Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
31 July 2024
Post No. 363
The Week’s Contents
• All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families Would Greatly Appreciate Your Help
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal, Creative Activity No. 2: Create Your Journal of Summer Generosity
• Completion of Work on Data Analytics and Impact for Programmes, Projects and Activities for Financial Year 2023-2024
… And much more!
Key Messages
• All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families Would Greatly Appreciate Your Help
All poor, children who need networking to protect them, undervalued young carers and poor families with children trying to tackle poverty via sports in Africa; they all need your donations and gifts. They are calling for your assistance as the following data and facts speak for them.
• • Data and Facts Speaking for All poor, Unprotected Children, Undervalued Young Carers and Those Lacking Opportunity to Practise Sports
According to a press release on 1 July 2024 by ‘unicef.org’ (1),
“1 in 3 children in Africa live in severe child food poverty due to inequity, conflict, and climate crises. Children experiencing this level of food poverty are up to 50 per cent more likely to suffer from life-threatening malnutrition, new analysis finds”.
Likewise, the jointly report produced by the African Union, African Development Bank, United Nations Development and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (2) indicates that
“The indicator 5.3.4 of Africa’s Agenda 2063 requires a percent increase of youth and women participating in integrated agricultural value chains; and to empower youth for entrepreneurship and create jobs for them in a climate adaptation and resilience”.
Yet, many of the impoverished youth and women in Africa are unable to participate in these chains.
Moreover, there are young carers (aged under 18) in Africa who take all sorts of caring responsibilities and roles such as collecting wood for energy to warm homes and cook a meal, looking after their family members and communities, cooking, cleaning, etc. They provide this support at their own expenses as they miss opportunities of education and learning. Their substantial, regular and unpaid care is not properly valued.
These young unpaid carers are struggling to combine caring responsibilities with the demands of their education. They care for under 5 years and old aged 50 and over and work over exorbitant hours each day. They do it where there is no Young Carers Covenant (that is a commitment to ensure a fair future for young carers).
Furthermore, there are poor families in Africa seeking for sports to make a difference in the life of their children. Yet, there are costs (including those of specialist equipment and sportswear) that are prohibiting these poor to play the sports that will help them escape from poverty. These poor children and youth have no access to sports and sustainable development opportunities to help them escape from poverty. There is a need to help and invest in poor children and youngsters (aged between 5 and 18 ) to take the opportunities of the sports sector to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in Africa.
All poor, unprotected children, undervalued young carers and those poor suffering from the lack of opportunities in sport development and sustainable development; they all are asking for support to reduce and or end the type of poverty they are experiencing.
• • Supporting All poor, Unprotected Children, Undervalued Young Carers and Those Lacking Opportunity to Practise Sports
∝ You can help
– reduce the trends, inequities and drivers of food poverty in early childhood in Africa
– provide sufficient dietary intake of essential nutrients to these children
– children and families trapped in a cycle of poverty and deprivation in Africa this Summer.
∝ You can support these poorest children and adolescents, who are looking to get physically active, to live a happier, healthier and well fulfilling lives through sports. You can help these children and adolescents to reduce poverty due to the lack of sports development and improve their physical and emotional well-being.
∝ You can back the young unpaid carers of Africa to meet their needs of education, social care, health, wellbeing and pensions. In doing so, your support will help improve their living conditions while eradicating poverty amongst them.
To support them, one may need to know what they are exactly requesting.
• • Summaries of the Requests from All poor, Unprotected Children, Undervalued Young Carers and Those Lacking Opportunity to Practise Sports
Their requests are summarised inside the 2024 Edition of CENFACS’ Summer Humanitarian Appeal Projects.
The projects making this appeal include the following:
√ Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children in Africa
√ All Gifts for All Poor
√ International Networking and Protection against Crises
√ Iconic Young Carer
√ ELCLASSICO International.
Except CENFACS’ Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children in Africa, the other four projects have been highlighted under the Main Development section of this post. The highlight about CENFACS’ Cover Basic Spending for the Distressed Children in Africa can be found at cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
The above five projects require donation or funding or influence.
The fundraising and influencing campaign for them will end by 22 September 2024.
To support and or enquire about these humanitarian relief appeal projects, please contact CENFACS.
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal, Creative Activity No. 2: Create Your Journal of Summer Generosity
Generosity is one of the six predictors of happiness and healthiness. One can create a journal about what they are giving (or gave) or are receiving (or received) unselfishly.
Like last Summer, this Summer is tough for many ordinary people and families since higher costs of living can only make things difficult for them. Many of these poor people and families are looking for unselfish help and support.
For those who would manage to receive this generous support; they can create a journal for the things, organisations and people who have been unselfishly supportive to their happiness, healthiness and wellness during this Summer 2024. For those who would give to others; they can as well journal their experience of giving to others.
Both receivers and givers can record their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relation to the generous support they have received or given. They can share with the community their experience of happy and healthy generous support. This can be recorded in their journal and be shared by the end of Summer 2024.
To share the contents of their happiness, healthiness and wellness journal relating to philanthropic support, and help build a better Summer holiday experience; they can contact CENFACS.
• Completion of Work on Data Analytics and Impact for Programmes, Projects and Activities for Financial Year 2023-2024
As planned, our 2023-2024 Data Analytics and Impact Work will end today the 31st of July 2024. For those who have not yet told us what they think about the 2023-2024 Programmes, Projects and Activities they can say it by the end of the day.
We would very much appreciate if they could provide us their feedback…
(a) via e-mail, text, phone, web comments or reviews
(b) in their own words, numbers, voices and information graphics (info-graphics).
They can briefly explain the way in which the 2023-2024 programmes, projects and activities have affected them or the people they recommended to use them or their organisation or sister organisation.
We would very much appreciate if their feedback could be specific, timely, respectful and aligned with CENFACS‘ mission, goals and values.
They could rate (by using numbers or percentages or ratios) these programmes/projects/activities or provide a statement (by using words) or even give a chart or table (as information graphics). They can as well record their voice and run a video or short film. This is aptly up to them.
Please remember, we can only help reduce poverty and do the changes we all want if you tell us what you think; not us only telling you what we do.
Please consider our request for an independent feedback and for your testimonial support.
Please use the end of July 2024 to reach us with your say if you have not done it so far. Thank you!
Extra Messages
• Half-year Actions and Results about 2024 Run, Play and Vote to Reduce Poverty
• Shop at CENFACS’ Zero-Waste e-Store during Summer Season
• Advice on Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Budgets for Families
• Half-year Actions and Results about 2024 Run, Play and Vote to Reduce Poverty
Our Triple Value Initiatives (Run, Play and Vote) for this year are now beyond six months. Through e-workshops, we have provided some guidance and help about them. And we are still available to work together with those who need some help. Those who started them in January 2024 should be half-way through with them or have completed them.
These activities can be run in hybrid manner; that is in-person or virtual depending on the circumstances of participants. Last week, we suggested to those who wanted to wash the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and figure out how these centennial global games could inspire them in the development and implementation of their own Triple Value Initiatives (Run, Play and Vote), they could do so.
Since we have already crossed the middle of the year, half-year actions and results about these recreational activities are now seeking from those who are practising them. If anyone has some results or stories of their actions, it will be good to start sharing them now.
Please do not hesitate to report on your actions, progress and results to CENFACS. Contacting CENFACS to report is a further opportunity to spot any problems with them or to start to celebrate your hard work with them before their deadline of 23 December 2024.
• Shop at CENFACS’ Zero-Waste e-Store during Summer Season
CENFACS e-Store is opened for your Summer goods donations and goods purchases.
At this time, many people have been affected by the lingering impact of the high cost of living mostly driven by the hikes in prices of basic life-sustaining needs (e.g., food, transport, housing, council tax, phone, hygienic products, etc.).
The impacted of the high cost of living needs help and support as prices and bills are significantly above real household disposable incomes for many of those living in poverty.
Every season, every month is an opportunity to do something against poverty and hardships. This Summer too is a good and great season of the year to do it.
You can donate or recycle your unwanted and unneeded goods to CENFACS’ Zero-Waste e-Store, the shop built to help alleviate poverty, lift people out of poverty and prevent poverty and hardships to happen.
Donating or recycling goods will not only help to reduce poverty. It will also improve your household circularity and circular transition indicators while creating spaces.
You can as well buy second hand goods and bargain priced new items and much more at CENFACS’ Zero-Waste e-Store.
CENFACS’ Zero-Waste e-Store needs your support for SHOPPING and GOODS DONATIONS to reduce poverty with measurable impact.
You can do something different this Season of Goods Donations by SHOPPING or DONATING GOODS at CENFACS Zero-Waste e-Store.
You can DONATE or SHOP or do both:
√ DONATE unwanted GOODS, GIFTS and PRODUCTS to CENFACS Zero-Waste e-Store this Summer.
√ SHOP at CENFACS Zero-Waste e-Store to support the noble and beautiful cause of poverty reduction with measurable impact this Summer.
Your SHOPPING and or GOODS DONATIONS will help to the Upkeep of the Nature and to reduce poverty and hardships with measurable impact; poverty and hardships exacerbated or brought by the higher cost of living.
This is what the Season of Giving or Summer of Giving is all about.
Please do not hesitate to donate goods or purchase what is available at CENFACS Zero-Waste e-Store.
Many lives have been threatened and destroyed by the higher cost of living.
We need help to help them come out poverty and hardships caused by the higher cost of living.
To donate or purchase goods, please go to: http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
• Advice on Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Budgets for Families
This area of support to families continue for those who are looking for it. The support covers both expenses/expenditures (outgoings) and income/receipts (incomings). The advice also includes economic factors such as inflation, currency exchange rate, interest rate, changes in statutory policies, etc. It further considers climate mitigation factors. It finally puts emphasis on areas of happiness, healthiness and wellness to care for when building budgets for holidaying.
There are online tools and accounting platforms that provide lessons and examples about family budgets. However, many of them do not provide specific advice on happiness, healthiness and wellness budgets. For those who are familiar with tools and platforms, they can use their contents.
However, for those who are unfamiliar with these free available online resources and/or looking for specific information about happiness, healthiness and wellness budgets; they can refer to CENFACS’ line of financial advisory support.
To learn or seek support on how to create and sustainably manage holiday budget that includes Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness; please contact CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Fin des travaux sur l’analytique et l’impact des données des programmes, projets et activités de l’année financière 2023-2024
Comme prévu, notre travail d’analytique et d’impact des données 2023-2024 se terminera aujourd’hui. Pour ceux ou celles qui nous n’ont pas encore dit ce qu’ils/elles pensent des programmes, projets et activités 2023-2024, ils/elles peuvent le dire.
Nous vous serions très reconnaissants de nous faire part de vos commentaires…
(a) par courriel, texte (SMS), téléphone, commentaires ou critiques sur le Web
(b) dans vos propres mots, chiffres, voix et graphiques d’information (infographies).
S’il vous plaît, faites-le en disant comment les programmes, projets et activités de l’année financière 2023-2024 vous ont affectés, vous ou les personnes que vous avez recommandées pour les utiliser, ou votre organisation ou organisation sœur.
Nous vous serions très reconnaissants si vos commentaires pouvaient être précis, opportuns, respectueux et alignés avec la mission, les objectifs et les valeurs de CENFACS.
Vous pouvez évaluer (en utilisant des chiffres, des pourcentages ou des ratios) ces programmes/projets/activités ou fournir une déclaration (en utilisant des mots) ou même donner un graphique ou un tableau (sous forme de graphiques d’information). Vous pouvez également enregistrer votre voix et diffuser une vidéo ou un court métrage. C’est à vous de décider.
N’oubliez pas que nous ne pouvons aider à réduire la pauvreté et à faire les changements que nous voulons tous/toutes que si vous nous dites ce que vous pensez; pas seulement nous vous disons ce que nous faisons.
Veuillez prendre en compte notre demande de commentaires indépendants et de soutien à partir de votre témoignage.
Veuillez utiliser la fin du mois de juillet 2024 pour nous faire part de votre avis si vous ne l’avez pas fait jusqu’à présent. Merci!
Main Development
• • All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families Would Greatly Appreciate Your Help
The following Summer 2024 Humanitarian Appeal Projects summarise the needs of All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families who need your donation or funding or even influence:
∝ All Gifts for All Poor
∝ International Networking and Protection against Crises
∝ Iconic Young Carer
∝ ELCLASSICO International.
Let us briefly summarise these projects and the request of each potential beneficiaries relating to them.
• • Summer 2024 Humanitarian Appeal Projects
They are as highlighted below.
• • • All Gifts for All Poor (AG4AP)
AG4AP, which stands for All Gifts for All Poor, is the holiday makers’ and travellers’ free and voluntary contribution to poverty relief in Africa via CENFACS. It is a noble cause which consists of appealing to indiscriminately give a gift to the poor people in Africa, who are currently affected by multiple overlapping crises (such as the lingering effects of the conflicts, changing climate and the cost-of-living crisis).
The feature of this appeal is that donations or funding are done without making any distinctions between the poor.
• • • • How you can support AG4AP
Donors or funders can support this project by giving a holiday gift or treat in kind or money to support those poor people suffering from these crises (e.g., the lingering effects of the conflicts, changing climate and the cost-of-living crisis). A holiday treat is a perfect way to add a layer of happiness, healthiness and wellness to the poor.
For example, a donor or funder holidaying (or will be holidaying) in coastal areas of Africa can donate £7 or any amount of money they can afford to urban and peri-urban coastal poor who are dependent on ecosystem services and who are exposed to health risks resulting from inadequate sanitation and pollution.
This amount can contribute to the improvement of their sanitation and help fight against polluting agents.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
Their gift will enable an urban and peri-urban coastal poor family to reduce the probability of catching diseases linked to poor sanitation; in doing so the family will improve its health and hygiene while surviving against the above mentioned effects.
• • • International Networking and Protection against Crises (INPC)
INPC is designed to help and support vulnerably poor children to escape from HARMS, THREATS, ATTACKS, EXTREMISM, RADICALISATION and RISKS of any forms of exploitation, neglect and abuse in all contexts in Africa. At this time of the polycrises, threats and risks are higher than ever before. These threats and risks are even life-threatening and destroying in places of war like in the African Sahel or the north-eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo. One can think of the human rights violations against children and women in the conflicting north-eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
To win the fight against the forces of exploitation and destruction of children and over the dangers children in Africa and elsewhere are facing, it requires winning the battle of communication via a reliable flow of information and connections.
Likewise, the fight against the polycrises requires an international collaboration and exchange of information between all those who are working on poverty reduction and sustainable development.
Furthermore, if defence against harms, danger and threats from COVID-19 was done globally; the fight against the polycrises can also be conducted worldwide.
• • • • How you can support INPC
You can support this appeal by helping in networking and protection equipment or gift of communication to enable Africa-based Sister Organisations to speak loud and better access information about the polycrises to protect people and communities. particularly vulnerably poor and unprotected children.
For example, a donor or funder can give £10 to contribute to the cost of running internet and mobile solutions to work remotely and collaborate with Africa-based Sister Organisations as way of exchange life-saving information and tools on child protection.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
It will help to raise awareness and take action against the forces of exploitation and destruction of children and young generation. It can as well help children who need social protection, particularly those who receive no child or family cash or tax credit benefits and those who are forced to live on or below £3.65 a day (at 2017 purchasing parity power).
• • • Iconic Young Carer (IYC)
IYC, which is a deserving cause that supports poor children and young people who prematurely become Africa’s unpaid caregivers and labourers because of poverty, aims at improving the quality of life of young caregivers and labourers by responding to their basic needs and human rights.
In times of the lingering effects of conflicts, extreme weather and the polycrises; young carers have been forced to take caregiving and labouring role side by side with adults. They are often doing it for free and without any financial help. These young carers deserve support as well.
So, supporting these young carers could mean mitigating the lingering effects of conflicts, changing climate and polycrises on them. Your support can help preserve the lives of future generations.
• • • • How you can support IYC
You can donate whatever you can to support these iconic young carers to end these effects.
For example, a donor or funder can provide material or £5 to buy distance learning materials to help these young carers to access e-reading and digital books or to buy new books (including the cost of shipping) to support these young carers in need and suffering from digital divide.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
Your donation will help to pay for the educational and development costs of these poor children who miss school opportunities and prematurely become young caregivers and labourers. It will also assist in tackling any health issues (like emotional issue) they experience due to their premature caregiving roles and responsibilities.
• • • ELCLASSICO International (EI)
ELCLASSICO (which stands for Elevating Local Community Lives and Achievements through Sports, Sustainability and Inclusion to Common Objectives) is a CENFACS combined Sports Development, Child Protection and Sustainable Development initiative that aims at reducing child and youth poverty, while protecting children and bringing a better change to impoverished people, communities, children, young people and future generations in Africa. It is international as it involves more than one nation in Africa.
ELCLASSICO is also the Sports Development Manager’s Project, which focuses on the function and role of the Sports Development and International Managers, local elements of sustainability and aspects of Sports Development to deliver the poverty reduction outcomes in the African context and within the framework of reference of the future world of sustainable development we all want.
To organise any sports development activity and sustainability activity for children, these activities must be safe and child protected. It means that in the preparation of these activities, some health (e.g. COVID-19 secure) and child protection tests and checks must be conducted. They also need to be sustainable, that is meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. So, integrating health and safety rules as well as various dimensions of sustainable development will help to protect these activities and everybody involves in them.
• • • • How you can support EI
You can support EI to reduce poverty for families whose children would like to engage with sports and sustainable development activities. You support will enable the three aspects of this project to stick together; aspects which are: child protection, physical and sustainability aspects.
For example, a donor or funder can give less than £10 to help provide food packages to feed a family of five to seven. The food package will enable any of children benefiting from it to take part in sports development as ELCLASSICO International helps to tackle child poverty through sports development, child protection and sustainable development activities.
• • • • Who and what your support will help
Your giving will have a triple effect:
√ Protection of children, young people and their families
√ Sensitisation about climate change and environmental issues
√ Support of their development through sporting activities and other events.
• • Donation or Giving in Kind or Your Influence Regarding These Four Summer 2024 Humanitarian Relief Appeal Projects
Those who would like to support the above mentioned beneficiaries can donate money and / or give in kind or their influence.
• • • Money donation
There is no limit in terms of minimum and maximum amount to donate, despite the examples of amount we have given above.
You can donate and or support the way it suits you and your affordability.
CENFACS will accept any amount to be given or donated.
• • • Giving in kind
For those who would like to make a donation in kind, it will be a good idea to check with us that what they are giving will help to meet the above stated needs. This will help to save time, money and the environment for both sides. Also, any donation in kind must be safe and health proof.
• • • Donating your influence
You can donate your influence to reduce or end poverty in Africa in the context of this Summer humanitarian relief campaign.
To donate influence, please contact influential persons (or those having the keys) to reduce or end poverty experienced by all poor, children in need of protection, unpaid young carers and poor families with children trying to tackle poverty via sports in Africa.
You can as well influence the things or factors that determine poverty and hardships experienced by the above-mentioned poor.
Thank you in anticipation for your willingness to make helpful difference to All Poor, Unprotected Poor children, Unpaid Young Carers and Families Tackling Poverty via Sports at this challenging time of the lingering effects of the polycrises, changing climate and the cost-of-living crisis.
For more details about ways of supporting the above initiatives and other ones, please contact CENFACS.
Please remember, the fundraising campaign about the above mentioned projects will end by 22 September 2024.
CENFACS will accept any support given during and beyond the duration of this campaign.
Please do not wait to donate as the needs are pressing and urgent NOW.
We look forward to your generous support to make helpful difference for the All Poor, Poor Children, Young Carers and Families in need in Africa
Thank you for your generosity.
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• References
(1) https://www.unicef.org/esa/press-releases/1-3-children-africa-live-severe-child-food-poverty-due-inequity-conflict-and-climate (accessed in July 2024)
(2) https://www.undp.org/africa/publications/2024-africa-sustainable-development-report (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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We look forward to receiving your regular visits and continuing support throughout 2024 and beyond.
With many thanks.
