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25 December 2024
Post No. 384
The Week’s Contents of the Last Post of 2024
This year-end post, which is the 52nd one, is about covering the events of the year 2024 from the perspective of recapping the year for CENFACS’ audiences, followers, users, beneficiaries and supporters; as well as from the point of view of CENFACS’ contribution to poverty reduction and sustainable development. It highlights the outstanding points of our year-in-review campaign and uses retrospective data. The main contents of this post are as follows.
• 2024 Year-in-review Impact Report
• Year-end Triple Action Giving: Peace, Hope and Difference
• Year-end Advice- and Guidance-giving Services
… And much more!
Festive Season’s Key Messages
• 2024 Year-in-review Impact Report
The above mentioned report is an evaluation of what happened in this ending year (2024). It is not an annual report or an annual return. It is CENFACS‘ performance highlights and lowlights as well as insights, outsights, challenges, wins/successes, learnings and areas of development throughout 2024.
The report, which is a brief summary of 2024, will help to learn what went well and what did not go well within and around CENFACS.
The report helps to communicate connections with all of you who worked with us and/or helped us in our beautiful and noble cause of poverty reduction. It is as well a summary of ongoing dialogue within CENFACS, and between CENFACS and its stakeholders.
The report is an impact report as it explains the effect or impression made by work we undertook – through a number of projects and programmes – with users and beneficiaries with the help of our supporters; effect or impression on those who needed support and help on their way towards relief or poverty reduction.
It is finally a forward-looking exercise to set goals for 2025 and explain how we can engage our charitable objects in 2025 and beyond.
Under the Main Development section of this post you will find key highlights of this 2024 Year-in-review Impact Report.
• Year-end Triple Action Giving: Peace, Hope and Difference
• • What is the Season’s Relief Triple Action Giving?
It is about fighting poverty and hardships in a number of fronts over the Festive Season, particularly by helping…
(a) to bring peace,
(b) to create hope
(c) and to make a meaningful difference.
Let us briefly explain each of the three givings (that is, peace, hope and difference).
• • • Peace via the Gifts of Peace
Our celebratory theme for the Season’s Reliefs is Peace and continues to be alive to the end of this season. The Gifts of Peace, which are one of CENFACS‘ festive favourites, are the set piece of the Season’s Reliefs that provides the absence of conflicts within ourselves as well as between us and others.
In terms of projects and programmes in Africa, the Gifts of Peace try to support poor people and communities so that they can navigate their ways towards freedoms from wars, armed conflicts, disease disturbance and disorder from natural events.
For those who are looking for fundraising appeals or projects to fund as festive gifts over this festive time, Gifts of Peace as an appeal is a valuable proposal they could consider. They can try any of the 12 Gift Ideas to reduce poverty and sustain development, mentioned in the Gifts of Peace making our year-end campaign. They can unwrap their Gifts of Peace for those in need this festive Season.
To enquire about and or fund the Gifts of Peace, please contact CENFACS.
• • • Hope through the Gift of Light
Our theme for the Season of Light is Hope and is still featuring what we have planned to achieve over this season. The Gift of Light helps to bring hope to those who are in the darkness and need some lights to see life through other ways.
Regarding the projects and programmes in our sphere of operation in Africa, we try to work – through the Gift of Light – with hopeless, desperate and destitute people and communities so that they can rebuild confidence and faith in themselves and continue to believe that they can find light and move away from darkness in the future.
• • • Difference by means of CENFACS’ Zero Waste e-Store
Shopping and donating goods at our CENFACS’ Zero Waste e-Store is the third giving. It is the festive difference that can be made through a CENFACS’ Zero Waste e-Store. It can be made via
σ Purchases to directly support CENFACS‘ noble and beautiful cause of poverty reduction
σ Goods donations to promote sustainability and reduce waste, including donors’ household circularity
σ Affordable gifts your can find for the festive occasion
σ Volunteering opportunities you can provide to volunteers through your good purchases and donations.
We are asking goods donors and buyers to DO SOMETHING MEANINGFULLY DIFFERENT THIS SEASON. To smooth the process of donating and buying goods, we are offering the following options:
∝ Safe collection of goods for recycling; that is we can arrange for goods to be safely collected at an agreed location, day and time under our Recycle and Give policy
∝ ‘Click and Collect’ facility for goods e-buyers.
Every time you shop at CENFACS’ Zero-Waste e-Store, you make a helpful difference to people in need over this festive time. Amongst these people are those who are trying to fight poverty induced by the high costs of living.
The above are the Season’s Relief Triple Action Giving. Each of these action givings will help to reduce poverty over the festive period and beyond.
We can only help reduce and possibly end multi-dimensional poverty as well as poverty induced by the high costs of living if you help us to do so. This time of the year is a unique opportunity for you, once a year, to change lives through your invaluable action giving, however small it may be.
Please, don’t miss this marvellous opportunity of the year and the end of the year. There is a high demand for poverty reduction.
To donate goods and/or shop, please go to: http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
The above-mentioned Year-end Triple Action Giving or Year-end Fundraising Campaign continues until the last day, hour, minute and second of 2024.
For those who would like to donate to our End-of-year Asks and any other festive projects or campaigns or even causes before 2024 ends, please do not hesitate to donate. You can still make a helpful difference before the last second of 31/12/2024.
To donate, just contact CENFACS with your donation by any of these means of communications: text, phone, e-mail and contact form on this website.
• Year-end Advice- and Guidance-giving Services
The Festive Season’s Arrangements below explain that we are in holiday break until the 5th of January 2025. However, some of our projects and campaigns are either self-running or designed to run throughout the holiday season like the festive holiday. Two of these holiday projects are the Advice- and Guidance-giving ones. We are providing advice for project beneficiaries or users as well as guidance to donors/funders.
• • Year-end Advice-giving Service to Project Beneficiaries and Users
During the festive period not everybody or member of our community can afford to celebrate on the New Year’s Eve. There are people who still need accommodation, food, income, guidance, support, help against loneliness, etc. They may also need life-saving support of various kinds to cope and survive while other people, the lucky ones, are busy preparing themselves for the New Year’s Eve festivities.
Because of this on-going need and demand within the community, we have maintained a minimum level of advice-giving service to e-work with those who desperately need advice to reduce poverty or any type of hardships they are facing and do not have anywhere else to ask for help and advice, especially at this challenging time of the high costs of the living.
The service, which will help them navigate the above-mentioned challenges and hardships of the end of the year, includes all the elements of CENFACS’ Advice, Guidance and Information Service to users. We can as well provide advice on the following:
σ capacity building and development
σ financial planning for the coming year
etc.
If you are one of our members and facing serious hardship during the festive period, you can e-contact CENFACS for advice, guidance, information and support. We can work with you to smoothly transition into the New Year.
If you are not one of our members and would like to discuss this year-in-review advice project, please still e-contact CENFACS.
• • Year-end Advice-giving Service to Donors and Funders
In order to make the year-end giving process effective and meaningful for donors and funders, we are offering them guidance and support. The guidance service is on the way they can effectively support CENFACS‘ noble and beautiful causes of poverty reduction during this festive time.
This support to them is on the following
σ how to strategically plan so that donors’ and funders’ contributions align with their philanthropic goals and values
σ how to assess the impact of donors’ and funders’ donations
σ how to understand tax benefits through their donations (for instance, when they make Gift Aid Declaration).
If you are donor or funder and would like to give to CENFACS’ causes during the festive period, but need guidance to do it, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
Festive Season’s Extra Messages
• Festive Season’s Arrangements: from 23 December 2024 to 5 January 2025
• Help for Your Year-in-review Accounts
• E-discussion on Volunteering to Find Climate Finance and a New Development Model, and Supporting All in Development Volunteer Scheme
• Festive Season’s Arrangements: from 23 December 2024 to 5 January 2025
The following are the arrangements we have made for the above stated period.
• • Queries and Enquiries
During the festive holidays, we will only handle online queries and enquiries until the 5th of January 2025. However, our All-in-Development Winter e-discussion on Volunteering to Find Climate Finance and a New Development Model is still on until the 5th of January 2025 as planned.
• • Opening Hours and Days: 24/7
We are open online 24 hours and 7 days of week.
• • Visits
You can only visit us online.
• • Festive Donations
Our festive campaigns highlight not only the projects and activities that are related to CENFACS’ demand, but also and mostly to the needs and asks of those living in poverty around this time of the year and of the continuing disruption of the lingering effects of the high costs of living.
Those who want to donate to our fundraising campaigns and projects (such as Gifts of Peace, Light and Transition) are welcome to do so.
Their festive support or donations will help bring a Blaze of Hope and Peace to those in need, particularly at this challenging time of the high costs of living.
As well as donating, there are other ways one can support. These other ways range from spreading the message about CENFACS’ work and campaigns to visiting our online store for shopping.
All the above initiatives can create magical reliefs during this Festive Season and disturbing moment of the lingering effects of the high costs of living.
• • Season of Light
Although our Season of Light has just kicked off, some of our services and activities (such as advocacy, in-person fundraising events, etc.) as well as development campaigns are scaled down until the 5th of January 2025.
• • What’s On from 23 December 2024 to 5 January 2025!
Since 23 December 2024 we broke for the festive holidays. However, there are projects that are essential including in festive times. Two of them are advice- and guidance-giving ones, which will still be run online.
This is because evidence shows that in any difficult moments of human history or crisis, the poorest always suffer. They also suffer during the happiest times of the festive celebrations. They do not have festive celebration as such, just as they could be the ones bearing the brunt of the most negative socio-economic effects of the festive celebrations. Many of them need support which includes advice at any time.
Additionally, it is important that those who want to help them or donate to CENFACS’ noble and beautiful causes of poverty reduction find ways of giving easy, not complicate. For this reason, we are also available for funders and donors to guide them to fund and donate easily.
• • Delays Regarding Call and E-mail Responses
People should expect delay from us in responding to their calls and e-mails. We heavily rely on volunteers for most of our services, who are sharing the Winter e-discussion with us during this Festive Time. Some of them are already on holiday.
• • Emergency and Exceptions
In case of emergency or exceptional circumstances, please do not hesitate to text, phone, e-mail and complete the contact form on CENFACS’ website. We will respond to your message as soon as we can.
We apologize for any inconvenience or upset this may cause.
We thank you all for your invaluable and sustained support during 2024 and look forward to your continued and further support in the New Year.
We wish you a Very Healthy, Safe and Peaceful Festive Season!
• Help for Your Year-in-review Accounts
How to successfully close your end-of-year personal or family accounts and get prepared for the New Year accounts before the end of financial year
We do not only carry out our own accounts review. We also work with users to review their accounts at the end of each year. The review will help them gain insights into their financial matters, spot the areas of improvement and make informed decisions for 2025.
Year-in-review accounts for users or project beneficiaries involve a summary of their financial activities over 2024. These accounts help them assess their financial health and plan for the future. They include income summary, expense report, savings, investments, debt overview, financial goals, budget analysis and tax information.
It is theoretically known that the financial year closes in April and the State budget starts in April of each year. For example, the current tax year ends on 5 April 2025 in the UK.
It is a good practice to use the opportunity of the end of the civil year to start to work out the balances of one’s personal or family accounts.
To help those who are struggling to close their year-end accounts of 2024, we will be looking at, from the start of January 2025 when we return, how to successfully close your personal or family financial accounts and prepare your new accounts in the New Year.
It is always a good practice to start early before the deadlines of the financial year!
It is wise to work out your year-end accounts early so that you could enter the New Year with a good understanding of your financial position while keeping financial monitoring and control on accounts. In doing so, one can know areas of financial improvement to sort out their financial situation in the New Year.
This year-end financial control project or exercise includes income boost and other elements making our campaign to reduce and end income poverty. This is without forgetting the elements of Financial Capacity and Capability Building Programme, Financial Stability Programme/Scheme and Zero Income Deficit Campaign we conducted.
For those who may be interested in this year-end financial monitoring and control project, they can contact CENFACS in the New Year.
• E-discussion on Volunteering to Find Climate Finance and a New Development Model, and Supporting All in Development Volunteer Scheme
• • E-discussion on Volunteering to Find Climate Finance and a New Development Model
Our Winter e-discussion about Volunteering to Find Climate Finance and a New Development Model has so far dealt with the following:
σ Volunteering to increase financial support for projects and programmes of CO2 emission reduction
σ Volunteering to mobilise climate funds and engage climate finance stakeholders and investors
σ Volunteering to find a new development model
σ Volunteering for climate finance transparency and accountability.
We have paused this e-discussion to give ourselves time to reflect on the planned areas e-discussed so far and to have a festive break as many activities are scaled down or close because of festive holidays.
After the reflection period and festive break, we shall resume our e-discussion on 04 and 05 January 2025, dates on which we will focus on Impact Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning as well as Action Plan for 2025.
While our pause is going on, we are asking for support to CENFACS’ All in Development Volunteer Scheme (AiDVS).
• • Supporting All in Development Volunteer Scheme
For those who would like to support CENFACS’ All in Development Volunteer Scheme (AiDVS). There are many simple helpful and useful ways of adding great value to our voluntary work. Among them, are the 12-themed enhancers or ways of adding great value to CENFACS’ AiDVS, as highlighted in our post of 11 December 2024 (1).
These 12-themed enhancers or ways of adding great value to CENFACS’ AiDVS are:
1) Gift ideas for the best ways of monitoring, evaluating and reviewing projects and programmes in the New Year
They could include project management software, books and guides, evaluation tools, digital gadgets, free subscriptions to journals and publications, etc.
2) Money-saving and scrimping tips from scrimpers for AiDVS
Tips from seasonal scrimpers could be on budgeting wisely (to track expenses and set limits), grocery savings (e.g., donate coupons), reduction of utility bills, financial tools (like cashback apps), smart shopping, etc.
3) Festive deals and packages for AiDVS
For instance, one can offer New Year’s Eve Packages, discount codes and offers (seasonal discounts, package deals, early booking deals, etc.)
4) Festive free coupons, promo codes and vouchers for AiDVS
They include free vouchers from popular retailers or brands, percentage price off orders and saving on selected items, which can help AiDVS save on their holiday shopping.
5) Net-zero or low carbon economic products to protect the environment and nature
To name the few, we can mention energy-efficient appliances, renewable energy products, eco-friendly products, water-saving devices, sustainable food choices, waste reduction solutions, etc.
6) Digital and media support to better volunteer for a climate neutral and sustainable world
Options include online platforms and courses, digital tools for activism, volunteer matching platforms, youth engagement, etc.
7) Health and safety gifts for healthy and safe volunteering in the New Year
These gifts can include aid kits, personal protective equipment, hydration and nutrition, comfort and ergonomics, health and wellness, safety training and resources, emergency preparedness, etc. These gifts will help volunteers stay healthy and safe for their well-being and the success of their efforts.
8) Wintry and festive giveaways to volunteer for a net zero greenhouse gas emissions world
To illustrate, we can mention free products, gift cards, free tickets, etc.
9) Generative Artificial Intelligence volunteering tools to improve the efficiency of volunteering
Tools include personalised volunteer matching programme, automated consumption, content generation, data analysis and insights, training and onboarding, resource allocation, feedback and evaluation.
10) Festive price bundling for flexible volunteering
Ideas for bundling offers can include volunteer packages, discounted event tickets, gift cards and vouchers, free products and services, recognition and rewards, and flexible volunteering options.
11) Distance working and gift technologies
Amongst the examples, we can name cloud technology, volunteer management software, apps, virtual volunteering tools, apps for remote volunteering, virtual volunteer tools, gift technology for volunteers (e-gift cards, virtual recognition, tech gadgets, tablets, laptops, etc.)
12) Net-zero energy saving products to volunteer
We can mention home energy efficiency since many of our AiDVS work from home, renewable solutions, transportation (e.g., e-bikes), sustainable products, energy monitoring tools, etc.
The above-mentioned enhancers will contribute to streamline volunteer management processes, enhance volunteer satisfaction, and support a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions world.
The enhancers – which could be wintry and festive news, information and products – will assist volunteers (that is, short-term, episodic, regular, ongoing and virtual volunteers) to better help out CENFACS’ noble and beautiful cause of poverty reduction.
They will also assist in recruiting and easily managing volunteers while improving volunteer experience and the effectiveness of our work on poverty reduction.
Additionally, they will contribute in tracking volunteers and their work.
For instance, gift technologies could enable to automate volunteers’ tasks to free up resources and time as well as increase volunteer engagement in our poverty reduction work.
To support AiDVS with your wintry or festive gift, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
To e-discuss Volunteering to Find Climate Finance and a New Development Model, please communicate with CENFACS.
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• Rapport Rétrospectif et d’Impact de l’Année 2024
Le rapport mentionné ci-dessus est une évaluation de ce qui s’est passé au cours de cette année (2024) qui se termine. Il ne s’agit pas d’un rapport annuel ou d’un bilan social. Il s’agit des points forts et des points faibles de la performance du CENFACS, ainsi que des idées, des défis, des victoires/réussites, des apprentissages et des domaines de développement tout au long de 2024.
Le rapport, qui est un bref résumé de 2024, aidera à savoir ce qui s’est bien passé et ce qui n’a pas bien fonctionné au sein et autour du CENFACS.
Le rapport aide à communiquer les liens avec tous (toutes) ceux (celles) d’entre vous qui ont travaillé avec nous et/ou qui nous ont aidés dans notre belle cause de réduction de la pauvreté. Il s’agit également d’une synthèse du dialogue en cours au sein du CENFACS, et entre le CENFACS et l’ensemble de ses parties prenantes.
Il s’agit d’un rapport d’impact car il explique l’effet ou l’impression produite par le travail que nous avons entrepris – à travers un certain nombre de projets et de programmes – avec les utilisateurs (rices) et les bénéficiaires avec l’aide de nos sympathisant(e)s; sur ceux ou celles qui avaient besoin de soutien et d’aide sur le chemin de l’aide ou de la réduction de la pauvreté.
C’est enfin un exercice prospectif que de se fixer des objectifs pour 2025 et expliquer comment nous pouvons nous engager dans nos objectifs de bienfaisance en 2025 et au-delà.
Pour plus de détails sur le RapportRétrospectif et d’Impact de l’Année 2024 du CENFACS, veuillez contacter CENFACS.
Festive Season’s Main Development
• 2024 Year-in-review Impact Report
How the year 2024 has gone within and around CENFACS
The following contents make this report:
a)A brief Summary of the Year
b)The Theme of 2024 Year-in-review Campaign
c)How Did the Year 2024 Go through from within and around CENFACS?
d) 2024 Key Produce or Achievements
e)Looking Forward to 2025 (or Commitments for the Year 2025)
f) 2024 Gratitude.
Let’s look at each of these contents.
• • The Year’s Brief Summary
2024 has been a great year as volunteers continue to show their commitment to our noble and beautiful cause of poverty reduction. We have recorded some good performance regarding the work carried out by our Africa-based Sister Organisations for the projects they solely ran and for the humanitarian appeals (e.g., Burundi’s Flood Victims Ask for Your Aid) we made together with them.
However, we could have done more if we had enough funding. We could have engaged more not-for-profit investors to invest in more Africa-based Sister Organisations (ASOs). In this respect, the majority of Africa-based Sister Organisations suggested to scale up our Matching Organisation-Investor Programme so that it could bring in more investors to invest in poverty reduction in Africa.
Besides that, we worked with ASOs on private homeownership and secure land tenure as way of reducing poverty. This work showed that a good allocation of power on home and land to everybody could help further reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development. We also worked with them on investment management. We learnt how African charities developed and applied their strategy to manage investment risks by spreading investments across asset classes and industries. Pension fund management was another area of work we carried out together. Many of them have pension schemes and defined contribution schemes that need improvement when considering pension funding risks.
For 2025, among other goals (like developing projects of land restoration, boosting drought resilience, and sharing prosperity with the poor in Africa), the goal will be to get more support for the Matching Organisation-Investor Programme.
• • Theme of CENFACS’ 2024 Year-in-Review Campaign
The theme for this review is celebrating the wins with a focus on highlighting the accomplishments made in 2024 by building forward better together – with beneficiaries and supporters – greener, cleaner, safer, inclusive and climate-resilient future within the context of squeezed household spending.
• • How Did the Year 2024 Go through from within and around CENFACS?
To underline the way in which the year 2024 went from within and around CENFACS, we are going to highlight the key takeaways of 2024 and the contributions we made.
• • • Key takeaways of the year
The points or facts to remember about 2024 from within and around CENFACS are as follows.
∝) 2024 as a year of transitions out of or away from poverty
2024 has proven to be a year of transitions, of using the notion of transition as tool to understand paradigmatic changes in the lives of those in need. We worked with our users through a series or set of interconnected transition tasks or activities (in total, we had 12 Transition Project episodes) with the aim of helping them to transition out of poverty. These tasks or activities were undertaken each month of 2024 within the requirements and limitations of CENFACS‘ existing and acquirable resources, capacities and assets.
∝) 2024 as a tricennial year with the Tricennial Celebration or the Tricennium or a celebration of the remarkable journey of CENFACS as an idea for good
It has been a remembrance of CENFACS for its four existential features, which are: a) CENFACS as a Sustainable Creation b) CENFACS as a Unique Creation c) CENFACS as an Inspiring and Transformative Creation d) CENFACS as a Creation for Hope and Future.
∝) 2024 as a year of raising awareness about private homeownership and secure land tenure to reduce poverty in Africa
Many of Africa-based Sister Organisations (ASOs) noticed that the level of poverty due to homeless and landless was high in their areas of operations in Africa. ASOs worked with these homeless and landless people by helping them to find inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable settlements so that they could transition out of poverty linked to the lack of homeownership and secure land tenure.
∝) 2024 as a year of charity trade and investment
2024 has also been the year of working with poor and vulnerable beneficiaries in trying to create usable means to live off and push poverty away via trade and investment. It has been the financial year of working with ASOs that wanted to invest and make the most of their long-term funds and protect their charities’ income against economic events (such as the impact of inflation, geo-economic crisis). It has been about working with them so that they could find investment channels to generate better returns than simply holding cash with them.
∝) 2024 as a year of data and insight skills to manage your households
Using free frontline tools of poverty reduction from CENFACS‘ poverty reduction box, we conducted basic data analytics and empowered user households with data and insight skills. Through Data and Insights Advocacy and Skills project, we particularly worked with households making the CENFACS Community on the following: data storytelling and communication skills, financial plan updates, data and insight skills, financial resilience programme, and systemic resilience capacity rebuilding projects.
∝) 2024 as a year of system reset and change stories
Amongst the stories received, we had 2 great stories of changing our mindsets, 4 remarkable stories of seeing wholes, 3 amazing stories of understanding connections, 2 moving stories of building a genuine connection and one memorable story of creating a new system of poverty reduction
∝) 2024 as a year of following the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods and systems
We followed the direction of poverty reduction via aquatic foods by focussing on four variables as follows: 1) price (affordability of aquatic foods) 2) environment (low-climate impact of aquatic foods) 3) consumption (aquatic food and consumption poverty reduction) and 4) technology/production (low-cost technology to produce aquatic foods).
This follow-up enabled our users to understand how aquatic foods and systems can help reduce poverty.
∝) 2024 as a year of spatial analysis of poverty with the redevelopment of brown spaces
2024 has as well been a year of engaging space to deal with poverty induced or linked to brown space. It has been a year of addressing spatialisation of poverty. We explored with poor living in or around brown spaces ways of reducing or ending this type of poverty. Besides that, we made efforts with them to reduce health hazards from brown spaces.
∝) 2024 as a year of advocacy to save critically endangered fish species via Mbisi project
Through the ‘Mbisi‘ project and ‘A la une‘ (Autumn Leaves of Action for the Upkeep of the Nature) campaign, we tirelessly worked with the community and others outside our community to raise awareness of the upkeep of endangered fish species like
Bagrus meridionalis, Treur River barb, Sandfish, Estuarine Pipefish Syngnathus Watermeyeri, Haplochromis granti, Basking Shark, African Wedgefish (Rynchobatus Luebbert) and Barbel spp.
∝) 2024 as a second year of Matching Organisation-Investor Programme
We quarterly ran four matching 0rganisation-investor projects which were on the following four areas: property, charity shop, farming charitable loan and African art investment. These projects, which were the matching opportunities of the year 2024, offered to both ASOs and not-for-profit investors a chance to make their dream come true. In other words, there were occasions for ASOs to find the investment they were looking for and not-for-profit investors the organisation to invest in, and both of them could start the New Year with certainty.
• • 2024 Key Produce or Achievements
2024 has been a notable year of poverty reduction produce or accomplishments. It will be known as a tricennial year, a year of celebration of the thirty years of remarkable journey of CENFACS as an idea for good.
2024 has also been a memorable year as we reset and change our system of poverty reduction. It is a year of system reset and change to respond to the post-pandemic needs and aspirations of our users and ASOs.
2024 has finally been a year of wellness as we added wellness to our Summer Projects of Happiness and Healthiness. Wellness – that is, the active pursuit of activities, choices and lifestyles that lead to a state of holistic health, according to the Global Wellness Institute (2) – was the missing piece which many of our users needed and highly demanded in order for them to continue improve the quality of their lives.
The above are just the few selected accomplishments or produce we wanted to share with audiences and supporters in this year-in-review campaign. However, for those who would like get more insights into them and other achievements of the year 2024, they can let us know.
• • Looking Forward to 2025 (or Commitments for the Year 2025)
In 2025, we shall undertake the following:
a) Initiatives featuring the season of light like light (or energy) and energy transition projects, particularly these initiatives will be about finding finance to fund energy transition and a new development model to continue to reduce poverty
b) Projects relating to land restoration and boosting drought resilience in Africa to echo the messages and outcomes from COP16 held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (3); projects such as healthy soils, resilient crops, nutritious food, sustainable land management and land degradation neutrality will be developed
c) Projects of shared prosperity with the poor which will include two measures: the Global Prosperity Gap and the number of African economies with high inequality.
Besides that, we shall carry on with the financial empowerment programme of our users to reduce financial poverty and mitigate the lingering effects of previous and current crises with some of the initiatives (like Financial Monitoring and Controls in 2025).
We shall as well continue to develop household-focused and area-focused programmes to support poor and vulnerable households so that they can build their assets to overcome intergenerational poverty.
We shall finally carry on to light a Blaze of Hope for every place and everyone who will need it in our identified area of operation.
• • 2024 Gratitude
To end this year-in-review impact report, we would like to continue to thank our poverty reduction producers, enablers and supporters as we did in our last week’s post (4).
Looking back at 2024, we are filled with gratitude for them. 2024 has been a memorable year for CENFACS for those who inspired us in responding to local and African needs at the challenging time of the lingering effects of the high costs of living. We could not have made it through this year without their support.
We thank them for making possible 2024 as another meritorious year of poverty reduction and sustainable development, as well as for what we accomplished together. Let us make next year even better for those in need.
For further information or a full story of 2024 and to discuss any issues regarding this 2024 Year-in-Review Impact Report, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
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• References
(1) cenfacs.org.uk/2024/12/11 (accessed in December 2024)
(2) https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/what-is-wellness/ (accessed in July 2024)
(3) https://unccd.int/cop16 (accessed in December 2024)
(4) cenfacs.org.uk/bog/2024/12/18 (accessed in December 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.
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