Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
02 December 2020
Post No. 172
The Week’s Contents
• What’s on in December 2020: Festive Guide!
• Festive Shopping and Donations after Lockdown 2
• Festive Income Boost, In Focus for 2020 Edition: Income Deficit – How Not to Carry Forward an Income Deficit in 2021
… and much, much more!
Key Messages
• What’s on in December 2020: Festive Guide!
To keep the festive month and season interesting as well as with healthcare against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, we have brought exciting offers and/or new developments which can be found in the Main Development section of this post.
The above initiatives next to the key dates from CENFACS December 2020 Diary including those listed below are the ones that would make the festive month and the Season of Light at CENFACS. They have been selected for their special features which make them in tune with the season’s theme. They command the following features:
=> They are seasonally blended projects aiming at providing helpful and healthy reliefs during the festive time and beyond.
=> They are a stunning selection of poverty-relieving contents designed to help not only to reduce poverty but also to overcome the health and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.
=> They can facilitate the creation of a new life in the New Year and the post-coronavirus development world.
The following are the selected December 2020 initiatives or Season’s Reliefs:
♦ Festive Income Builder, Booster & Calculator, In Focus for 2020: Income Deficit – How Not to Carry Forward an Income Deficit in 2021
♦ Community Value Chains: CENFACS as a Community with a Poverty Reduction Mission
♦ Post-coronavirus Volunteering
♦ Advocates against Sanitation Poverty and Unsustainable Ecology
♦ Thanking 2020 Year Makers & Enablers
♦ Gifts of Peace (Edition 2020/2021)
♦ Run, Vote & Play for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development (Action-Results 2020)
The above mentioned projects would make the first part of Season’s Reliefs as being announced above. Some of them intertwine between our monthly and seasonal development calendars. All will depend whether one is reading our development calendar on a monthly or seasonal basis.
To support and or enquire about Season’s Reliefs, please contact CENFACS.
All these initiatives can be found in CENFACS Festive Guide. This Guide for Festive Season is made of the following contents: festive services, gifts of peace and the theme of season’s reliefs.
For further details about the Festive Guide, read under the Main Development section of this post.
• Festive SHOPPING and DONATIONS at http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/After Lockdown 2
• • CENFACS Charity e-Store Reopen!
CENFACS Charity e-Shop is now reopened for both online purchase and goods donations.
We are following the strict restrictions and guidance regarding the control and surveillance of Covid-19 as well as the protection and saving of lives.
We have enhanced our sanitation and cleaning methods and practices as well as we have updated them following the latest information relating to the three-tiered system.
We hope you are doing the same in the interest of public health.
Many lives have been threatened and destroyed by the coronavirus pandemic. Those who managed to survive, they need help. We need help to help them come out poverty and hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic and associated prolong effects.
To purchase goods, please go to: http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
• • Festive season is an opportunity to do something against poverty
Every occasion or every season is an opportunity to do something against poverty and hardships. The festive season, which is a great time to share precious moments with your love ones, is also a period to spread a little extra happiness to those who do not have.
We understand that many people including our supporters have been seriously affected by the health and economic effects of the coronavirus and related lockdowns. However, for people who are already living in poverty, these effects are even intolerable and unbearable for them. There is a reason to support them during this difficult time for everybody.
You can give your unwanted and unneeded goods to CENFACS’ Charity e-Store, the shop built to help relieve poverty, including coronavirus-induced poverty. You can buy second hand goods and bargain priced new items and much more. Amongst the goods to donate, we are asking carbon neutral goods as well.
• • Donation of CARBON NEUTRAL GOODS this Festive Season
You can donate carbon neutral goods to help reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and poverty, while creating an opportunity to save non-renewable natural resources. This type of donation can boost the circular economy and improve the upkeep of the nature.
CENFACS’ Charity e-Store needs your support for Festive SHOPPING and DONATIONS.
You can do something different this Festive Season by SHOPPING or DONATING GOODS at CENFACS Charity e-Store.
You can DONATE or SHOP or do both:
√ DONATE unwanted GOODS and PRODUCTS to CENFACS Charity e-Store during the festive period and beyond
√ SHOP at CENFACS Charity e-Store to support good and deserving causes of poverty relief during the festive period and beyond
Your SHOPPING and or GOODS DONATIONS will help to the Upkeep of the Nature and to reduce poverty as well as the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Festive Income Boost, In Focus for 2020 Edition: Income Deficit – How Not to Carry Forward an Income Deficit in 2021
The 2020 Edition of our Autumn ICDP (Individual Capacity Development Programme) resource, known as Festive Income Boost and which is designed to support Multi-dimensionally Income Poor Children, Young People and Families (MIPCYPFs) was already published at the beginning of November 2020.
This year, our focus is on Income Deficit; that is on ways of Not Carrying Forward Income Deficit into 2021. We have included it in these Key Messages as we are in the Festive Month. Also, it is an occasion to remind the CENFACS Community that this resource or additional support is available for use during the festive season.
The resource is available as a booklet from CENFACS Charity e-Store. It is normally free of charge but we will appreciate a donation of £5 to help us help reduce poverty and the cost of renewing and producing this resource on an annual basis.
At this turbulent time of the coronavirus three-tiered system, we need financial help like many voluntary and charitable organisations do.
To order and or find out more about the Autumn ICDP resource, please contact CENFACS with your mailing details.
Extra Messages
• Advocates against Sanitation Poverty and Unsustainable Ecology
The Advocates against Sanitation Poverty and Unsustainable Ecology, which is an environmentally friendly health project, extends our work on sanitation poverty. It does it with a particular emphasis on sanitation poverty and unsustainable ecological externalities within the mining sector.
Through the Advocates against Sanitation Poverty and Unsustainable Ecology, we are taking stock of the issues discussed in the 67th Issue of FACS, which consisted in Extractive Mining Activities, Ecology, Sanitation and Poverty Reduction in Africa in the Era of COVID-19. The 67th Issue provides us some pointers about how Africa-based Sister Organisations can bring extractive activities in line with poverty reduction and ecological sustainability.
• • Who are these advocates?
They are the Africa-based Sister Organisations and anyone who can hold to account the extractive activities in Africa for the sake of improved sanitation and sustainable ecology.
• • What are these advocates asking in order to reduce sanitation poverty and unsustainable ecology induced by mining activities?
They want…
√ The stepping up of the holding to account extractive activities with negative externalities
√ Concrete action taken against environmental degradation linked to mining activities
√ The increase in the share of value added from extractive mining activities to the reduction of poverty
√ Mining codes to be designed to meet the needs of the reduction of poverty and environmental degradation
√ Ecological improvement and progress in hygiene in Africa in the age of COVID-19
The above is just a highlight of what the Advocates against Sanitation Poverty and Unsustainable Ecology are asking for to reduce sanitation poverty and unsustainable ecology.
As far as CENFACS is concerned, we shall continue to support their action and advocate along with them so that improved sanitation and sustainable ecology continue to on top of the agenda in the post-pandemic development time.
As we move into 2021, one can hope that health insecurity and sanitation poverty in the mining fields will be taken seriously.
For those who would like to add their voices to this advocacy for the relief of sanitation poverty and unsustainable ecology, they are welcome to contact CENFACS.
• “A la une” (Autumn Leaves of Action for the Upkeep of the Nature in Existence) Campaign – In Focus on 30/11/2020: Impact Monitoring and Evaluation
Although we finished to compose the seven notes or themed activities of the “A la une” Campaign during our 7-week campaign, this campaign for the Upkeep of the Nature does not stop with these notes.
We are now carrying on with the collection and analysis of information regarding this 7-week campaign in order to get its impact. The findings from this Impact Monitoring and Analysis will help to figure out what has been achieved through this campaign and give us some flavour about the future direction of this campaign.
As part of this Impact Monitoring and Analysis exercise, we would like to ask to those who have been following our 7-week campaign to share with us their feelings and thoughts about these two areas:
(a) The overall “A la une” Campaign
(b) Any of the themed activities you/they followed with us during this campaign
By sharing with us your feelings and thoughts about “A la une” Campaign, this could suggest that you value our work and show interest in what we are trying to achieve as an organisation generally and or in respect to the Upkeep of the Nature specifically.
You can share your feelings and thoughts with us by:
√ Phoning
√ Texting
√ E-mailing
√ Completing the contact form with your feelings and thoughts
When you are sharing your feelings or thoughts on the matter, please do not make statements to only please us. We do not expect people to please us. Instead, we would like you to give an objective and fair opinion.
We would like to thank in anticipation those who will be giving their opinions about the “A la une” Campaign.
• The Month of Economics of Education and Skill Formation (Skills Development Month): What have we learnt and what can we develop from it?
The Skills Development Month is now closed. Through this month, we focussed on the following: health and economic protection skills; financial and economic skills; survival, coping and transition skills; and income-making and –saving skills.
As part of keeping the culture of continuous learning and professional development within CENFACS, we are examining what the running of Skills Development and Skills Focus have brought and indicated to us. We are particularly looking at the learning and development priorities and initiatives for the post-pandemic and post-exited economic development worlds.
In this exercise, those who have been following the running of the Skills Development Month with us can as well add their inputs to our learning and development experience so that we can know the skills gap that need to be filled up in 2021 and beyond.
To add your input to our learning and development exercise, just contact CENFACS.
Main Development
• What’s on in December 2020: Festive Guide!
• • Festive Guide
Inside this guide, there are three main listings: Festive Services, Gifts of Peace and Season’s Relief Theme.
• • • Festive Services
These services are made of two types of projects:
(1) Regular or on-going projects are continuous including during the festive period. The project known as All-year Round Projects (Triple Value Initiatives) is one of them.
(2) Projects for the festive occasion only; projects which are specially designed for that occasion. The project Community Value Chains is one of them.
Both types of projects are included in our December 2020 programme and planned to be delivered over the month of December 2020.
• • • Gifts of Peace
These are CENFACS Wintry Gift Appeal initiative to support people living in poverty in Africa.
CENFACS’ Winter Gift of Peace to Africa is indeed …
√ A festive life-sustaining support that helps to reduce poverty and bring sustainable peace
√ A festive giving to acknowledge and do something about poverty over the festive period, which is also an occasion to trans-give and think of those who are not as fortunate as others
√ A festive means to support those who don’t have peace because of poverty, particularly in the developing regions of the world like Africa.
As the world is experiencing the economic and health effects of the coronavirus pandemic, there are many of these people who desperately need support.
However, we must acknowledge that this is a challenging time for both those who support and those who receive that support. Because of this collective challenge, we are going to make sure that our appeal reflects the circumstances of the coronavirus time.
For more information about this Wintry appeal, contact CENFACS.
• • • Season’s Relief Theme
The theme for Season’s Reliefs which would carry us throughout the entire festive period is Peace. The Festive Season, which is part of the worldwide celebration, kicks off in December for CENFACS and ends by the 31st of January in the New Year.
During the Festive Season, we normally start the Season of Light. The Season of Light is one of the four seasons of CENFACS Development Calendar. It is the Winter season which goes on until March and is featured by Winter Lights and Light Projects or Light Appeals.
• • What the Month December is about at CENFACS
December is a month of Income Generation, Record Tracking and Winter Lights at CENFACS.
• • • December as Income Generation Month
December is the Income Generation month according to CENFACS monthly development calendar and planner. It is the month during which we advocate and provide tips, hints and other types of advisory support on how to generate additional income to cover shortage in regular income, by using other avenues within the boundaries of the law.
This additional income can enable multi-dimensional income poor children, young people and families (C, YP & Fs) to exercise their basic human right to celebrate the end of the year in their own way.
However, this December 2020 will be mostly about Income Deficit Reduction as we highlighted in this year Edition of Festive Income Boost, rather than Income Generation. This is due to the prolong health and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have created the collapse of many ways and capacities of earning income especially for the kinds of people we are trying to support. Many of them have become further income deficit. To help them not to carry forward income deficit on their accounts in 2021, we will be working with them during the festive season to balance their household books.
So, supporting multi-dimensional poor C, YP & Fs to explore ways of reducing income deficit, and where possible generating, building and boosting their incomes to exercise their human right to a decent end-of-year celebration is not only a one-off or seasonal business to make ends meet; but can also become an additional way of building and developing income capacity to reduce and end income poverty. They are poor not only because of lack of income but also due to their failing capacities to control income deficit as well as generate enough income to cover their needs.
As part of festive support, our Edition 2020 Festive Extra Income Builder, Booster and Calculator would be available for those who need it. We launched this resource earlier in Autumn in order to enable those in need of the resource to get the tips and hints they need to early start exploring ways of reducing their income deficit while finding ways of boosting their income and generational economy.
This year, this resource focuses on Ways of Not to Carry Forward Income Deficit in 2021 as the means to overcome intergenerational income poverty and improve intergenerational transfer accounts.
Besides this resource, we planned two periods of work on income deficit programmes and schemes starting from this Wednesday as follows.
=> 02 to 08/12/2020: Income Deficit Reduction Programmes (IDRP) Period
During the IDRP period, we will be working on how income deficit people and families can set up a series of structured activities or small projects to reduce income deficit and where possible to generate little extra income in order to reduce poverty.
=> 09 to 15/12/2019: Income Deficit Reduction Schemes (IDRS) Period
During the IDRS period, we will be working on how income deficit people and families can find available systematic plans of future action to reduce income deficit and where possible generate income in order to reduce continuing poverty and hardships; particularly what scheme is workable or unworkable for them.
Throughout and at the end of these two periods, we hope that people and families can develop their own individual working IDRP and IDRS plans or policies to reduce income deficit and generate little extra incomes not only for the festive period, but also beyond the festive time. in doing so, they can improve their intergenerational economy and transfer accounts.
• • • December as Record Tracking Month
December is also the time of record tracking on our All-year Round Projects (or Triple Value Initiatives), particularly
√ CENFACS Poverty Relief League (The African Nations Poverty Relief League)
√ Run to Reduce Poverty in Africa in 2020
√ Vote your African Poverty Relief and Development Manager of the Year 2020
We expect those who took part and or organised activities on our behalf about these projects to come forward, report and share with us their actions, results and experiences about the three bests of 2020 (Best Country, Best Runner and Best Manager).
As these activities have been organised within the difficult contexts of coronavirus pandemic which has taken almost one year, we can count on them to tell us their Winner of CENFACS Virtual Trophy of the Pandemic Year.
• • • December as the start of Winter Lights Season
As said above in our Festive Guide, December is finally the month we start CENFACS Winter Lights Season, the first season of our development seasonal calendar. The Season of Light, which kicks off around Mid-December, includes the Gifts of Peace.
Each year, we produce an edition of the Gifts of Peace that makes up our final fundraising campaign and last humanitarian appeal of the year. This year, we are doing the same while taking into account the health and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic in our last humanitarian appeal or fundraising campaign of 2020.
Peace is the festive theme we choose at CENFACS to spread the joy of Season’s Reliefs to those in need, especially at this time of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns. We try to help their wishes of relief become true with the Gifts of Peace, by putting a smile on their face with relief notes.
With face coverings imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, many of them cannot find the smiles they need for relief. One can hope that the Gifts of Peace will bring back the lost smiles.
To support the Edition 2020/2021 of Gifts of Peace, please contact CENFACS.
As part of the Season of Light is the CENFACS Community Value Chains celebration. This celebration generally closes our seasons at the end of the year and concludes our yearly development calendar and planner, while marking the end of civil year at CENFACS.
It is an end-of-year eventful project enabling us to look upon us again as a community of shared vision, values and beliefs which connect us as human chains with a purpose of reducing and ending poverty amongst us, and of enhancing sustainable development as well.
This year we shall again focus on ourselves as a Community with a Poverty Reduction Mission. It will be about repurposing poverty reduction in face of the health and economic threats brought by the coronavirus pandemic.
To carry the CENFACS Community into the New Year, our discussion on Sustainable Volunteering is scheduled to take place from 05 December 2020 to 05 January 2021. The discussion theme for this year is Post-Coronavirus Volunteering.
To take the other two domains (International and Fund) of CENFACS into 2021 and engage with stakeholders, we shall develop projects and programmes with contents of Post-Coronavirus Poverty Reduction Restructuring and Post-Exited Economy.
For any enquiries or to support CENFACS in the month of December 2020 and in the New Year, contact CENFACS.
Help CENFACS keep the Poverty Relief work going in 2020.
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One could consider a recurring donation to CENFACS in the future.
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With many thanks.
