I hope you are all doing well. I’m still finding it hard to concentrate, but this week was very busy!
On Sunday, I participated in a wonderful seminar with the poet, David Whyte who spoke so beautifully about ‘vulnerability’ and helped us understand the creative edge that vulnerability brings us all. Here is the poem, Just Beyond Yourself, that was the focus of the seminar.
Most of us are feeling vulnerable right now. Maybe this will mean an explosion of creativity? What do you feel about this and if creativity has been sparked for you? By this I don’t mean that we are embarking on HUGE, life-changing creative projects, just that maybe a feeling of vulnerability has led us to do something more or a little differently, in a way that is rewarding – ‘just beyond yourself’. Send us your stories or suggestions for books, films, poems etc. that are helping you though these times.
Yes, our list of Covid related resources continues to grow! This week we have added a link to the work of the Children’s Radio Foundation (see #6). From this link, you can listen to young people in Africa talking about their experiences of lockdown.
We read an interesting paper focussed on the social and behavioural science that can be used to support the pandemic response.
We have been chatting with our dear friend Emma who is creating online music lessons for families in lockdown with babies and young children. Here is her website and next week we will have lots of her content on our website for you to enjoy too.
Although we mentioned this last week, just another reminder that we have this new poster for you to download. We needed to make a few important corrections; thanks to Amy for spotting them! Click below to download the poster.
It was great to participate in two meetings this week about Adolescent Nutrition. The first a networking event organised by ENN with people and organisations all over the world involved in research and programmes. The second meeting was to help a team from USAID design a ‘hub’ of resources so that anyone involved in adolescent nutrition programmes have a place to go to access good resources. See our nutrition messages now or our nutrition poster.
This week, young friends of ours BEN and MIN made an audio track of one of our story books, Everyone Counts. Ben (aged 11) was the reader and Min, his older sister, was the editor. I have also been able to recruit a video editor to make a narrated story for YouTube. I expect to get links to this next week. It is BEAUTIFULLY read!
This week we have published…
We are building up to appeal to our friends and community again to help us add more supporters to our 100 supporters group; 100 is our ‘goal’. If we can get 100 supporters donating at a modest level every month, we should be able to make it through this year despite all the funding opportunities we have lost. If you think we are doing useful, valuable work and you want us to carry on donate now and help us read 100! UK taxpayers can also add gift aid.
Keep writing to me and stay safe!
Clare