Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
23 December 2020
Post No. 175
Festive Week’s Contents
• Thanking 2020 Poverty Relief Makers and Enablers
• Festive Season’s Arrangement
• Peace, Hope and Charity e-Store
… and much more!
Key Festive Messages
• Thanking 2020 Poverty Relief Makers and Enablers
As the end of year 2020 is nearing, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who produced poverty reduction with us and those who made poverty reduction possible for those in need and for us. Amongst them are those who supported the work for relief in this pandemic year.
For more information about this first key message, please read under the Main Development section of this post.
• Festive Season’s Arrangement: from 24 December 2020 to 5 January 2021
The following is the arrangement we have made for the above stated period.
• • Queries and enquiries
During the festive holidays and the new tier 4 of COVID-19 restrictions in London, we will only handle online queries and enquiries until the 5th of January 2021. However, our All-in-Development Winter e-discussion on Post-coronavirus Volunteering is still on until the 5th of January 2021 as planned.
• • Opening hours and days
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 of those living in poverty around this time of the year and of the coronavirus turbulence.
Those who want to donate to our fundraising campaigns and projects (such as Gifts of Peace and End-of-Year 2019 Support); they are welcome to do so.
With their festive support or donations, these will help bring a Blaze of Hope and Peace to those in need, particularly at this turbulent time of the new coronavirus pandemic variant.
As well as donating, there are other ways one can support from spreading the message about CENFACS’ work and campaigns to visiting our online store for shopping goods.
All the above initiatives can create magical reliefs during this Festive Season and disturbing moment of tier 4 of COVID-19 restrictions.
• • Season of Light
Our Season of Light continues as planned. However, some of our services and activities (such as advocacy, physical fundraising events, etc.) as well as development campaigns are scaled down until the 5th of January 2021. Also, they are even more reduced than the previous festive periods and years because of the coronavirus pandemic and the latest new COVID-19 variant.
• • What’s on from 24 December 2020 to 5 January 2021!
We are breaking for the festive holidays while following the new COVID-19 restrictions in the tier four. However, there are projects that are essential in exceptional times like of the coronavirus pandemic and of the festive break. One of them is advice-giving one which will still be run online.
This is because evidence shows that in any moments of human history and crisis, the poorest always suffer. They do not have festive celebration as such, just as they could be the ones bearing the most negative socio-economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic and post-lockdown tiers. Many of them need support which includes advice at any time.
The above figure shows what is on between 24/12/2020 and 05/01/2021. For those who want to get a further picture about what has been happening at CENFACS during the remaining days of December 2020, we recommend them to read our three last posts on the Blog page of this site.
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. Also, the coronavirus pandemic and new tier systems of restrictions do not make things easier.
• • 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 2020 and look forward to your continued and further support in the New Year.
We wish you a Very Healthy, Safe and Peaceful Festive Season!
• Peace, Hope and Charity e-Store
• • Peace and Hope
Our celebratory theme for the Season’s Reliefs is Peace and continues to be alive to the end of this season. Our theme for the Season of Light is Hope and is still featuring what we have planned to achieve over this season.
• • Charity e-Store
Following the new COVID-19 variant and the current restrictions which have led to the tier four, CENFACS’ Charity e-Store is opened for Click and Collect only. We are not taking goods donations at the moment, just as we do not have a Drop and Go policy. Under exceptional circumstances and our Recycle and Give policy, we can however arrange for goods to be safely collected at an agreed location, day and time.
Every time you shop at CENFACS’ Charity e-Store, you make a helpful difference to people in need over this festive time, amongst them are those who are trying to fight the coronavirus-induced poverty.
The above are the Season’s Triple Reliefs. We can only help reduce and possibly end multi-dimensional poverty as well as coronavirus-induced poverty if you help us to do so. And this time of the year is a unique opportunity for you once a year to change lives through your invaluable support however small it may be.
Please, don’t miss this marvellous opportunity of the pandemic year and the end of the year. There is a high demand for poverty reduction.
To click and collect, go to please go to: http://cenfacs.org.uk/shop/
Extra Festive Messages
• Campaign for Resilience against the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19 Campaign) during the Festive Season
How to Integrate the New COVID Variant in the Shadowing Model of Fight against COVID-19
Our COVID-19 Campaign is also active and trending during the festive period and the new tier four of COVID-19 restrictions since the coronavirus is taking a sinusoidal shape as we thought it at the beginning of Autumn 2020. The campaign is still in its Phase 3 of Rehabilitation Strategies for our work in the UK and in Africa.
• • What is the COVID-19 Campaign by CENFACS during the festive season?
The COVID-19 Campaign by CENFACS during the festive period is about finding ways of integrating the new COVID variant or mutation in our shadowing model of fighting against the coronavirus pandemic.
So far, our campaign has been on the COVID-19 as originally named by the World Health Organisation. Now that COVID-19 has mutated, there is a need to adapt our campaign and model of fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
• • Keeping the momentum in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic
To keep and win the battle against the coronavirus, it is advisable to maintain a healthy relationship between hands, faces and space as we have been told by the health authorities and experts on COVID-19 matter. It is better not to give up the basic healthcare principles and any life-saving advice during the Festive Season.
During this Festive Time, we are continuing to advocate for the community to stay resilient and vigilant against the coronavirus pandemic if one wants to win the fight against this deadly COVID-19 pandemic. In this respect, it is in the best interest of everybody to act in a way that does not increase the health and economic threats and risks of the coronavirus pandemic and its variants on their and people lives.
• • Breaking out the vicious circle of the new tier four and economic inactivity
As many members of our community are living in the areas of the new tier four of COVID-19 restrictions, there could a need for some of them to find way to break out the vicious circle of the new tier four and economic inactivity. The exercises we provided during the Summer lockdown are still relevant and can be applied to manage the new tier four.
For those who are looking for new types of activities including tips and hints, they can still let us know so that we can together e-work to come out with some proposals to manage this challenging situation of COVID-19 changing faces and spikes which occur during the Festive Season.
Additionally, there are a lot of resources both print and online that can be used and accessed to deal with the socio-economic effects of the new tier four.
Need support to break out the vicious circle of the post-lockdown tiers, please e-contact CENFACS.
• Festive Income Boost, All year round Projects and The CENFACS Community
• • Festive Income Boost
For children, young people and families in need on whose behalf we relentlessly advocate; we can expect that they have managed to generate some little extra incomes they need to cover the extra expenses of the Season’s financial pressure. More importantly than anything else, they will manage to stay healthy and safe while exercising their basic human right to some forms of festive celebrations despite the coronavirus restrictions. Equally important, everybody in the community is doing what they can for not to carry forward income deficit into 2021.
• • All Year-round Projects (Triple Value Initiatives)
As our All Year-round Projects or Triple Value Initiatives (i.e. Play, Run and Vote for poverty relief and development) come to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to thank those who responded to our call for Action-Results 2020.
• • The CENFACS Community
We would like as well to express our gratitude to those who replied to the Community Value Chains, the CENFACS Community, by adding their talents and skills to our register.
• Natural and Climate Balances in Festive Celebrations
It is possible to offset one’s carbon foot print and to have a positive effect on the nature and climate by the way one will celebrate their Festive Season. Already, COVID-19 lockdowns had beneficial effects on nature and climate to a certain extent last Summer. This benefice can be increased in the way one may want to pass their Festive Season.
In this respect, our nature and climate campaigns continue as we are carrying on advocating about the maintenance of healthy balance between festive celebration and nature, between the season’s festivities and climate. In other words, it is possible to have a festive celebration that is climate-friendly and that preserves the wealth and health of the nature.
Briefly, this extra message, which reinforces our commitment to the development of sustainable initiatives, can be translated into action at individual level. The message is indeed about natural and climate balances by the way of approaching and celebrating the special days of the Festive Season (e.g. the New Year’s Eve).
For more details and support about natural and climate balances in one’s festive celebrations, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
Main Festive Development
• Thanking 2020 Poverty Relief Makers and Enablers
The work and produce of CENFACS are collective endeavour. The end of the year gives us an opportunity of the many to thank all those who directly and indirectly contributed to the year 2020, either as poverty relief maker or enabler or even both.
Perhaps, the best way of thanking could be to do it individually by naming every contributor. There could be a risk of forgetting some supporters. To avoid this risk, we are thanking them collectively although we may have mentioned here and there some names.
Year 2020 has been a historically challenging one for CENFACS and many people/organisations in the world as the world is battling against the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this unparalleled challenge of the pandemic year, the commitment of various individuals and organisations to what we are trying to achieve has been undisputable and will be unforgettable.
In particular, we would like to mention the following contributors: users, volunteers, web readers and commentators, web reviewers, local people and families, Africa-based Sister Organisations, charitable organisations, non-governmental organisations, community groups, third sector organisations, recycling organisations, individuals, etc.
Year 2020 has been dedicated as a “Mission” Year, a mission of poverty reduction. During this year, we have tried as much as we can to reach out to those in need of relief from poverty and hardships. As it has been as well as a pandemic year, we have deployed our efforts and resources to help and work with the community and our Africa-based Sister Organisations to protect themselves and others from the life-threatening and –destroying impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
We would like to thank all those who have helped and worked with us in our COVID-19 Campaign to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and its destructive health and economic effects including the consequences of lockdowns.
Without undermining the other valuable and traditional sources of support we normally receive, we would like to thank, particularly but not exclusively, WordPress.com, Easily.uk and Twitter.com. We thank them for providing us again with the opportunity to bring our ideas and work of poverty reduction to life to our audience and a global audience.
WordPress.com, Easily.uk and Twitter.com with their platforms have continued to give us as a charity a tremendous opportunity and learning experience to engage the public and other supporters as well as to enable us to re-communicate our anti-poverty messages and undertake our work on sustainable development.
Small charitable organisations do not always have the financial means to put their messages across. Having the possibility of using free or sometimes affordable means of communications can enormously impact the work of these charities. Free or cheap is not always poor quality or option, just as heavily paid option is not always the best one. All depends on what you get and what it achieves.
2020 will be remembered by many including CENFACS as a pandemic year. The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have forced us to shield ourselves as well as to remotely or distance work in order to achieve our mission and aims. This has meant we had to go out our normal way and means to reinvent ourselves in order to deliver the same and new services in exceptional circumstances. Thanks to the support we have received from some of you we have been still able to punch above our weight in delivering poverty reduction outcomes for those in extreme and urgent need.
This year, we would like to extend our gratitude to other living things. To advocate for the peaceful relationship with the nature, the preservation of the biodiversity, the reduction of adverse impacts of climate change, the protection of endangered species of the fauna and flora and so on; we had to use images and pictures from the flora and fauna. We would like to say thank you to those beautiful creatures of the nature that helped us to put our messages across.
To sum up, we are using the opportunity of the end of year to thank all those who made and enabled the year 2020 work for CENFACS, its beneficiaries and other deserving causes related to ours.
We would like to express all our feelings of thank you and best wishes of the Season’s Greetings to all our 2020 Poverty Reduction Makers and Enablers.
Help CENFACS keep the Poverty Relief work going this Festive Season.
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 consider a recurring donation to CENFACS in the future.
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Thank you for visiting CENFACS website and reading this post.
Thank you as well to those who made or make comments about our weekly posts.
We look forward to receiving your regular visits and continuing support throughout 2020 and beyond.
With many thanks.
