Happiness and Healthiness Budgets 2022 – Holiday Budget Deficit
How to Sustainably Manage Budget Deficit in in the Treble Context of Rising Costs of Living, Changing Climate and Lingering Effects of the Coronavirus
We are continuing our hacks, hints and tips to help Budget Happiness and Healthiness by looking at holiday budget deficit.
• • What is a budget deficit and why does it matter for poor people?
A deficit is generally defined as the amount by which expenditure is greater than real income. In terms of holiday budget deficit, it simply means that one’s holiday expenditure is more than holiday income. It is a negative balance which could suggest that there could be a need to finance it (here holiday budget deficit).
Yet, speaking about holiday budget deficit could seem bizarre since we are talking about poor people or those in need. These are the people who often struggle to make ends meet. They are the ones who often are short of money to tie the knots of the two ends of the month. Despite that any sensible humans should do some budgeting, here holiday budgeting.
• • What is budgeting for a household?
Budgeting is forward thinking process that can help to coordinate the different areas of household life while defining responsibility and delegating powers within the same household. It is indeed an instrument for household control as well as a basis for decision making process and changing plans where there is a need to do so.
For those households making our community who are familiar with budgeting process, they know they need to budget their holiday incomings and outgoings. For those ones who are unfamiliar with this process, CENFACS is available for help and support.
• • Working with the community on holiday budget
We are available to work on the budgeting process with those who are struggling to make ends meet and those who are interested in budgeting their holiday expenses and incomes. We will be working on how to avoid and sustainably manage holiday budget in a Summer of Rising Costs of Living, Changing Climate and Lingering Effects of the Coronavirus.
For those who are familiar with online tools, they can find countless examples of family or household budgets sometimes in the form of Microsoft Application Spread sheets. For those who are not familiar with these free available online resources, they can use CENFACS’ line of financial advisory support.
In the construction of this Summer Happiness and Healthiness Budget, it is better to include numbers relating to Rising Costs of Living, Changing Climate and Lingering Effects of the Coronavirus.
So, we will be checking with them on which part of this deficit is attributable or not attributable to the above mentioned contexts or factors. This exercise enables to take into consideration these factors are affecting their holiday budget in what they eat, drink, cover or uncover their body, entertain, shelter, etc.
To learn or seek support on how to avoid and sustainably manage holiday budget deficit or negative budget balance in Summer of Rising Costs of Living, Changing Climate and Lingering Effects of the Coronavirus; please contact CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
Journal du Bonheur et de la Salubrité
Activité créative n ° 1: Créez votre journal de soutien social heureux et sain
Le soutien social est l’un des six prédicteurs du bonheur et de la santé. On peut créer un journal pour avoir quelqu’un sur qui compter en période de troubles, comme celle de la crise du coût de la vie ou toute autre affaire personnelle au cours de cet été.
Que pouvez-vous faire d’autre dans le cadre de cette activité créative n°1?
Vous pouvez créer un journal pour les choses et les personnes qui ont été socialement favorables à votre plaisir et à vos bonnes conditions de vie au cours de cet été 2022.
Vous pouvez enregistrer vos pensées, vos sentiments et vos expériences par rapport au soutien social que vous avez reçu ou donné.
Vous pouvez partager avec la communauté votre expérience de soutien social heureux et sain, tel qu’il est consigné dans votre journal d’ici la fin de l’été 2022.
Partager le contenu de votre journal
Pour soumettre le contenu de votre journal du bonheur et de la santé relatif au soutien social et aider à construire une meilleure expérience de vacances d’été au sein de la communauté, vous pouvez contacter le CENFACS.
Main Development
• Essential Summaries about Happiness and Healthiness Projects 2022
The following headings will help to summarise Happiness and Healthiness Projects 2022:
∝ 2022 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
∝ Essential Summaries of Happiness and Healthiness Projects.
Let us briefly uncover these headings.
• • 2022 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
This 2022 Edition is out now and trending. It covers the main initiatives and activities planned for this summer. In this edition, the 2022 Happiness and Healthiness Projects may have kept the same names for some of these projects like in the previous Summers, but their contents reflect this year’s themes of happiness and healthiness in the treble context of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the coronavirus.
These projects are as follows:
1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource (this year’s focus is on Food and Energy for Holiday)
2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
3) Summer Harmony with Nature
4) True Balance in Happiness and Healthiness
5) Networking for Protection and Safeguarding at the Time of Cost-of-living Crisis
6) Community Care and Health Responsibility Enhancing Activities.
They are the combination of skills, knowledge, resources, tools, fixers, enhancements, boosters and tasters for poverty relief. They consist of:
√ Two resource projects (Family Happiness and Healthiness Mini-Guide, and Holiday Information Manager)
√ One communication-protection project (Networking Platform for Happiness and Healthiness)
√ One climate and environmental campaign (Summer Harmony with Nature)
√ One interactive (interaction between people and their community) project (True Balance in Happiness and Healthiness)
√ One set of initiatives to stay happy (Happiness Enhancing Activities).
They are the projects to build forward together better summer holiday in cleaner, greener and safer way.
In their design, we have considered the effects of climate change all over our Summer 2022 Programme. In other words, all the six Happiness and Healthiness Projects will have green, sustainable and climate changing contents. They will be aligned with greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets. The consideration of the effects of climate change all across is what makes Summer 2022 of a zero or neutral carbon one.
This is done to help improve life evaluation while taking actions to enhance the same life in a changing climate. In this way, Summer can be a season of Happiness and Healthiness NOT of Misery for un-served and under-served children, young people and families who are at the same time the victims of the adverse effects of climate change, particularly but not exclusively extreme temperatures.
They are the victims of adverse effects of climate change because climate change affects the way they dress, eat, house, educate, entertain, care for their health, and above all the way they pass Summer holiday.
We can briefly present these projects one by one as follows.
• • Essential Summaries of Happiness and Healthiness Projects 2022
Here are the essential summaries of the Happiness and Healthiness Projects making the 2022 Summer Programme Part II. As said previously, these projects can help in achieving some happy, helpful, healthful and hopeful Summer plans, goals and outcomes.
••• 1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource with a focus on Food and Energy for Holiday
Holiday with Relief is one of CENFACS useful and helpful ICDP (individual Capacity Development Programme) resources for holiday makers and travellers. The resource, which is published during Spring of every year, can also be used during Summer holiday or any holiday.
This year’s Holiday with Relief with its theme of Energy and Food during Holiday is designed to help those in need by having happy and healthy holiday (e.g. Summer holiday). It provides wealthy advice, tips and hints linked to energy and food during holiday. Within this wealth of information contained in this Issue, there are tips and hints that can be used to tackle energy poverty and food poverty.
These tips and hints are meant to support those of our users and non-users who are struggling to make energy and food ends meet during holiday (that is; this Summer holiday).
To build forward happy and healthy Summer break, and or get this Family Happiness and Healthiness Mini-Guide, please contact CENFACS.
••• 2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities (‘NAGAHAIN’) Project is our Information Manager for this year’s summer. The goal of the ‘NAGAHAIN’ Project is to help make the distribution of subjective well-being even or equal within the community. What is really about?
It is about…
√ Improving the psychological equality or happiness quality or even subjective well-being
√ Enhancing happiness levels amongst the members of CENFACS Community to avoid high levels of happiness differences
√ Increasing the community trust, that is the belief in the integrity of other members of our community.
One of the concerns for many people and families is how to pass this Summer happy and healthy under the constraints of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the coronavirus.
The NAGAHAIN Project/Resource as Holiday Information Manager is the awareness, preparedness and solutions-focused Resource to Manage Information to turn summer of constraints and worries into that of happiness and healthiness. It contains a set of tips and tricks to help and enable vulnerable unaware people to plan their holiday or break with confidence to achieve the goal of increasing happiness.
For further details about this Holiday Information Manager or Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities, please contact CENFACS.
••• 3) Summer Harmony with Nature
Summer of Happiness and Healthiness is also of accord with nature with its creatures. Keeping a harmonious relationship with leaves, plants, animals, landscapes and surrounding natural species (like trees, plants, waters, parks, etc.) and resources adds a great value to our happiness and healthiness. In other words, it is about equating our needs of happiness and healthiness to those of the nature.
Living in harmony with nature means that to pass a good summer we do not need to upset the nature with its creatures. Humans can pre-emptively take the lead by keeping their relationships as harmonious as possible to avoid the degradation and depletion of nature.
Need to keep harmony with nature, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS’ Summer Campaign over Nature.
••• 4) True Balance in Happiness and Healthiness
Through this initiative, we shall work with users to address some forms of imbalance in happiness; imbalance between happiness as an individual experience and happiness as a collective endeavour. In other words, we shall support the community members to achieve their own happiness without compromising the ability of the other members of the community they belong to to have their own happiness.
It is in the interaction in happiness of each of our members and the CENFACS Community that the true balance in happiness can be found.
To find out further about this Happiness and Healthiness Project, please contact CENFACS.
••• 5) Networking for Protection and Safeguarding against the Cost-of-living Crisis
Networking for Protection and Safeguarding against the Cost-of-living Crisis is a CENFACS Social Media Platform to facilitate the flows of information and communication in order to keep local children, young people and families (CYPFs) out of the threats, troubles, attacks and challenges of everyday life and during the Summertime of changing climate, rising costs of living and lingering effects of the coronavirus.
Networking for Protection and Safeguarding against the Cost-of-living Crisis is about improving the Flow of Information over the Summertime amongst us and other stakeholders by gaining access to mutual support, facilities, services and resources in order to protect and safeguard multi-dimensional deprived CYPFs.
It is not enough to carry out our individual actions against the cost-of-living crisis unless we sum up them by coming together in the form of social connections as human chains. Such connections or network will help to exchange information and data for the mutual interest and collective defence or security.
Networking for Protection and Safeguarding against the Cost-of-living Crisis or Summer Social Media Platform is a means to access and facilitate the flows of information about the protection and safeguarding against the cost-of-living crisis. Through this means, one can receive and pass on protective and safeguarding information about any threats and risks from the rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the coronavirus within a networked community.
To network for protection and safeguarding against the cost-of-living crisis, please let CENFACS know.
••• 6) Community Care and Health Responsibility Enhancing Activities
Community Care and Health Responsibility Enhancing Activities are a combination of the support to people to live with care and dignity in our community on the one hand, and our shared responsibility for the public health on the other.
Through this Personal/Family Healthcare Plan, we will try to reduce lifestyle-induced diseases for ourselves and others while promoting our own health without adversely impacting the health of others and future generations. Community care and responsibility imply as well whatever we do we must comply with the rule of the community, society in which we live.
We can use this Happiness and Healthiness initiative to create a COVID-19 Proof Wellness or Healthcare Plan. Such a plan will include the following: health vision and goals, lifestyles habits, follow-up tips and checks.
For further details about Community Care and Health Responsibility Enhancing Activities, please contact CENFACS.
The above six interlinked themed ways/projects of creating and sustaining Happiness and Healthiness in a Summer of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the coronavirus do not replace any good advice and practice (like the ones produced by statutory bodies on the cost-of-living crisis). They just add value to what it is already in place. They are to be used in conjunction with the existing other measures to bring happiness as well as health and safety measures.
For further details about any of these projects, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
We would like to wish all multi-dimensionally Poor Children, Young People and Families Happy, Healthy, Vulnerability-free, Peaceful, Safe and Sustainable Summer Days.
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