Welcome to CENFACS’ Online Diary!
23 July 2025
Post No. 414
The Week’s Contents
• Outlines of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025
• July 2025 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Activity Level 3): All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
• 2024-2025 Data Analytics and Insight Generation Activities from 24 to 31/07/2025
… And much more!
• Outlines of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025
Our summer 2025 campaign about finding health relief, happy fulfilment and good wellbeing continues this week with the brief explanations or outlines of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025. Each of these projects has its own outline , which includes project goals and objectives, scope, deliverables, timeline, resources and stakeholders.
The outline is a roadmap that provides a concise overview of the key elements and the goals, while offering a quick understanding of what these projects entail. The outlines are therefore explanations about projects to keep children, young people and families happy, healthy and well over Summer 2025. Like any project, these projects have values and features.
• • Values of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025
Our Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness will be about the following four values or utilities:
1) Our capacity to spread happiness between the members of CENFACS Community to narrow the gap in happiness inequalities (value of spreading happiness)
2) The help we can provide to those who are in most need within the CENFACS Community to find happiness cure and feel happy, to achieve successful outcomes in the current economic context (value of sharing happiness)
3) Our ability to create and innovate happiness-enhancing activities and projects to reduce poverty linked to the lack of happiness (creative and innovative value of happiness)
4) Our kindness to care about those members of our community who are in most need of care (care value of happiness).
These values of the Season of Happiness or Summer of Happiness are also our project values. These values represent the net worth or benefits (e.g., improved happiness) these projects will deliver to our stakeholders (e.g., beneficiaries and users). They are fundamental principles, beliefs or standards that are encapsulated in the projects. They will be measured through metrics such as beneficiary satisfaction and key performance indicators.
• • Features of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025
To the above-mentioned values or utilities, let us also remind our audience that there are three features about this year’s Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects. These features are as follows:
1) the link between CENFACS‘ services and life satisfaction of CENFACS‘ members
2) the distribution of life satisfaction amongst CENFACS‘ members
3) social media and trackers in CENFACS‘ community happiness, healthiness and wellness.
These project features, which represent project aspects, are specific, tangible, functional characteristics or functionalities or capabilities of projects’ deliverables. These features will contribute to the overall value by enabling us to deliver the benefits and positive outcomes for stakeholders.
The above-stated values and features will be reflected in project particulars, that is the specific details, requirements and constraints that define the scope, timeline, budget, and other aspects of the projects. These blended particulars will be apparent as Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects get fully unveiled and implemented.
The outlines of these projects can be found under the Main Development section of this post. The full details of these projects are also available on request from CENFACS, including ways of accessing and using them.
To access and or support them, please contact CENFACS.
• July 2025 All-in-one Impact Feedback and Assessment (Activity Level 3): All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme
Our 3-tier impact feedback has reached its third activity level or tier. Unlike All-in-one Impact Feedback of our 2024-2025 Programmes and Projects given by Users and Stakeholders, All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F Programme is provided by CENFACS to inform its audience (including users and stakeholders) about the progress it is making in terms of this programme. Some of the statements made about this programme come from what it has been recently argued within the literature about the elements of this programme.
• • What Is This All-in-one Impact Feedback from CENFACS about?
CENFACS’ All-in-one Impact Feedback of XX236.3 F (2020 to 2030 to 2063 Follow up) Programme is a comprehensive approach to gathering and utilising feedback to understand the effects of this programme. It is timely, specific, and focused on impact. It is about the observation on the following five key components of this follow-up programme:
(a) The Paris Treaty
(b) The Istanbul Declaration
(c) The Maputo Treaty
(d) The United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals
(e) Africa’s Agenda 2063.
This feedback provides our feelings and what we would like (if we could) to be different regarding these five frameworks or pieces of work. It is also about the insights that others have offer about them.
Our observation, feelings and need of difference will be in terms of progresses and shortcomings concerning these frameworks. Our observation, feelings and need of difference are indeed in relation to the kind of work of poverty reduction we do since these global and international frameworks/initiatives greatly impact us. These frameworks provide us a reference to align our work with a global/African vision for a better world. This alignment helps us to foster collaboration between us and other organisations having similar aims to us in order to create a more impactful and long-lasting approach to address the issue of poverty that our community and sister communities face. So, these frameworks provide us with valuable tools to connect our work to a global and African audiences and movements for poverty reduction and sustainable development, while contributing to a better Africa and world.
Our feedback is not an evaluation of these frameworks of work. What observation do we make about them?
• • Observation about the Five Pillars of XX236.3 F Programme
The following statement is what we would like to make about the five pillars.
∝ Regarding the International Climate Change Agreement (or the Paris Treaty), it is true to acknowledge that there have been some processes and setbacks in terms of global climate action. There have been some positive impacts like
~ the maintenance of the momentum in global ambition (in terms of Nationally Determined Contributions and net-zero emissions goals) although the USA withdrew their support;
~ enhanced transparency and reporting (to track progress on mitigation, adaptation and support);
~ mobilization of finance (e.g., increased investment in clean energy and climate-related projects);
~ shift towards net-zero targets (i.e., a long-term vision for decarbonisation);
~ global collaboration (i.e., a sense of global cooperation and shared responsibility in addressing climate change).
Despite the above-mentioned positive impacts, there are also challenges such as the lack of binding enforcement mechanisms, insufficient ambition to limit global warming to 1.5°C, uneven ambition, continued reliance on fossil fuels, climate justice issues (like in Africa where the victims of floods due to torrential rains cannot get justice), etc.
Overall, efforts are needed to strengthen commitments, enhance transparency and accountability, and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.
∝ Concerning the Istanbul Declaration, it has to be recognised that it has a great potential for the protection of women against violence. We are continuing to observe the Istanbul Declaration, in particular the work of the Committee of the Parties to the Council of Europe Convention of Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention) and its Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO). We are as well following up the outcomes from its 18th meeting held in Strasbourg, France (1)
∝ As to the Maputo Treaty, it has delivered some positive impacts of women’s rights in Africa so far (2). Among the these impacts, it can be mentioned the following:
~ legal and policy changes in terms of alignment with the Maputo Protocol provisions for countries that adopted it
~ criminalisation of harmful practices (like Female Genital Mutilation and Gender-based Violence)
~ increased access to abortion (with the expansion of abortion services in Africa)
~ strengthening of judicial decisions (in line with the rights enshrined in the Maputo Protocol)
~ empowered advocacy by holding governments accountable by women’s rights organisations
~ enhanced political participation of women in political processes
etc.
Besides these progresses, there are still challenges like reservations and non-ratification by certain African countries, resistance to gender equality, implementation gaps, limited impact in some areas (e.g., reproductive health and economic empowerment, need for gender awareness among many sections of the African population), ongoing discrimination and inequality in many aspects of life in Africa.
∝ As far as the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals are concerned, it emerges from the reviews about them that these goals have continued to considerably influence global research, policy, and public discourse. There have been some successes or gains in terms of poverty reduction, child mortality, disease control and other areas. Nonetheless, these gains are uneven within and between nations and communities. There are setbacks in many areas due to climate change, economic instability, the lingering effects of the coronavirus, etc. Many vulnerable people continue to be excluded from the development gains, despite the principle of ‘Leave No One Behind’.
∝ With respect to Africa’s Agenda 2063, it makes sense to argue that the main areas of progress of this Agenda include so far the African Continental Free Trade Area, enhanced infrastructure (like roads, air transport, electrification, and Information and Communications Technology), and improved living standards, particularly in access to safe drinking water and sanitation. However, challenges remain in areas like poverty, inequality, malnutrition, healthcare, and political instability, infrastructure deficiencies, political instability and conflict, foreign aid cuts, monitoring and accountability.
From this observation, we would like to make two points below.
1) We are following up and examining, looking back and analysing data on the overall projects and programmes delivered during the financial year 2024-2025 in relation to XX236.3F programme. This exercise will help our all-in-one impact feedback system to drive continuous improvement and achieve desired outcomes.
2) These frameworks or pillars provide us with valuable tools to connect our work to a global, African and local audience and movement for poverty reduction and sustainable development, while contributing to a better world.
The above is just an observation we wanted to make about these pillars. Some elements of this observation do not come from us as many people have the same feeling or view like ours. This observation is not complete.
For those who would like to know more about our observation, feelings and need of difference regarding these pieces of framework of work, they can contact CENFACS.
• 2024-2025 Data Analytics and Insight Generation Activities from 24 to 31/07/2025
The two tasks or activities (i.e., data analytics and data insight generation of the programmes and projects we ran in the last financial year) are being carried out and will finish by the 31st of July 2025. Although these data activities are jointly conducting, we are going to briefly highlight each of them. We shall as well consider the experiences of Africa-based Sister Organisations in analysing data and generating insights.
• • 2024-2025 Data Analytics Activity from 24 to 31/07/2025
To highlight Data Analytics Activity, it is better to mention what needs to be said concerning this activity and its usefulness.
• • • What this Data Analytics Activity is about
It is about continuing to collect, transform and organise 2024-2025 data. To do that, we are using descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive data analytics. Data analytics skills such as data management, probability, statistics and others (like AI-powered tools) are also engaged in this analytics and insight process.
Once this work is completed, we shall draw conclusions, make predictions and drive informed decision-making process about our poverty reduction work. In other words, we will be using data findings to theorise and forecast poverty reduction as well as build data systems.
For example, we shall look at what fundraising data, humanitarian appeals data and so on will tell us. We can also consider data from the campaign on financial controls in 2025 and determine to continue or redesign or close this campaign.
• • • How this Data Analytics Activity is useful
This Data Analytics Activity will help to track projects (like All-year Round Projects or Triple Value Initiatives) as well as to make informed decision for the new financial year. We can look at data about services we provide and decide which ones to continue, update or close. We can further check the community members’ data or beneficiaries’ data to decide if the needs have been met or unmet within the community. This data analytics will help to drive CENFACS‘ strategy in the new financial year.
• • 2024-2025 Data Insights Generation from 24 to 31/07/2025
To draw attention to Data Insights Generation we are conducting, we are going to narrate what relates to it and its helpfulness.
• • • What this Data Insight Generation is about
It is about collecting, organising and curating data about the 2024-2025 programmes and projects. We are as well extracting knowledge from 2024-2025 data while analysing the extracted knowledge. Once this knowledge extraction is completed, we shall hypothesize action plans for each insight and apply the insight/action plan.
• • • How this Data Insight Generation is helpful
Gleaned data-driven insights will help in a number of ways. For example, they can assist in the following:
√ identifying, categorising and crafting individualised messages to prospective donors for marketing purpose
√ customising messages to Africa-based Sister Organisations
√ finding out new members for targeted marketing in terms of their preferences
√ detecting users’ needs in times of high demand induced by natural catastrophes or crises (like the cost-of-living crisis, geo-economic crisis) or war events in Africa
√ determining popular contents within the CENFACS Community
√ improving CENFACS reporting and analytics capabilities
√ boosting CENFACS poverty reduction work
√ enhancing CENFACS‘ work on sustainable development
etc.
In short, the process of data insight generation will help analyse data to extract meaningful information that can inform CENFACS‘ decision-making and strategic planning.
• • Data Analytics and Insight Generation Experiences from the Perspective of Africa-based Sister Organisations (ASOs)
This week, we are as well looking at the way in which our Africa-based Sister Organisations perceive data analytics and insight generation. We are inviting ASOs that have impact stories or case studies or experiences about their own data analytics and insight generation processes to share with us.
Likewise, we are asking to those ASOs that need advisory support in the area of data analytics and insight generation to let us know. This is an opportunity to learn and develop best practices and policies in this area.
Need to share your work or experience in terms of data analytics and insight generation for the programmes and projects you are running, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
The above is the summary of 2024-2025 Data Analytics and Insight Generation activities.
For those who would like to know more about these activities, they can contact CENFACS.
Extra Messages
• Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities – In focus from Wednesday 23/07/2025: Operational Analysis, Key Performance Indicators, and Impact Assessment
• The Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household – Session/Application 3: Resource Management (from Wednesday 23/07/2025)
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal – Summer Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Journal of Happy, Healthy and Social Support/Wellness
• Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities – In focus from Wednesday 23/07/2025: Operational Analysis, Key Performance Indicators, and Impact Assessment
We are continuing to take detailed steps and actions to execute the plan for Analytics and Insight Month at the level of CENFACS and to ensure it reaches its objectives. This is the phase we are moving our Analytics and Insight project of the month from planning to active development and delivery. To put into action our plan for Analytics and Insight Activities, we are undertaking the activities below, from this Wednesday.
• • Operational Analysis for Various Data Types Activity
Under this sub-heading, we shall consider financial forecasting, cost recovery and efficiency, risk management, and data quality management. Let us summarise the contents of this sub-activity.
~ Financial forecasting
It is about analysing CENFACS‘ revenue and expenditure patterns and their links with budgets created and financial forecasts made.
~ Cost recovery and efficiency
It is about identifying areas where costs can be reduced, resources can be optimized, and processes can be streamlined.
~ Risk management
It is about using data to identify potential risks (e.g., financial overspending) and implement appropriate financial controls.
~ Data quality management
It is about ensuring the accuracy and reliability of data across all systems for effective analytics and decision-making.
• • Key Performance Indicators for Financial Analysis Activity
We shall consider using metrics such as total amount raised, average donation, CENFACS website visitor numbers, and online/press exposure to measure performance and impact. With these measures together with income and expenditure/payments accounts, the information on fund movements and reserves; we shall analyse CENFACS‘ assets and liabilities, and the overall financial health based on CENFACS balance sheet.
• • Impact Assessment for Impact Activity
Under this sub-heading, we shall proceed with the following: measuring outcomes, building an impact assessment framework, and telling the story of CENFACS‘ impact. Let us summarise each of these contents.
~ Outcomes measurement
We shall use both quantitative (e.g., surveying, routine data collection) and qualitative (e.g., interviews) data and methods to assess the impact of CENFACS activities.
~ Building an impact assessment framework
We shall establish a framework to guide the measurement and reporting of impact.
~ Storytelling
We shall use stories from those who benefited from our work, visuals, and narratives to bring impact data to life and connect with our varied audiences.
In short, as part of implementing analytics and impact activities, we are going to conduct the above-mentioned three specific activities for this week, while dealing with the broad aspects of Analytics and Impact Month 2025. We hope that these activities and those that precede them will help gain valuable insights into CENFACS performance, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate its impact to stakeholders.
• • Last Words about Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities
The results of this Specific Implementation of Analytics and Impact Activities conducted during this month of July 2025 will be included and published in CENFACS Annual Report and Accounts 2024-2025. The report will be made available on this site.
For any queries and/or enquiries prior to this publication or about any other matters, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
• The Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household – Session/Application 3: Resource Management (from Wednesday 23/07/2025)
In this third application, we are going to work on three areas of managing household resources: optimizing energy consumption, inventory management, and waste management. Let us summarise each of these areas.
• • Optimising Energy Consumption
It can be done by using smart thermostats and energy monitoring systems, which can provide data on energy usage. This will allow households to identify areas where they can reduce consumption and save money on utility bills.
• • Inventory Management
It is about tracking household list of articles and goods (e.g., groceries, cleaning supplies) to avoid overbuying or running out of essential items or stocks.
• • Waste management
Households can analyse their waste generation patterns to identify opportunities to reduce waste and improve recycling efforts.
Regardless of the size of the income they possess, all households need to manage their resources. They need to optimise their energy consumption, to track their items and reduce the waste they generate.
Those members of our community who will be interested in Session/Application 3 as well as the all support about The Application of Data and Insight Skills to Manage Your Household, they should not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
• Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Journal – Summer Creative Activity No. 1: Create Your Journal of Happy, Healthy and Social Support/Wellness
Social support is one of the six predictors of happiness and healthiness. But, what is social support? Social support can be defined in many ways. According to ‘verywellmind.com’ (3),
“Social support involves having a network of family and friends that you can turn to in times of need”.
The website ‘verywellmind.com’ adds by arguing this:
“Social support refers to the psychological and material resources provided by a social network to help individuals cope with stress”.
One can refer to the above definition and create a journal for having someone to count on in time of trouble like of any crisis or any other social network matter over this Summer. They can do more within this first creative activity. One can as well include in this journal social wellness, that is the development of positive relationships or connections with other people.
• • What else They Can Do as Part of This Summer Creative Activity no.1
They can create a journal for the things and people who have been socially supportive to their enjoyment and good conditions of life during this Summer 2025. They can as well include in the same journal any development of positive relationships with people or social connections they had as part of social wellness.
They can record their thoughts, feelings and experiences in relation to the social support they have received or given.
They can share with the community their experience of happy and healthy social support/wellness as recorded in their journal by the end of Summer 2025.
• • Sharing the Content of Your Journal
One of the objectives of this journal is to share one’s Summer holiday experience. Thus, sharing your Summer holiday experience via the records from your journal could be helpful and useful for others who are looking for social support and inspiration. You can share the content of your journal via CENFACS by submitting it.
To submit the contents of your happiness, healthiness and wellness journal relating to social support and wellness, and help build a better Summer holiday experience within the community, please contact CENFACS.
When submitting the content of your journal to us, please do not forget to give us permission to share it.
Message in French (Message en français)
• Budgets de Bonheur, de Santé et de Bien-être 2025 – Excédent Budgétaire des Vacances
Nous continuons nos astuces, conseils et trucs pour aider à budgétiser le Bonheur, la Santé et le Bien-être en examinant le surplus budgétaire des vacances.
• • Qu’est-ce qu’un surplus budgétaire ?
Un surplus est généralement défini comme le montant par lequel le revenu est supérieur aux dépenses. Le site web ‘bill.com’ (4) explique que
« Un excédent se produit lorsque vous avez plus d’argent que ce dont vous avez besoin. »
En termes d’excédent de budget de vacances, cela signifie simplement que les dépenses de vacances d’une personne sont inférieures à ses revenus de vacances. C’est un solde positif qui indique de l’argent restant qui peut être économisé ou dépensé.
Cependant, parler d’excédent de budget de vacances peut ne pas être une perspective que l’on peut attendre des personnes pauvres ou de celles qui sont dans le besoin. Ce sont les personnes qui luttent souvent pour joindre les deux bouts du mois. Ce sont celles qui manquent souvent d’argent pour faire face aux fins de mois. Ce sont celles que nous visons afin qu’elles puissent créer un excédent dans leur budget de vacances pour profiter de la joie, de la santé et du bien-être. Malgré cela, tout être humain sensé devrait établir un budget, ici un budget de vacances.
• • Que faire d’un surplus de budget pour les vacances
Un surplus de budget pour les vacances peut être utilisé de nombreuses manières. Le site web ‘bill.com’ (op. cit.) suggère deux allocations possibles, qui sont l’épargne (mettre de l’argent sur un compte d’épargne pour les urgences et les augmentations inattendues du coût de la vie) et les dépenses pour rembourser des dettes ou réinvestir.
Cependant, pour les personnes dans le besoin, leurs options sont limitées si elles parviennent à créer un surplus de budget pour les vacances, sauf à refinancer leurs besoins essentiels pour la vie. Pourtant, cette limitation ne les empêche pas de budgétiser leurs vacances.
• • Ce qui est bon dans le budget de vos vacances
Établir un budget pour vos vacances ou votre foyer est un processus de réflexion proactive qui peut aider à coordonner les différentes zones de la vie domestique tout en définissant des responsabilités et en déléguant des pouvoirs au sein du même foyer. C’est en effet un instrument de contrôle du foyer ainsi qu’une base pour le processus de prise de décision et le changement de plans lorsque cela est nécessaire.
Pour les ménages de notre communauté qui connaissent le processus de budgétisation, ils savent qu’ils doivent budgétiser leurs revenus et dépenses de vacances. Pour ceux qui ne sont pas familiers avec ce processus, le CENFACS est disponible pour aider et soutenir.
• • Travailler avec la communauté sur le budget des vacances
Nous sommes disponibles pour travailler sur le processus de budgétisation avec ceux ou celles qui ont des difficultés à joindre les deux bouts du mois et ceux ou celles qui s’intéressent à budgétiser leurs dépenses et revenus de vacances. Nous travaillerons sur la façon de créer un surplus de budget de vacances et de gérer durablement le budget des vacances cet été 2025.
Pour ceux ou celles qui sont familiers (ères) avec les outils en ligne, ils/elles peuvent trouver d’innombrables exemples de budgets familiaux ou de ménage, parfois sous forme de feuilles de calcul Microsoft ou de logiciels de comptabilité.
Pour ceux ou celles qui ne sont pas familiers (ères) avec ces ressources disponibles gratuitement en ligne, ils/elles peuvent utiliser la ligne de soutien en conseils financiers de CENFACS.
Lors de l’élaboration de ce budget pour le Bonheur, la Santé et le Bien-être estivaux, il est préférable d’inclure des chiffres relatifs à tous les contextes et facteurs économiques et non économiques.
Nous allons donc vérifier avec eux/elles comment ces contextes et facteurs peuvent influer sur leur budget de vacances ou de ménage. Cet exercice permet de prendre en compte la manière dont ces contextes et facteurs affectent leur budget de vacances en ce qui concerne ce qu’ils/elles mangent, boivent, couvrent ou découvrent leur corps, se divertir, se loger, etc.
Pour apprendre ou demander de l’aide sur la façon de créer et de gérer durablement un surplus de budget de vacances ou un solde budgétaire positif cet été 2025, veuillez contacter CENFACS.
Main Development
• Outlines of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025
The following headings will help to outline or summarise Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025:
∝2025 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Wellness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
∝Essential Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects
∝ Other Summer Projects around Me.
Let us briefly uncover these headings.
• • 2025 Edition of Summer of Happiness, Healthiness, Wellness, Peace, Vulnerability-free, Protection and Sustainability
This 2025 Edition is out now and trending. It covers the main initiatives and activities planned for this summer. In this edition, the 2025 Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects may have kept the same names for some of these projects like in the previous Summers, but their contents reflect this year’s themes of happiness, healthiness and wellness in the treble context of lingering impacts of polycrises, extreme temperatures and the struggle that low-income peoples have to meet their basic life-sustaining needs.
These projects are as follows:
1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource (this year’s focus is on A Restorative Holiday)
2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
3) Summer Harmony with Nature
4) True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
5) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security
6) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities.
They are the combination of skills, knowledge, resources, tools, fixers, enhancements, boosters and tasters for poverty relief and sustainable development. They consist of:
√ Two resource projects (Family Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Mini-Guide, and Holiday Information Manager)
√ One communication-protection project (Networking Platform for Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness)
√ One climate and environmental campaign (Summer Harmony with Nature)
√ One interactive (interaction between people and their community) project (True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness)
√ One set of initiatives to stay well (Wellness Enhancing Activities).
They are the projects to move forward to protect the gains of poverty reduction work, while building upon progress to achieve a more equitable and inclusive society.
In their design, we have considered the effects of climate change all over our Summer 2025 Programme. In other words, all the six Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects will have green, sustainable, and climate changing and resilient contents. They will be aligned with greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets. The consideration of the effects of climate change and resilience all across is what makes Summer 2025 of a zero or neutral carbon one.
This is done to help improve life evaluation while taking actions to enhance the same life in a changing climate. In this way, Summer can be a season of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness NOT of Misery for un-served and under-served children, young people and families who are at the same time the victims of the adverse effects of climate change, particularly but not exclusively extreme temperatures.
They are the victims of adverse effects of climate change because climate change affects the way they dress, eat, house, educate, entertain, care for their health, and above all the way they pass Summer holiday.
We can briefly present these projects one by one as follows.
• • Essential Summaries of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects 2025
Here are the essential summaries of the Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects making the 2025 Summer Programme Part II. As said previously, these projects can help in achieving some happy, helpful, healthful and hopeful Summer plans, goals and outcomes.
• • • 1) ‘Holiday with Relief’ Resource with a focus on a Restorative Holiday
Holiday with Relief is one of CENFACS useful and helpful ICDP (Individual Capacity Development Programme) resources for holiday makers and travellers. The resource, which is published during Spring of every year, can also be used during Summer holiday or any holiday.
The current Issue of our ICDP Resource entitled as ‘Holiday with Relief’ focuses on a Restorative Holiday.
This year, the resource deals with holiday to improve health, strength and spirits, or any other aspects of life for holiday makers. It is for those who are expected holiday to be a provider of a break from daily life, focussing on rejuvenation, relaxation, and reconnection with oneself, family, or nature. It is about a Restorative Holiday, that is a holiday that creates space for rest, rebuilding and renewing, often through activities like quiet relaxation, wellness retreats, or disconnecting from technology.
This year, ‘Holiday with Relief’ provides wealthy advice, tips and hints to dive into restorative holiday. Through this wealth of information, we will try to tackle restorative holiday poverty or poverty due to the lack of space, means and conditions for rest, rebuilding and renewing your life, whether at home or away from home. As ever, the resource is packed with seasonal relieving ideas about how to reduce restorative holiday poverty.
To build forward a happy, healthy and well Summer break, and or get this Family Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Mini-Guide, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 2) Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities
Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities (‘NAGAHAIN’) Project is our Information Manager for this year’s summer. The goal of the ‘NAGAHAIN’ Project is to help make the distribution of subjective well-being even or equal within the community. It assists in the reduction of the variation of happiness levels across individuals within the community. What is really about?
It is about using the following strategies to narrow happiness inequalities:
√ Improving the psychological equality or happiness quality or even subjective well-being
√ Enhancing happiness levels amongst the members of CENFACS Community to avoid high levels of happiness differences
√ Ensuring equitable access to resources
√ Promoting fairness and inclusion
√ Addressing economic disparities
√ Increasing the community trust, that is the belief in the integrity of other members of our community.
One of the concerns for many people and families is how to pass this Summer happy and healthy under the constraints of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises.
The NAGAHAIN Project/Resource as Holiday Information Manager is the awareness, preparedness and solutions-focused Resource to Manage Information to turn summer of constraints and worries into that of happiness, healthiness and wellness. It contains a set of tips and tricks to help and enable vulnerable unaware people to plan their holiday or break with confidence to achieve the goal of increasing happiness, healthiness and wellness.
For further details about this Holiday Information Manager or Narrowing Gaps in Happiness Inequalities, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 3) Summer Harmony with Nature
Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness is also of accord with nature with its creatures. Keeping a harmonious relationship with leaves, plants, animals, landscapes and surrounding natural species (like trees, plants, fungi, waters, parks, etc.) and resources adds a great value to our happiness, healthiness and wellness. In other words, it is about equating our needs of happiness, healthiness and wellness to those of the nature. It is about emphasizing a balanced relationship where human activities are aligned with the well-being of the planet and its ecosystems.
Living in harmony with nature means that to pass a good summer we do not need to upset the nature with its creatures. Humans can pre-emptively take the lead by keeping their relationships as harmonious as possible to avoid the degradation and depletion of nature. They can do it through…
σ the recognition of interconnectedness
σ the respect for natural processes
σ undertaking sustainable practices
σ the respect of rights of nature
σ having non-anthropocentric view
σ integrating social and ecological justice
etc.
Need to keep harmony with nature, please do not hesitate to contact or connect with CENFACS’ Summer Campaign over Nature.
• • • 4) True Balance in Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness
Through this initiative, we shall work with users to address some forms of imbalance in happiness; imbalance between happiness as an individual experience and happiness as a collective endeavour. In other words, we shall support the community members to achieve their own happiness without compromising the ability of the other members of the community they belong to have their own happiness.
Balance is also about giving each part of our life the correct amount of care and attention as suggested by ‘mindfulmovement.me’ (5). The same ‘mindfulmovement.me’ argues that balance means we have to learn how to embrace life’s dualities.
By finding your personal balance, this can help to discover the true balance or right proportions in happiness, healthiness and wellness.
It is in the interaction in happiness of each of our members and the CENFACS Community that the true balance in happiness, healthiness and wellness can be found. It involves cultivating healthy habits, finding joy in daily life, and nurturing meaningful relationships.
To find out further about this Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Project, please contact CENFACS.
• • • 5) Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security
Networking for Protection, Safeguarding and Security (N4PSS) is a CENFACS Social Media Platform to facilitate the flows of information and communication in order to keep local children, young people and families (CYPFs) out of the threats, troubles, attacks and challenges of everyday life and during the Summertime of changing climate, rising costs of living and lingering effects of the polycrises.
N4PSS is about improving the Flow of Information over the Summertime amongst us and other stakeholders by gaining access to mutual support, facilities, services and resources in order to protect and safeguard multi-dimensional deprived CYPFs. It is also about applying the five main areas of safeguarding which are: recognize, respond, report, record and refer.
It is not enough to carry out our individual actions against any crisis unless we sum up them by coming together in the form of social connections as human chains. Such connections or networks will help to exchange information and data for the mutual interest and collective defence or security.
N4PSS can even go further by forming a network security to protect the usability and integrity of our network and data. It includes protecting network infrastructures, preventing threats (e.g., cyber threats), ensuring data integrity and availability, and creating a combination of solutions to build a robust defensive system.
N4PSS encompasses various strategies and technologies to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of network resources. This type of network will help to undertake behavioural analytics and react to questionable activities that can pose a threat to the CENFACS Community members.
N4PSS can as well keep us safe, identify security issues, create an incident response plan, while setting up a firewall around us and encrypting any data we try to transmit. This is important since protection and security are also about data that run our individual and community lives. In this respect, our network security can include components such as intrusion detection and prevention systems, access control, security system updates, etc.
N4PSS against any Crisis or Summer Social Media Platform is a means to access and facilitate the flows of information about the protection, safeguarding and security against any crisis. It is our capacity to help protect our members from threats, risks and attacks. Through this means, one can receive and pass on protective, safeguarding and security information about any threats and risks from the rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises within a networked community.
To network for protection, safeguarding and security against any crisis, please let CENFACS know.
• • • 6) Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities
To understand this Happiness-Healthiness-and-Wellness initiative; it is better to explain its three components, which are Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities.
Community Care (or care in the community) refers to health and social care services provided outside of hospitals or residential care facilities with the aim of supporting individuals in their own homes and communities.
Health Responsibility can be explained as the idea that individuals should actively manage their own well-being through lifestyle choices and preventive measures.
Wellness Enhancing Activities are activities that promote physical and mental health.
Let us put together the above-defined components.
Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities are a combination of the physical, emotional and social support to people/our community members to live with care, control and dignity in our community on the one hand; and our shared responsibility for the public health on the other. So, health responsibility means that our community members fulfil their duties to maintain their physical, mental and social well-being. Community care and responsibility imply whatever we do we must comply with the rule of the community, society in which we live. Wellness activities describe anything (like meditation, walking, gardening, DIY, physical exercise, etc.) being done to help achieve the overall health goal.
We can use this Happiness-Healthiness-and-Wellness initiative to create a safe Wellness or Healthcare Plan. Such a plan will include the following: health vision and goals, lifestyles habits, follow-up tips and checks.
Through this Personal/Family Healthcare Plan, we will try to reduce lifestyle-induced diseases for ourselves and others while promoting our own health without adversely impacting the health of others and future generations.
For further details about Community Care, Health Responsibility and Wellness Enhancing Activities, please contact CENFACS.
The above six interlinked themed ways/projects of creating and sustaining Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness in a Summer of rising costs of living, changing climate and lingering effects of the polycrises do not replace any good advice and practice (like the ones produced by statutory bodies). They just add value to what it is already in place. They are to be used in conjunction with the existing other measures to bring happiness as well as health and safety measures.
For further details about any of these projects, please do not hesitate to contact CENFACS.
• • Other Summer Projects around Me
So far, we have highlighted what CENFACS can do to help build a Summer of Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness. Besides CENFACS, there are countless projects and programmes that can help anyone to meet their Summer goals or plans. They include holiday camps, arts activities, clubs and activity classes, workshops, trails and tales, theatre, family farms, places to visit over Summer, etc. Depending on where one lives and which online platforms one uses, there are projects and programmes that can bring happiness, healthiness and wellness. Put it simply, there is something that one can do over Summer in-person or virtual to stay happy, healthy and well this Summer.
For example, if you live in the Broadgreen ward of Croydon, there is Handcroft, Eastney and Tamworth ‘Summer Fun‘. This is a two-week period of fun for 8 plus years (and under 8’s with parents), which includes sports, games, arts and craft, music and much more. You can access this initiative by contacting the organisers as follows:
e: info@playplaces.org
w: www.playplace.org
Similarly, if you live in the county of Surrey, you can check ‘ABC magazine’ – the local information magazine for parents in Surrey – at www.abcmagazine.co.uk. The magazine tells you the places to go to, things to do, ideas and resources to help you over this Summer.
For those of our members who are looking for Summer activities other than CENFACS‘ Happiness, Healthiness and Wellness Projects; and they do not know where to find them, CENFACS can work with them to guide them. They can contact CENFACS for guidance and support. They can as well follow us on X to catch up with what is happening during this Summer 2025.
We would like to wish all multi-dimensionally Poor Children, Young People and Families Happy, Healthy, Well, Vulnerability-free, Peaceful, Safe and Sustainable Summer Days.
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• References
(1) https://www.coe.int/en/web/istanbul-convention/committee-of-the-parties (accessed in July 2025)
(2) https://soawr.org/up-content/uploads/SOAWR-Maputo-Protocol-Report-07-PDF.pdf (accessed in July 2025)
(3) https://www.verywellmind.com/social-support-for-psychological-health-4119970 (accessed in July 2023)
(4) https://bill.com/learning/budget-surplus (accessed in July 2024)
(5) https://mindfulmovement.me/blog-eng/why-balance-is-key-to-live-a-happy-and-successful-life (accessed in July 2024)
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