Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
19 December 2018
Post No. 70
The Week’s Contents
- Festive Trends
- Season of Light
- All-year Round Projects: 2018 Verdict
… and much, much more!
Key Messages from the Week’s Contents
December and End of Autumn 2018 Updates and Trends
The following updates and trends cover three initiatives: All in Development Winter e-Discussion, Gifts of Peace and Community Value Chains.
All in Development Winter e-Discussion is currently trending as planned amongst CENFACS’ December products and services. This e-Discussion is in its second week. So far, the items e-discussed are the review of volunteers’ role and the definition of new tasks to be assigned to volunteers in a New Climate Economy.
To e-discuss volunteers’ matters related to the New Climate Economy, contact CENFACS.
Gifts of Peace are also trending over this Season’s Reliefs. If you are looking for appeals or projects to fund as festive gifts over this festive time, Gifts of Peace are something you could consider.
To enquiry about and or fund Gifts of Peace, just contact CENFACS.
Community Value Chains, the CENFACS Community’s festive celebration as a Skillful Community, is being prepared and trended. We are doing an inventory of skills and are registering the talents and skills of the CENFACS Community. If you have not yet registered your skills to CENFACS’ Skills Data Bank, this is the opportunity to it over this festive period.
To register or add your skills to the CENFACS Community’s skills register or database, just contact CENFACS.
Autumn Fresh Start to the Season of Light
The Autumn season officially ends this week. The momentum we built from the beginning of Autumn Fresh Start season continues to galvanise our poverty relief action and is taking our relief journey into the Season of Light which starts on the 21st of December this week.
This week is thus the end of Autumn Fresh Start projects and programmes, and the beginning of the Season of Light; season during which we light up a Blaze of Hope for people and communities suffering from the effects and impacts of destructive wars and natural disasters in Africa.
The Lights Appeal is the project that features the Season of Light, while the Gifts of Peace keep on giving the Festive Season.
Festive Gift Set
The remaining 13 days of this year starting from today are the last legacy of the Year 2018 as the Year of Local People at CENFACS. To mark the end of and the last act of our Local Year Campaign, we are appealing to you to support of CENFACS’ year 2018 through a Gift of Survival for Local People.
With the Gift of Survival plus the Gift of Light plus the Gift of Peace; the three of them give you a Gift Set of £5 or more. All these initiatives represent some great ways of helping to reduce poverty at this special time of the year. They give indeed more opportunities to supporters to do something for those in need.
All year round projects
At CENFACS the theme for the Season of Light is Hope which we try to bring through a Blaze, while the theme for the Festive Season’s Reliefs is Peace.
The week is finally an occasion to remind the need to report on all year round projects which are: Play, Run and Vote projects for poverty relief and development.
Under the Main Developments section of the post, we have provided what those who supported all year round projects need to report or feedback on.
Extra Messages
Climate Talks Follow-up project: What’s next?
Since the world’s nations agreed a rule book (by adopting the Katowice climate package) to put into practice the 2015 Paris Agreement, our Climate Talks Follow up project needs some rethinking to take into account this change. In particular, we will look at how measures agreed will help to protect children especially when reporting and verifying emissions-cutting efforts. Our position is explained by the fact that there is still a missing element which is stepping up targets on child protection in relation to cutting emissions.
One can hope that when the United Nations will meet in Chile in 2019, this will be an opportunity to sort out the final elements of the Paris rule book and begin work on future emissions targets. In doing so, this will provide us some clarity about climate protection and stake of children.
In meantime, the outcome from the rethinking of our Climate Talks Follow-up project has led us to take the project to the next level, which is the implementation level. So, after monitoring and evaluation of the Climate Protection and Stake for African Children – Phase 2 (CPSAC – P.2) and the last follow up this year, there has been some consensus within CENFACS so that our Climate Talks Follow-up project gets to the next level from 2019.
Phases of CENFACS’ Climate Talks Follow-up
The following are the phases making our Climate Talks Follow-up.
Phase 1: The First African Children Generation of the Millennium Development Goals and the Climate State
Phase 2: Climate Protection and Stake for African Children
Phase 3: Taking Climate Protection and Stake for African Children at the Implementation Level(from January 2019)
2019 Climate Talks Follow-up
The next follow-up will be on Taking Climate Protection and Stake for African Children at the Implementation level.
The details of this new follow-up will be unveiled in the New Year.
End-of-year Support
As 2018 is coming to an end, we would like to ask you to donate as a legacy towards CENFACS’ efforts to help reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
You can donate to support CENFACS’ anti-poverty message and to help reduce poverty and hardships this festive season and in the New Year.
Your support can make helpful differences to CENFACS and to those in need, the people and communities that CENFACS serves.
Make a one-off Festive Donation of £5 or more this festive time
to help poor people via CENFACS and / or support CENFACS’ work on poverty relief and sustainable development
You can also support one of the CENFACS projects and programmes if you wish.
Make a Monthly Donation of £5 or £10 or £15 or more per month as a legacy for CENFACS’ work
Please make an end-of-year contribution today to help us continue to deliver the work of CENFACS in 2019 and beyond.
Main Developments from the Week’s Contents
The Lights Season
The Lights Season at CENFACS kicks off with the theme of Hope as said above. We are going to deliver this Hope with sustainable lights and sustainable energy. The 2018-2019 Season of Light is a special one as the world has been asked to make energy transition. Implementing the Paris Climate Pact includes making energy transition. Most of our environmentally-minded supporters and climate sensible humans understand this climate need.
Sustainable lights and energy are part of our work in developing sustainable initiatives to help reduce poverty,particularly in developing those initiatives helping to reduce deforestation and forest degradation as well as to reduce poverty induced by deforestation.
While the theme of Peace will be dominant over the festive celebrations period, the theme of Hope is the overall theme of the Season of Lights. The theme of Hope is made of notes or pieces of sustainable lights and energy. In this sense that we can bring a glimmer of hope through sustainable lights and energy over this Wintry season.
The Gifts of Peace are included in the Season of Light. Peace is the festive theme we choose to spread the joy of Season’s Reliefs to those in need.
We try to help their wishes of poverty relief become true through the Gits of Peace that put a smile on their face with relief notes.
The Gift of Light that Keeps on Giving this Winter
A gift of light for every person in need everywhere!
The Lights season is the season we try to bring light or shine light to impoverished lives. We try to bring clarity, brightness to people who need to see clearly and accurately about their life. It is about helping them see the light of relief so that they can see the world in a new relieved light.
A gift of light that ignites and sparks the life of those in need!
This is why we have the Lights project at CENFACS; projects which enable us to bring lights to those in need. This Winter 2018-2019, our Lights projects will focus on two parts or two waves of action: 1/ post-war and post-natural disaster developments 2/ current and emerging armed conflicts and environmental catastrophes
A gift of light that helps people to find their own way out poverty with pride!
The Gift of Light is about helping people to help themselves. By using the light, they can find their own way out poverty and hardships instead of we telling them what do. They can act with self-esteem and self-respect. In this respect, the Gift of Light is a blessing of empowerment.
A Blaze of Hope for post-life following armed conflicts and natural disasters
When there are environmental disasters and armed conflicts, there are pledges and commitments to end the effects of wars and disasters. For various reasons, some of these pledges do not materialise. The post-war and post-disaster developments are sometimes left without support sometimes until the conflicts and disasters return and or strike again.
As we cannot wait the return or repeat of the same wars and disasters, our first Blaze of Hope will go this Winter to the unfinished business of previous destructive wars and natural disasters.
A Blaze of Hope for the eruption of any armed conflicts and natural disasters
We always advocate for preventive development and we do not seek for destructive events to happen. However,our preparedness and readiness made us to assemble as quickly as possible advocacy tools should any effects and impacts erupt from wars and natural disasters in Africa.
So, our second wave of intervention or Blaze of Hope will go this Wintry season to erupted effects of armed conflicts and natural disasters in the areas of our interest in Africa.
With these two waves of action over this Wintry Season, we hope to enlighten the lives of those in pressing need.
Run, Play & Vote projects
As we are reaching the end of year 2018, it is now time to report on our three All-year Round Projects –which are Play, Run and Vote.
We would like our users and supporters to share with us and others their experiences, stories and reports regarding these projects.
The Action-Results of 2018: Tell it!
You can feedback the outcomes or Action-Results of your…
… Run if you ran for poverty relief over the year 2018 (or organised a Run activity)
… Play if you played the CENFACS League for Poverty Relief
… Vote if you have already voted your 2018 African Poverty Relief Manager.
Remember!
If you are Playing the CENFACS Poverty Relief League and its sub-project Le Dernier Carrẻ, there are 16 team countries in this Poverty Relief and Development League playing each 32 matches/games each against the other.
If you are Running for Poverty Relief and Development, you can do it alone or as a group.
If you are casting your Vote for an International Development and Poverty Relief Manager of 2018, there are few days remaining until the end of the year 2018.
Whether you are Gaming or Running or even Voting for Poverty Relief and Development, please keep at rack record (including the facts, data, videos, audio tapes, reviews and images) of your activities to make and share your story with us and others.
To do that, you do not need sophisticated technologies or a third party. With your mobile phone only– if you have one – you can text, record voices, make a video, take pictures,phone etc to capture and communicate the impacts of any event or activity you did, are doing or taking part by the end of this year.
We would be more than happier to hear your Action and Results to feature and conclude CENFACS 2018 Year of Local People. Tell it!
What we want to hear
We would like to hear from you about
• The Best African Countries of 2018 which best reduced poverty
• The Best African Global Games Runners of 2018
• The Best African Development Managers of 2018
If you have not yet told us, have your say by 23 December 2018!
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