Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
24 July 2024
Post No. 362
The Week’s Contents
• An Outline of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2024
• July 2024 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Level 3): Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
• 2023-2024 Data Analytics and Insight Activities from 24 to 31/07/2024
… And much more!
Key Messages
• An Outline of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2024
Our summer 2024 campaign about finding health relief, happy fulfilment and good wellbeing continues this week with the brief explanation of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2024. It is an explanation about projects to keep children, young people and families happy, healthy and well over Summer 2024.
As we highlighted in the last week’s post, there are three features about this year’s Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects. These features are as follows:
1) the link between CENFACS‘ services and life satisfaction of CENFACS‘ members
2) the distribution of life satisfaction amongst CENFACS‘ members
3) social media and trackers in CENFACS‘ community happiness, healthiness and wellness.
These blended particulars will be apparent as Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects get fully unveiled and implemented.
The above-mentioned outline 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, please contact CENFACS.
• July 2024 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 2023-2024 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
(c) The Maputo Treaty
(d) The United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
(e) Africa’s Agenda 2063.
This feedback provides our feelings and what we would like (if we could) to be different regarding these five frameworks or pieces 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. What observation do we make about them?
• • Observation about the Five Pillars of XX236.3 F Programme
The following statement is what we would like to make about the five pillars.
Concerning the Paris Treaty, our observation is on the tracking of the progress of this treaty through the metric of Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). According to the ‘unfccc.int’ (1),
“Under ETF, starting in 2024, countries will report transparently on actions taken and progress in climate change mitigation, adaptation measures and support provided or received. It also provides for international procedures for the review of the submitted reports”.
As part of reporting exercise, we can share information on carbon neutrality targets and zero-carbon solutions realised by organisations (e.g., Africa-based Sister Organisations) working on climate change issues.
Regarding the Istanbul Declaration, we can observe the application of this declaration by looking at the hits and misses relating to the metrics of human rights violation against women. Particularly, we can notice the progress made on a gender approach to violence and the criminalization of the four offenses (that is, physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence).
With reference to the Maputo Treaty, we are studying the metrics of sexual and reproductive rights which protect the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls. We are as well going to watch child marriage and female genital cutting, particularly whether there has been a decline or not about them. Briefly, we are contemplating the progress made on the right to health of women.
As to the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, many studies (e.g., Sustainable Development Goals Trackers which measure and monitor progress made so far) are warning about the impossibility of meeting these goals by their deadline of 2030. In particular, many of these studies speak about the impact of the poly-crises on the realisation of these goals. Amongst this body of works includes the Special Edition of the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023 from the United Nations Department of Economic Social Affairs (2) which points to the same direction of missing targets.
Let us hope that the upturn and return of the global economy will help the developing regions of the world, in particular Africa, to better navigate their way towards the realisation of the above-mentioned goals.
As regards Africa’s Agenda 2063, we are keeping an eye on the key transformational outcomes of this Agenda 2063, which are: improved standards of living; transformed inclusive and sustainable economies; integration; empowered women, youth and children; well-governed, peaceful and cultural centric Africa in a global context. We are tracking progress on these outcomes.
The above is just an observation we wanted to make about these pillars. Some elements of this observation do not come from us as many people have the same feeling or view like ours. This observation is not complete.
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.
• 2023-2024 Data Analytics and Insight Activities from 24 to 31/07/2024
The two tasks or activities (i.e., data analytics and data insight of the programmes and projects we ran in the last financial year) are being carried out and will finish by the 31st of July 2024. Although these data activities are jointly conducting, let us briefly highlight each of them.
• • 2023-2024 Data Analytics Activity from 24 to 31/07/2024
To highlight Data Analytics Activity, it is better to mention what needs to be said concerning this activity and its usefulness.
• • • What this Data Analytics Activity is about
It is about continuing to collect, transform and organise 2023-2024 data. To do that, we are using descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive data analytics. Data analytics skills such as data management, probability, statistics and others are also engaged in this analytics and insight process.
Once this work is completed, we shall draw conclusions, make predictions and drive informed decision-making process about our poverty reduction work. In other words, we will be using data findings to theorise and forecast poverty reduction as well as build data systems.
For example, we shall look at what fundraising data, humanitarian appeals data and so on will tell us. We can also consider data from the campaign on financial controls in 2024 and determine to continue or redesign or close this campaign.
• • • How this Data Analytics Activity is useful
This Data Analytics Activity will help to track projects (like All-year Round Projects or Triple Value Initiatives) as well as to make informed decision for the new financial year. We can look at data about services we provide and decide which ones to continue, update or close. We can further check the community members’ data or beneficiaries’ data to decide if the needs have been met or unmet within the community. This data analytics will help to drive CENFACS‘ strategy in the new financial year.
• • 2023-2024 Data Insights Generation from 24 to 31/07/2024
To draw attention to Data Insights Generation we are conducting, we are going to narrate what relates to it and its helpfulness.
• • • What this Data Insight Generation is about
It is about collecting, organising and curating data about the 2023-2024 programmes and projects. We are as well extracting knowledge from 2023-2024 data while analysing the extracted knowledge. Once this knowledge extraction is completed, we shall hypothesize action plans for each insight and apply the insight/action plan.
• • • How this Data Insight Generation is helpful
Gleaned data-driven insights will help in a number of ways. For example, they can assist in the following:
√ identifying, categorising and crafting individualised messages to prospective donors for marketing purpose
√ customising messages to Africa-based Sister Organisations
√ finding out new members for targeted marketing in terms of their preferences
√ detecting users’ needs in times of high demand induced by natural catastrophes or crises (like the cost-of-living crisis, geo-economic crisis) or war events in Africa
√ determining popular contents within the CENFACS Community
√ improving CENFACS reporting and analytics capabilities
√ boosting CENFACS poverty reduction work
√ enhancing CENFACS‘ work on sustainable development
etc.
• • Data Analytics and Insight Experiences from the Perspective of Africa-based Sister Organisations (ASOs)
This week, we are as well looking at the way in which our Africa-based Sister Organisations perceive data analytics and insight. We are inviting ASOs that have impact stories or case studies or experiences about their own data analytics and insight processes to share with us.
Likewise, we are asking to those ASOs that need advisory support in the area of data analytics and insight to let us know. This is an opportunity to learn and develop best practices and policies in this area.
Need to share your work or experience in terms of data analytics and insight for the programmes and projects you are running, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
The above is the summary of 2023-2024 Data Analytics and Insight activities.
For those who would like to know more about these activities, they can contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal: Summer Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Journal of Happy, Healthy and Social Support/Wellness
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Budgets 2024 – Holiday Budget Surplus
• Triple Value Initiatives (All-Year Round Projects) and Paris 2024 Olympic Games
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal: Summer Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Journal of Happy, Healthy and Social Support/Wellness
Social support is one of the six predictors of happiness and healthiness. But, what is social support? Social support can be defined in many ways. According to ‘verywellmind.com’ (3),
“Social support involves having a network of family and friends that you can turn to in times of need”.
The website ‘verywellmind.com’ adds by arguing this:
“Social support refers to the psychological and material resources provided by a social network to help individuals cope with stress”.
One can refer to the above definition and create a journal for having someone to count on in time of trouble like of any crisis or any other social network matter over this Summer. They can do more within this first creative activity. One can as well include in this journal social wellness, that is the development of positive relationships or connections with other people.
• • What else They Can Do as Part of This Summer 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 2024. They can as well include in the same journal any development of positive relationships with people or social connections they had as part of social wellness.
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/wellness as recorded in their journal by the end of Summer 2024.
• • 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 your happiness, healthiness and wellness journal relating to social support and wellness, 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.
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Budgets 2024 – Holiday Budget Surplus
We are continuing our hacks, hints and tips to help in budgeting Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness by looking at holiday budget surplus.
• • What Is a Budget Surplus?
A surplus is generally defined as the amount by which income is greater than expenditures. The website ‘bill.com’ (4) explains that
“A surplus occurs when you have more money than what you need”.
In terms of holiday budget surplus, it simply means that one’s holiday expenditure is less than holiday income. It is a positive balance which indicates money left over that can be saved or spent.
Yet, speaking about holiday budget surplus may not the prospect one can expect from 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. They are the ones we are targeting so that they can create surplus in their holiday budget to enjoy happiness, healthiness and wellness. Despite that, any sensible humans should do some budgeting, here holiday budgeting.
• • What to Do with a Holiday Budget Surplus
A holiday budget surplus can be used in many ways. The website ‘bill.com’ (op. cit.) suggests two possible allocations, which are savings (putting money into savings account for emergencies and unexpected increases of the cost of living) and spending to service debt or reinvest.
However, for the people in need they have limited option if they manage to create a holiday budget surplus, except to refinance their basic life-sustaining needs. Yet, this limitation does not stop them from budgeting their holiday.
• • What Is Good about Budgeting Your Holiday
Budgeting your holiday or household 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 create holiday budget surplus and sustainably manage holiday budget this Summer 2024.
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 or accounting software.
For those who are unfamiliar with these free available online resources, they can use CENFACS’ line of financial advisory support.
In the construction of this Summer Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Budget, it is better to include numbers relating to all economic and non-economic contexts and factors (e.g., global IT outage).
So, we will be checking with them on how these contexts and factors can impact their holiday or household budget. This exercise enables to take into consideration the way in which these contexts and 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 create and sustainably manage holiday budget surplus or positive budget balance this Summer 2024; please contact CENFACS.
• Triple Value Initiatives (All-Year Round Projects) and Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Paris 2024 Olympic Games will begin on Friday the 26th of July 2024 and will end on Sunday the 11th of August 2024. These Global Games provide a further opportunity for those who are looking for the following bests:
√ The Best African Country or Countries of 2024 which will best reduce poverty
√ The Best African Global Games Runners of 2024
√ The Best African Development Managers of 2024.
One can use the centennial opportunity to be provided by these Games to enhance their ideas of the Triple Value Initiatives (All Year-round Projects) as suggested below.
• • The Best African Global Games Runners of 2024 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games
There are ways of making your Run Project or event meaningful by watching the Paris 2024 Olympic Runners and selecting by yourself who could be the Best African Global Games Runners of 2024.
• • The Best African Country or Countries of 2024 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Global games like Paris 2024 Olympics can create a tremendous opportunity to reduce poverty. One can explore ways of establishing the links between their Play Project (CENFACS Poverty Relief League) and Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In particular, they can look at how African countries will do to best and further reduce poverty via these games.
• • The Best African Development Managers of 2024 and Paris 2024 Olympic Games
There could be some relationships between 2024 Olympic Managers involved in these Global Games and the games themselves. Through the Vote Project, an all-year-round project user can try to vote or find their 2024 International Development Manager.
So, whether you are undertaking a play or run or vote project to reduce poverty, you can find answer to your project by following or watching the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Please remember the deadline to tell us your bests or stars of 2024 Edition of All Year-round Projects is 23 December 2024.
For more information about these projects, please contact CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Initiatives à triple valeur (Projets tout au long de l’année) et les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024
Les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 débuteront le vendredi 26 juillet 2024 et se termineront le dimanche 11 août 2024. Ces Jeux Olympiques offrent une opportunité supplémentaire à ceux ou celles qui recherchent les meilleurs suivants:
√ Le ou les meilleurs pays africains de 2024 qui réduiront le mieux la pauvreté
√ Les meilleurs coureurs africains ou meilleures coureuses africaines des Jeux Olympiques de 2024
√ Les meilleurs responsables du développement africain de 2024.
On peut profiter de l’occasion offerte par ces Jeux pour améliorer ses idées sur les initiatives à triple valeur (projets annuels) comme suggéré ci-dessous.
• • Les meilleur(e)s coureurs/ses africain(e)s des Jeux Mondiaux de 2024 et les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024
Il existe des moyens de donner du sens à votre projet de course ou à votre événement en regardant les coureurs/ses olympiques de Paris 2024 et en sélectionnant vous-même qui pourraient être les meilleurs coureurs africains ou meilleures coureuses africaines des Jeux mondiaux de 2024.
• • Le ou les meilleurs pays africains de 2024 et les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024
Les jeux mondiaux comme les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 peuvent créer une formidable opportunité de réduire la pauvreté. On peut explorer les moyens d’établir les liens entre votre projet Jouer (La Ligue de Réduction de la Pauvreté de CENFACS) et les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024. En particulier, vous pouvez examiner comment les pays africains réussiront à réduire davantage la pauvreté grâce à ces jeux.
• • Les meilleurs responsables du développement afriain et les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024
Il pourrait y avoir des relations entre les responsables olympiques de 2024 impliqués dans ces Jeux Mondiaux et les jeux eux-mêmes. Grâce au projet Voter, un(e) utilisateur(trice) de projet tout au long de l’année peut essayer de voter ou de trouver son responsable du développement international 2024.
Ainsi, que vous entrepreniez un projet de jeu, de course ou de vote pour réduire la pauvreté, vous povez trouver une réponse à votre projet en suivant ou en regardant les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024.
N’oubliez pas que la date limite pour nous faire part de vos meilleurs ou vedettes de l’édition 2024 de projets tout au long de l’année est le 23 décembre 2024.
Pour plus d’informations sur ces projets, veuillez contacter le CENFACS.
Main Development
• An Outline of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2024
The following headings will help to summarise Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2024:
∝ 2024 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Wellness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
∝ Essential Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects
∝ Other Summer Projects around Me.
Let us briefly uncover these headings.
• • 2024 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Wellness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
This 2024 Edition is out now and trending. It covers the main initiatives and activities planned for this summer. In this edition, the 2024 Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness 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, healthiness and wellness in the treble context of lingering impacts of polycrises, extreme temperatures and the damaging effects of the squeeze on household basic spending.
These projects are as follows:
1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource (this year’s focus is on Holiday with Restricted Budget)
2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
3) Summer Harmony with Nature
4) True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
5) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security
6) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness 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, Healthiness and Wellness Mini-Guide, and Holiday Information Manager)
√ One communication-protection project (Networking Platform for Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness)
√ One climate and environmental campaign (Summer Harmony with Nature)
√ One interactive (interaction between people and their community) project (True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness)
√ One set of initiatives to stay well (Wellness Enhancing Activities).
They are the projects to build forward together better summer holiday in cleaner, greener, inclusive, safer and climate-resilient way.
In their design, we have considered the effects of climate change all over our Summer 2024 Programme. In other words, all the six Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects will have green, sustainable, and climate changing and resilient contents. They will be aligned with greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets. The consideration of the effects of climate change and resilience all across is what makes Summer 2024 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, Healthiness and Wellness 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, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2024
Here are the essential summaries of the Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects making the 2024 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 Holiday with Restricted Budget
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.
The current Issue of our ICDP Resource entitled as ‘Holiday with Relief’ focuses on Holiday with Restricted Budget. The Issue deals with limited spending for holiday, with a family’s or household’s immediate needs rather than wants during holiday.
This year, ‘Holiday with Relief’ provides wealthy advice, tips and hints to overcome these challenges and find opportunities to finance your holiday. Through this wealth of information, we will try to tackle holiday poverty or poverty linked to restricted or limited means to enjoy a decent holiday whether at home or away from home.
This resource is packed with seasonal relieving ideas about how to reduce holiday poverty.
To build forward a happy, healthy and well Summer break, and or get this Family Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness 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 polycrises.
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, healthiness and wellness. 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, Healthiness and Wellness 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, fungi, waters, parks, etc.) and resources adds a great value to our happiness, healthiness and wellness. In other words, it is about equating our needs of happiness, healthiness and wellness 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, Healthiness and Wellness
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.
Balance is also about giving each part of our life the correct amount of care and attention as suggested by ‘mindfulmovement.me’ (5). The same ‘mindfulmovement.me’ argues that balance means we have to learn how to embrace life’s dualities.
By finding your personal balance, this can help to discover the true balance in happiness, healthiness and wellness.
It is in the interaction in happiness of each of our members and the CENFACS Community that the true balance in happiness, healthiness and wellness can be found.
To find out further about this Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Project, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 5) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security
Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security (N4PSS) 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 polycrises.
N4PSS 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 also about applying the five main areas of safeguarding which are: recognize, respond, report, record and refer.
It is not enough to carry out our individual actions against any crisis unless we sum up them by coming together in the form of social connections as human chains. Such connections or networks will help to exchange information and data for the mutual interest and collective defence or security.
N4PSS can even go further by forming a network security to protect the usability and integrity of our network and data. This type of network will help to undertake behavioural analytics and react to questionable activities that can pose a threat to the CENFACS Community members. It can as well keep us safe, identify security issues while setting up a firewall around us and encrypting any data we try to transmit. This is important since protection and security are also about data that run our individual and community lives.
N4PSS against any Crisis or Summer Social Media Platform is a means to access and facilitate the flows of information about the protection, safeguarding and security against any crisis. It is our capacity to help protect our members from threats, risks and attacks. Through this means, one can receive and pass on protective, safeguarding and security information about any threats and risks from the rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises within a networked community.
To network for protection, safeguarding and security against any crisis, please let CENFACS know.
• • • 6) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities
Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities are a combination of the physical, emotional and social support to people/our community members to live with care, control and dignity in our community on the one hand; and our shared responsibility for the public health on the other.
Health responsibility means that our community members fulfil their duties to maintain their physical, mental and social well-being.
Wellness activities describe anything (like meditation, walking, gardening, DIY, physical exercise, etc.) being done to help achieve the overall health goal.
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, Healthiness and Wellness initiative to create a safe 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, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities, please contact CENFACS.
The above six interlinked themed ways/projects of creating and sustaining Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness in a Summer of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises do not replace any good advice and practice (like the ones produced by statutory bodies). 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.
• • Other Summer Projects around Me
So far, we have highlighted what CENFACS can do to help build a Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness. Besides CENFACS, there are countless projects and programmes that can help anyone to meet their Summer goals or plans. Depending on where one lives and which online platforms one uses, there are projects and programmes that can bring happiness, healthiness and wellness. Put it simply, there is something that one can do over Summer in-person or virtual to stay happy, healthy and well this Summer.
For example, if you live in the Broadgreen ward of Croydon, there is Handcroft, Eastney and Tamworth ‘Summer Fun‘. This is a two-week period of fun for 8 plus years (and under 8’s with parents), which includes sports, games, arts and craft, music and much more. You can access this initiative by contacting the organisers as follows:
e: info@playplaces.org
w: www.playplace.org
For those of our members who are looking for Summer activities other than CENFACS‘ Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects; and they do not know where to find them, CENFACS can work with them to guide them. They can contact CENFACS for guidance and support.
We would like to wish all multi-dimensionally Poor Children, Young People and Families Happy, Healthy, Well, Vulnerability-free, Peaceful, Safe and Sustainable Summer Days.
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• References
(1) https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement#:~text=With%20the%20Paris%20Agreement (accessed in July 2024),
(2) https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2023.pdf (accessed in July 2023)
(3) https://www.verywellmind.com/social-support-for-psychological-health-4119970 (accessed in July 2023)
(4) https://bill.com/learning/budget-surplus (accessed in July 2024)
(5) https://mindfulmovement.me/blog-eng/why-balance-is-key-to-live-a-happy-and-successful-life (accessed in July 2024)
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• Help CENFACS Keep the Poverty Relief Work Going This Year
We do our work on a very small budget and on a voluntary basis. Making a donation will show us you value our work and support CENFACS’ work, which is currently offered as a free service.
One could also consider a recurring donation to CENFACS in the future.
Additionally, we would like to inform you that planned gifting is always an option for giving at CENFACS. Likewise, CENFACS accepts matching gifts from companies running a gift-matching programme.
Donate to support CENFACS!
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JUST GO TO: Support Causes – (cenfacs.org.uk)
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With many thanks.
