Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
21 June 2023
Post No. 305
The Week’s Contents
• Research and Development to Create and Innovate Solutions to Win the Battle against Crises
• Creations and Innovations to Win the Battle against Crises: Advocacy Campaign on Overcoming the Battle against Crises Caused by Natural Disaster (From Week Beginning Monday 19/06/2023
• Thanksgiving Days: Supporters’ Days (26 to 30 June 2023)
… And much more!
Key Messages
• Research and Development to Create and Innovate Solutions to Win the Battle against Crises
Without research it would difficult for us to create and innovate solutions or find possible answers to problems that face our users; problems exacerbated by the current challenge posed by crises (like the cost-of-living crisis, natural crisis, food crisis, energy crisis, etc.). Likewise, without the development of ideas to respond to crises, it would be hard to come out crises.
Research and development are at the heart of everything we do at CENFACS. We research into new ideas to better help reduce poverty amongst our users in the community and Africa-based Organisations that work in our area of operation in Africa. We also investigate into new ways of applying new facts and data to better help reduce poverty and hardships amongst the same beneficiaries.
The two interlinked functions (that is, research and development) within CENFACS are vital in the process of reducing poverty and enhancing sustainable development. Although they are linked, they can also be looked at separately from the perspective of management.
Concerning the research function within CENFACS, we would like to let you know that we are currently researching into the relationships between financial education, financial information, financial communication, financial technology on the one hand and financial behaviour on the other hand. The research will enable us to find out how for instance access to financial education can improve financial behaviour of our members. This piece of research work is applied one.
Regarding the development function within CENFACS, we would like to inform you that this function helps us to develop existing products, services and activities. The function enables us to build model to check or test the feasibility of any products or services designed. Furthermore, the development function helps to initiate change of systems in CENFACS, to adapt and positively respond to changes in the poverty reduction market, to continue to develop poverty reduction model, to increase communication, etc.
So, the key message is Creative Economic Development Month is also about research and development. It is a month to invent or create new products and services while developing or improving existing ones to make helpful difference to our users and fill gaps in the poverty reduction market.
Under the Main Development section of this post, we have provided further details about this first key message, and the focus on the current research and development trending, which is: Create and Innovate Solutions to Win the Battle against Crises.
• Creations and Innovations to Win the Battle against Crises: Advocacy Campaign on Overcoming the Battle against Crises Caused by Natural Disaster (From Week Beginning Monday 19/06/2023)
Wherever our areas of operation are subject to crises directly resulting from natural events (such as volcano, earthquake, torrential rains, cyclones, etc.), we need to find ways of creating and innovating to find solutions to the negative impacts of these crises on the people and communities we serve. If those creations and innovations could overcome these natural disaster-led crises, it will be even better than without them.
These creations and innovations could be part of the rebuilding projects or processes in the context of Rebuilding Africa programme by CENFACS. They could be a response to win the battle against the impacts of short-term environmental strikes, disasters linked to climate change cycles, and long-term environmental storms and catastrophes.
In this respect, crises caused by natural disaster are our battlefield for this week as we would like to work with our users to find ways of overcoming fight over crises stemming from natural disaster. This battle can be short or long depending on circumstances. One can think of all those people and communities asking for humanitarian aid in Africa to deal with natural events such drought, volcano, torrential rains, cyclones, etc. who are still struggling to come to term with the impacts of these events.
We will be dealing with these events through advocacy campaign activity. One week of advocacy campaign this month will not be enough to deal with crises brought by these events knowing the magnitude and damages of these events on people, properties and infrastructures. One week’s advocacy campaign activity is just the way we organised ourselves to explain to those who would like to engage with us on how we can create and innovate together to overcome the battle against crises induced by natural disaster.
Also, overcoming the battle against natural disaster is not easy as the origins of these events are often out of human hands or control. However, it is possible to create and innovate to better deal with the consequences or crises brought by these events. To create and innovate for the reduction of natural disaster effects, we are going to do it through these points: basic understanding of natural disaster and crisis, advocacy campaign to overcome the battle against crises caused by natural disaster, and ways of working with the community to overcome this battle.
• • Basic understanding of natural disaster and crisis
Our definition of natural disaster comes from ‘britannica.com’ (1) which states that
“Natural disaster is any calamitous occurrence generated by the effects of natural rather than human-driven, phenomena that produces great loss of human life or destruction of the natural environment, private property, or public infrastructure. A natural disaster may be caused by weather and climate events or by earthquakes, landslides, and other occurrences that originate at Earth’s surface or within the planet itself”.
As to crisis, it will be approached from its difference with disaster. From this perspective, ‘rainfoodtci.org’ (2) provides this difference by referring to what Oxford Dictionary says, which is
“A disaster is sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life, while a crisis is a time of intense difficulty or danger or a time when a difficult or important decision must be made”.
Although natural disaster is not human-driven, it is possible to create and innovate to overcome crises or dangers resulting from it. Historically speaking, organisations (like disaster reduction agencies), governments around the world and individuals tend to create and innovate to deal with this sort of events. During our Creative Economic Development Month, we are going to try to do the same while exploring ways of overcoming the battle over crises generated by these natural events.
• • Advocacy campaign to overcome the battle against crises caused by natural disaster
Perhaps, the best way of kicking off this advocacy campaign is to understand what it means.
• • • What is advocacy campaign?
The meaning of advocacy campaign to be used here comes from Salsa (3), which argues that
“An advocacy campaign is an individual marketing effort that uses one or more advocacy tactics to get the word out to your supporters with an appeal for them to take a specific action in support of a larger goal”.
This working definition will help us to work with our supporters and try to overcome the battle against crises caused by natural disaster. To implement, this definition, we need to carry out some tasks.
• • • Tasks to completed under our advocacy campaign of the month of CEDM
To undertake our advocacy campaign, we are going to proceed with the following tasks as suggested by Salsa (op. cit.):
∝ define the problem
∝ identify solutions
∝ get our message out to our supporters
∝ try to bring about the intended solutions to crises caused by natural disaster.
Additionally, we are going to use specific campaign metrics to assess the effectiveness of our advocacy campaign activity.
This activity is about supporting the victims of natural disaster-led crises to express their views and wishes and help them stand up for rights. It is also about speaking truth to power.
To create and innovate under this advocacy campaign activity, we are going to have some specific actions.
• • • Actions under advocacy campaign to overcome the battle against crises caused by natural disaster
These actions include the following:
√ to build power at the base to rebuild power in the communities of the victims of natural disaster
√ to re-educate legislators regarding ways of overcoming the battle against crises caused by natural disaster
√ to educate the public on why we need to keep supporting humanitarian causes like those of the victims of natural disaster
√ to produce resources and tools linked to ways of overcoming the battle against crises like natural disaster
√ to mobilise for the cases of those suffering from crises led by the impact of natural disaster
√ to run educational gatherings (both online and in-person)
√ to launch humanitarian relief appeals together with events-stricken people
etc.
Briefly, this activity is about acting in speaking in favour of those suffering from crises caused by natural disaster, arguing for their case to be heard, supporting and defending them, and pleading on their behalf. This could concern both areas of our operation in Africa and in the UK.
• • Ways of working with the community to overcome this battle
Those members of our community who are having some difficulty in overcoming the battle they have against crises or effects caused by natural events can let us know so that together we can create and innovate ways of overcoming the battle against the crises that are affecting them.
We can use the above-mentioned ways or tools of overcoming the battle against crises caused by natural disaster. We can plead on their behalf so that they can get the support they need to express their views and wishes, and stand up for their rights.
For example, for those fighting to get a compensation because of the damage caused by natural events to them or their accommodation, we can work with them to stand up for their rights and try to overcome their fight.
For those who would like to know more about our advocacy and campaign appeals to Africa and how we are trying to work with the victims of natural disaster in Africa, they can read our previous posts or refer to this year’s appeals we made or contact CENFACS.
• Thanksgiving Days: Supporters’ Days (26 to 30 June 2023)
The last week of June is a thanksgiving one in accordance to CENFACS development calendar. From 26 to 30 June 2023, we will be thanking all our supporters (current and past ones).
We would like to take the opportunity of the end of June to thank them (and you if you are one of them) for helping…
CENFACS IN ENHANCING AND SUSTAINING FREEDOMS AND CAPABILITIES BY WORKING IN ALLIANCE WITH LOCAL PEOPLE TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES.
• • What do mean by Thanking Days or Supporters’ Days?
These are Special Days of Thank You within CENFACS we would like to dedicate to all those who contributed to our work for any types of support they have given us over this financial year. This dedication is normally held in the last week of and by the end of June. For this year, Thank-you Days will be held from 26 to 30 June 2023 in order to keep our tradition.
As we are in CENFACS’ Creative Economic Development Month and Year of Influence, we shall find all sorts of creative, innovative, influencing and communicative ways of thanking our invaluable supporters and backers.
These thanking ways may include the following:
√ Conversing with our supporters over phones
√ Signing and sending thank-you prints or e-cards to them
√ Telling them the stories or outcomes about the people and communities they helped through their support
√ E-mailing, texting and tweeting them with messages of gratitude
√ Telling and sharing thank-you stories
√ Playing and listening with them music and songs of thank you
√ Making and playing thank-you videos and films
√ Giving back to them by volunteering our time to the cause they deeply care about
√ Undertaking a free translation service (French to English and vice versa)
√ Reading African poems and poetry
√ Sending to them digital and technologically animated thank-you messages
√ Doing creative and design works symbolising thank you
√ Sending out designed and hand crafted made objects and crafts of acknowledgement
√ Making video calls if we cannot have in-person contact with them
Etc.
If you are one of the CENFACS’ supporters, please we would like to let you know the Thanking Days at CENFACS are your Days. Do not hesitate to get in touch, if you do not mistakenly hear from us.
We will welcome you, reconnect with you and thank you on the occasion for the helpful difference you made to our work and project beneficiaries, and for being with us on the side of those in need especially during this challenging year of the lingering effects of the coronavirus and the cost-of-living crisis.
Your invaluable support has meant a lot for our programme and project beneficiaries over this ending financial year.
We would like to express all our sincere gratitude to you for helping us to help reduce poverty, for making our voice heard especially at these challenging times of the side effects of the coronavirus followed by the cost-of-living crisis.
For further details, please contact CENFACS’ Thanksgiving-End-of-June-2023 Team.
Extra Messages
• Win against Distress for Children, Young People and Families in Africa
• Coming this Summer 2023: Financial Updates with a Focus on Financial History
• Creative Arts, Design-based Development Projects and e-Workshops: Construct and Post e-cards or e-objects
• Win against Distress for Children, Young People and Families in Africa
Win against Distress for Children, Young People and Families in Africa is one of the Summer Appeal projects making the first part of our Summer Programme, which will be published soon. This appeal has been already launched.
The appeal is about supporting children, young people and families (CYPFs), in places in Africa where there is already high level of poverty, who cannot cope with the mounting pressure and damaging effects of polycrises.
Supporting this appeal means helping CYPFs to minimise and mitigate the impacts of polycrises on them. Your support will help to reduce the risks and impacts that the polycrises can make in terms of tragedy, intergenerational poverty, etc. Your assistance is required to respond to CYPF’ distress signals.
One can think of a child or young person without any dreams and expectations, what will be his/her future, especially in countries (like Burkina Faso or Mali) where there is deterioration of security conditions in conflict-affected areas.
Can you help this child? Yes or No!
If you say yes; then…
√ you can help that child to dream and expect for a better life and future
√ you can help stop polycrises to become a structural constraint and handicap for that child
√ you can help stop polycrises to create lifelong adverse impacts on children and young people
√ you can help stop children’s and young people’s lives being reduced back below the poverty line
√ you can stop the lost generation of polycrises to happen in Africa.
To make the above happen, support ‘Win against Distress for Children, Young People and Families in Africa’.
You can find further highlights of this appeal and ways of supporting at: cenfacs.org.uk/supporting-us/
• Coming this Summer 2023: Financial Updates with a Focus on Financial History
Too many crises (like the coronavirus, the cost-of-living crisis, food crisis, energy crisis, nature crisis, climate crisis, debt crisis, economic crisis, etc.) can make people, especially those living on ordinary means, find their financial history in threat or destruction. Yet, financial history is important especially in the process of recovering and rebuilding from crises.
This 2023 Edition of Summer Financial Updates (SFU) will focus on information about income, finances, assets, salaries/wages, monetary incentives, insurance, financial transactions, credit worthiness, and debts that our users may need to prove or produce in order to justify their financial past.
In this year’s edition of SFU, we shall provide advice, tips and hints about ways of building forward financial history. The 2023 Edition of SFU will help our users
√ to apply money, financial and banking knowledge in their daily life
√ to identify the causes of financial crisis (e.g., debt crisis or distress) some of our members may have gone through or face
√ to reconstruct their financial history
√ to identify and learn from past financial mistakes
√ to reflect on their financial wellbeing and record
√ to have a historiographical view of their finances
√ to match their financial history and financial poverty
√ to carry out financial projections from their financial past
etc.
In brief, the 2023 Edition of SFU is not only about learning your financial past, but also avoiding financial mistakes of the past. In this respect, this edition will help to find way of achieving the goal of financial poverty reduction.
For those members of our community who may interested in the 2023 Edition of SFU, they are welcome to enquire to CENFACS about it.
• Creative Arts, Design-based Development Projects and e-Workshops: Construct and Post e-cards or e-objects
This month, we are running two e-workshops as follows.
• • e-Workshop 1: Making and Sending a p-Card or e-Card Expressing the Theme of “Solutions to plastic pollution”
The construction will echo the World Environmental Day’s (4) celebratory theme of last 05/06/2023.
Participants to the e-workshop can Make and Send a p-Card or e-Card expressing the theme of “Solutions to plastic pollution”.
For those who are trying to design and send this type of paper card (p-card) or an electronic card (e-card) as a way of participating in the Creative Economic Development month, please make sure that the poverty relief message you are conveying is without confusion.
• • e-Workshop 2: Making and Sending a p-Card or e-Card to Support World Desertification and Drought Day 2023 held last 17 June
The second e-workshop is about constructing and posting the similar cards as expressions or ways of dealing with drought to resonate the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on 17/06/2023. The theme of 2023 Desertification and Drought Day (5) is “Women’s land rights”.
One can follow CENFACS‘ card design criteria and guidelines for Arts and Design e-workshop 1 and 2, and design their p-card or e-card.
So, those who wish and want can design and post an e-card or e-object to feature these themes. There are card design criteria and guidelines which we expect people to follow. Those who need to know these criteria and guidelines can let CENFACS know.
To support and or enquire about e-workshops on Art and Design for Poverty Relief and Sustainable Development, please contact CENFACS.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Journées de remerciement: Journées des supporteurs/trices (du 26 au 30 juin 2023)
La dernière semaine de juin est une semaine d’action de grâce conformément au calendrier de développement du CENFACS. Du 26 au 30 juin 2023, nous remercierons tous nos supporters (actuels et passés).
Nous aimerions profiter de la fin du mois de juin pour les remercier (et vous si vous êtes l’un d’entre eux) d’avoir aidé…
LE CENFACS DANS LE RENFORCEMENT ET LE MAINTIEN DES LIBERTÉS ET DES CAPACITÉS EN TRAVAILLANT EN ALLIANCE AVEC LES POPULATIONS LOCALES POUR DÉVELOPPER DES INITIATIVES DURABLES.
• • Qu’entendez-vous par journées de remerciement ou journées des supporteurs/trices?
Ce sont des jours spéciaux de remerciement que nous aimerions dédier à tous/toutes ceux/celles qui ont contribué à notre travail pour tout type de soutien qu’ils/elles nous ont apporté au cours de cet exercice financier. Cette consécration a normalement lieu la dernière semaine de juin et avant la fin du mois de juin. Pour cette année, des journées de remerciement auront lieu du 26 au 30 juin 2023 afin de garder notre tradition.
Comme nous sommes dans le Mois du développement économique créatif et l’Année de l’influence du CENFACS, nous trouverons toutes sortes de façons créatives, innovantes, bien informées et communicatives de remercier nos précieux(ses) partisan(e)s et bailleurs/eresses de fonds.
Ces moyens de remerciement peuvent inclure ce qui suit:
√ converser avec nos sympathisant(e)s par téléphone
√ signature et envoi des imprimés de remerciement ou de cartes électroniques
√ leur raconter les histoires ou les résultats des personnes et des communautés qu’ils/elles ont aidées grâce à leur soutien
√ leur envoyer des e-mails, des textes et des tweets avec des messages de gratitude
√ raconter et partager des histoires de remerciement
√ jouer et écouter avec eux/elles de la musique et des chansons de remerciement
√ réalisation et lecture de vidéos et de films de remerciement
√ leur redonner en donnant de notre temps à la cause qui leur tient à cœur
√ réalisation d’un service de traduction gratuit (du français vers l’anglais et vice versa)
√ lire des poèmes et de la poésie africains
√ leur envoyer des messages de remerciement numériques et animés technologiquement
√ faire des œuvres créatives et de dessin symbolisant le merci
√ envoi d’objets conçus et fabriqués à la main et d’artisanat de reconnaissance
√ faire des appels vidéo si nous ne pouvons pas avoir de contact en personne avec eux/elles
etc.
Si vous êtes l’un(e) des partisan(e)s du CENFACS, s’il vous plaît nous aimerions vous faire savoir que les jours de remerciement au CENFACS sont vos jours. N’hésitez pas à nous contacter, si vous n’avez pas de nos nouvelles par erreur.
Nous vous accueillerons, renouerons avec vous et vous remercierons à l’occasion pour la différence utile que vous avez apportée à nos bénéficiaires de travail et de projets, et pour être avec nous aux côtés de ceux et celles qui en ont besoin, en particulier pendant cette année difficile des effets persistants du coronavirus et de la crise du coût de la vie.
Votre soutien inestimable a beaucoup compté pour les bénéficiaires de nos programmes et projets au cours de cet exercice financier qui se clôture.
Nous tenons à vous exprimer toute notre sincère gratitude pour nous avoir aidé à réduire la pauvreté, en particulier en ces temps difficiles où les effets secondaires du coronavirus sont suivis de la crise du coût de la vie.
Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter l’équipe de l’Action de grâce de fin juin 2023 du CENFACS.
Main Development
• Research and Development to Create and Innovate Solutions to Win the Battle against Crises
To create and innovate solutions to win the battle against crises, we need research and development. Research and development help to find ideas and tools to drive creation and innovation. But, what are research and development?
To understand research and development carried out by CENFACS, we are going to consider the following items:
∝ Understanding the concepts of research and development
∝ Research and Development within CENFACS
∝ Researching into links of financial education, financial information, financial communication and financial technology with financial behaviour
∝ Testing hypotheses about causal relationships between the access to and use of financial education, information, communication and technology on one hand; and poverty reduction on the other hand
Let us look at each of these items.
• • Understanding the concepts of research and development
There are many ways of conceptualising research and development. In the context of these notes, we have selected the following definitions.
Christopher Pass at al (6) define research and development as
“Any scientific investigation leading to the discovery of new techniques and products (INVENTION) and their commercial application (INNOVATION), together with the refinement and improvement of existing technologies and products” (p. 454)
Their definition, which is an economic one, focuses on the types of research and development conducted by business entities. It can be extended to include not for profit organisations.
Besides the above definition, we are appealing to what the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (7) states, which is
“Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge (p. 2)
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development argues that
“For an activity to be an R&D activity, it must satisfy five core criteria. The activity must be: novel, creative, uncertain, systematic and transferable and/or reproducible. All five criteria are to be met, at least in principle, every time an R&D activity is undertaken whether on a continuous or occasional basis”.
Alongside these five criteria, the kinds of R&D activities in which we are interested would be those that help to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development.
• • Research and Development within CENFACS
The functions of research and development (R&D) are important one within CENFACS. This is because we can only help to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development if we are able to undertake research and develop solutions together with local people to poverty reduction and to the enhancement of sustainable development. In this respect, the kinds of research and development work we do are related to the core activities of poverty reduction and sustainable development.
In the context of this year’s Creative Economic Development Month, we are undertaking two types of applied research projects, which are:
a) Links of financial education, financial information, financial communication and financial technology with financial behaviour
b) Relationships between the access to and use of financial education, information, communication and technology on one hand; and poverty reduction on the other hand.
This is the general scope of our research and development work for this month.
Let us highlight these two research projects.
• • Researching into links of financial education, financial information, financial communication and financial technology with financial behaviour
Financial education, financial information, financial communication and financial technology are the four areas or fields that can predict financial behaviour of people, and amongst these people are the poor. Financial behaviour can be understood here as money management of cash, savings, and credit.
There could be relationship between these four areas and financial behaviour. For instance, there are studies that show that financial literacy can lead to household participation in entrepreneurial activities, commercial insurance participation and choice of lending channels.
But, reliability and validity testing needs to prove this relationship. In other words, the extent that a measurement tool measures what anyone who wants to use to measure this relationship needs to prove it.
As part of research sample on this relationship, we are developing a questionnaire to check it amongst our community members. The evaluation of content of this questionnaire will help to prove or disprove it within our community.
The research will help to understand the financial behaviour of our community members in terms of savings, expenditure, budget, money management (like cash, savings and credit), investment behaviour, etc.
Those members of our community who will be interested in taking part in this research and development work, they can let CENFACS know.
• • Testing hypotheses about causal relationships between the access to and use of financial education, information, communication and technology on one hand; and poverty reduction on the other hand
For those of our members who would like to work with us on the impact of financial education, information, communication and technology on poverty reduction; we have some research activities for them. They can work with us by testing the inference of the following hypotheses:
a.1) Null hypothesis (Ho): there is a relationship between financial education and poverty reduction
a.2) Alternative hypothesis (H1): there is not a relationship between financial education and poverty reduction
b.1) Null hypothesis (Ho): there is a positive relationship between financial information and poverty reduction
b.2) Alternative hypothesis (H1): there is not positive relationship between financial information and poverty reduction
c.1) Null hypothesis (Ho): there is a positive relationship between financial communication and poverty reduction
c.2) Alternative hypothesis (H1): there is not a positive relationship between financial communication and poverty reduction
d.1) Null hypothesis (Ho): there is a positive relationship between financial technology and poverty reduction
d.2) Alternative hypothesis (H1): there is not a positive relationship between financial technology and poverty reduction.
For example, we are going to test if the use of financial technology (that is, technology to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services; technology like Artificial Intelligence) is helping our community members to reduce poverty.
In order to conduct these tests, one needs data on financial education, information, communication and technology about a particular population or community.
The results of these research activities will enable us to proffer solutions to help win the battle against crises. The findings of these studies will also enable to create and innovate ways of working with the community following the emerging needs that the studies will generate.
For further details and or enquiries about these Research and Development activities, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
To support Research and Development to Create and Innovate Solutions to Win the Battle against Crises, please also contact CENFACS.
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• References
(1) https://www.britannica.com/science/natural-disaster (accessed in June 2023)
(2) https://rainfoodtci.org/2020/07/04/crisis-and-disaster-management-explained/ (accessed in June 2023)
(3) https://www.salsalabs.com/blog/advocacy-campaign-planning (accessed in June 2023)
(4) https://www.unep.org/events/un-day/world-environment-day-2023 (accessed in June 2023)
(5) https://www.unccd.int/news-story/notifications/desertification-and-drought-day-17-june-2023 (accessed in June 2023)
(6) Pass, C., Lowes, B. & Davies, L., (1988), Collins Dictionary of Economics, HarperCollins Publishers, London Glasgow
(7) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Frascati Manual 7.0, Chapter 2, The full Frascati Manual and current and upcoming online at http://oecd/frascati (accessed in June 2023)
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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.
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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 2023 and beyond.
With many thanks.
