Grandma Valerie has started doing a monthly call to all members on 15th of month, information for that August 15th to appear here soon. Happy to hear comments from anyone who attended the last one.

from Learn with Grandma International on facebook

Witnessing the children play in full peace at the YETC Center in Kakuma Refugee Camp is truly heartwarming. Their laughter and joy fill the air, showcasing the incredible impact of providing a safe and supportive environment. These moments of happiness and freedom are what we strive for every day. Let's continue to support and uplift our community, ensuring every child has the chance to thrive.

Just look at how we are spreading poison around the World.

We can live without Gold and Diamonds - we NEED clean air.

This film is a few years old but very inspiring! I would love to see what is happening in Kenya now.

Word Forest is a UK based environmental charity, that plant trees, builds classrooms and supports women’s empowerment groups in rural Kenya

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Education is UNESCO’s top priority because it is a basic human right and the foundation for peace and sustainable development. ( yet, even so, 250 million kids are still out of school ) ( ps. The world is fine, with or without humans on it ! )

Shaping the Future of Learning...and being. Founder and President of World Happiness Fest and World Happiness Foundation. Author of The Exponentials of Happiness & Happytalism.

July 2, 2024

In a world grappling with numerous crises, from climate change to social inequality, the future can often seem bleak for the younger generation. ( hmm, yes, since we tend to avoid focus on the wonder of the world we live in, and find it far easier to moan than to propose a solution, far easier to have a 20 minute negative conversation than a two minute positive one, far easier to purchase more than to reduce our footprint ) the UNESCO's recent initiatives, particularly their "Happy Schools" framework, aim to transform this outlook by embedding happiness and well-being at the core of educational systems globally. This vision aligns closely with the principles of Happytalism, which emphasizes happiness and well-being as central to socio-economic development.

UNESCO's "Happy Schools" framework is a holistic model that focuses on creating joyful learning environments. ...where happiness is both a means and an end of education (UNESCO) (UNESCO). The initiative calls for integrating happiness into all aspects of school life, promoting positive relationships, engaging learning processes, supportive environments, and holistic educational principles (UNESCO) (World Education Blog).

 What do Ada, Taylor and Viktoria all have in common ?

The are all clearly Women with Passion with a Global reach.

and they are all invisible to many residents of Kakuma and Nakivale who are not yet blessed with suitable internet access to view them, as we can daily and easily 

here are some shorts:- on the link

We are looking to see if we can create some Childrens Cinema Clubs to spread awareness of such films, more info as it happens here 

https://www.sportanddev.org/latest/news/introducing-baseball5-children-bomet-county-and-kakuma-refugee-camp-kenya

https://viennahub-connecting.mystrikingly.com/#speakers

Vienna Hub

• planning to get denis into Uganda for the end of April to explore a repeat of Kakuma activity in 2023

Vienna Happiness Project

• Pilot series of Happiness Sessions based on The Ten Keys to Happier Living, started 8th April at Pizzeria Mama Mia in Mariahilf

The Learning Street

• revisiting the aggregation of a collection of Learning Spaces, with the intention of building a large lifelong learning community. Promoting interviews, chats and more between Pakistani and African speakers of English to support the aims of Rehan and Mohamed.

News

new logo recently

Movement on Bag of Books here in a strikingly website created as a model for others to replicate for their NGOs or projects. Showing ease of replication we cloned it to Bag of Toys here

Vienna Hub

News

Vienna Happiness Project

News - Street Rep Activity gathering pace in Hietzing with another meetup here

notes:- here is what AI kindly generated just now when asked "How will UN deliver SDG4?"

The United Nations will strive to deliver Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) - Quality Education, in several ways: 1. **Policy Development**: The UN will work with governments worldwide to develop and implement policies that promote equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all. 2. **Collaboration**: Collaborating with international, national, and local stakeholders to provide the necessary resources, including financial aids and technical assistance. 3. **Capacity Building**: Working with teachers and educational institutions to improve their abilities to provide quality education. 4. **Monitoring and Evaluation**: Tracking the progress of countries towards achieving SDG 4, and making adjustments as needed to ensure goals are met. 5. **Advocacy**: Promoting awareness and understanding of SDG 4 among policymakers, educators, parents, students, and the general public. 6. **Innovation**: Encouraging innovative teaching and learning methods, such as digital learning tools, to make education more accessible and effective. Achieving SDG4 is a complex task requiring multi-dimensional efforts across different sectors, regions, and population groups. The role of UN agencies like UNESCO, UNICEF, and others will be crucial in delivering this goal.

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Vienna Hub

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Vienna Happiness Project

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If you are interested in learning more about Entrepreneurship please consider joining the training we are planning. Developed from a concept at Zam City Academy, we are now proposing a series of local events running in three stages. Firstly an introduction day or teaser event, see here for details in Zam City on 7th October. Secondly a 4 week self paced learning based on The Next Step, and resulting in your own version of the Case Study "Birdwatch". Thirdly, a pitching event where some people get to present their ideas in an exciting hybrid event where we are intending to collaborate with Radio Afrika TV.

Vienna Hub

Join us in Pickwicks, Vienna for the hybrid Film Event on 14th September, Faces of Africa ii, please register here

Join us for an exciting in-person event, Vienna Hub Social Networking! Get ready to connect, mingle, and have a blast at the Austria Trend Parkhotel Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria. This event is the perfect opportunity to meet new people, share ideas, and expand your network. If you're a professional in the fields of "art commerce sport education" and interested in meeting other people with passion, this event is for you! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals. Mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable evening!

By invitation. Buy your own beers. Be there or miss out

Registration here on Eventbrite please. See Vienna Hub on LinkedIn, facebook, and blogspot. Web3 Newsletter here. Save the dates - Sept 26 - Oct 24 - Nov 28 - Dec 19 - starting at 7pm

Sport - have you heard of Pinkleball, one of the worlds fastest growing sports? As of now we are looking for people with passion to promote and play Pinkleball. Here for more info and a short video of just how easy it is. We are partnering with Brian at Nairobi Pinkleball Club for starters.

Women with Passion is due to celebrate 20 years in 2024 and we have planted a stake in the ground with an event on Thursday 26th September 2024. Earlybird information here.

Vienna Happiness Project

Last and not least, a series of local events run by Happiness Street Reps starting 12th September in Hietzing. Organised early, for before work and/or after the school run, at Mario's. Please register here and save the date for next meetings - Tuesdays from 08:30 hrs - 09:30 hrs - September 12th - October 10th - November 14th. We are seeking more Happiness Street Reps so if you are interested either contact us or come along on one of the events.

Circling back to Women with Passion which launched in 2004, we are now looking to see if we can find The 6000 Women with Passion ready for 2024 and a 20 year celebration. New profiles done for Puspharani and Christine F, two very different people, but with Passion in common.

To better connect People with Passion this summer we have a program to invite you to - #BestSummerEver, where you get to define and deliver your own summer, in a group of supportive people who may well become new friends!

Art - soon to list Obeezybee's Art Show in Vienna on the August list of events. Chatting to Justin about his Film Academy.

Commerce - looking for people with new business ideas to promote.

Sport - playing with Swimball! - a pool based version of Funball! ( First trial didn't work as the water was too cold for both me and my daughter ) Also HomeBall! - all you need is a ball and a bucket. ParkBall! - take your balls to the park and see what happens :-) New in: Wir freuen uns mitteilen zu dürfen, dass der ASKÖ WAT Wien 2023 bereits zum 14. Mal vom 9. August bis 31. August mit der Aktion SPORT.PLATZ Wien durch Wien tourt. www.sportplatzwien.at ( sports demonstration tour through the districts of Vienna 9th to 31st August )

Education - ( The Learning Street )

Tentatively bringing The Learning Street - Africa alive, showcasing a demonstration Learning Space as a popup at Afrika Tage on 14th, 21st and 28th August. The Learning Space is designed to fit around the #AdventureDiningWien events of "Learning by Eating" African food - reserve your seats here please. Those demonstration days, and the opportunity in Africa to set up lots of Micro Academies seems huge. Looking to invite people with enthusiasm, energy and ability to support this. To join the journey please go here initially - Vienna Hub Creative Circles Africa.

Courses - free and fee - Goal Mapping is a great place to start, please go here and take advantage of Brian's free entry level offering.

Access - free and fee - Looking to set up a monthly learning group in Vienna meeting for an hour in the Holiday Inn, Margareten, with free wifi to members of The Learning Street community, for the price of a small coffee. Similarly a meeting at Mario in Hietzing, where the coffee is on special of 1.80 until 11am, and they have fast free internet for visitors. Thirdly, the good old rule of three, at IKEA, Westbahnhof. This model, of small learning groups, can we hope be easily replicated in other locations, for example Aux Gazelles, Pizzeria Mama Mia and WIRR in Vienna, as well as in other cities acround the globe.

Vienna Happiness Project

Happy Cafe for August information - a good place to keep up to date is here at Action for Happiness Brighton.

Hoping to come out with a Happiness offering shortly, to cover Hietzinger Hauptstrasse and Lainzer Strasse in Vienna run by Iris and Nigel. The intention is now to form a group of 12 in each street, that meets weekly or so to get to know each other better and evolve into more. The streets intersect at Mario! Funnily or not, another pair of Happy Streets meet in similar fashion at Space Flower.

• Focus on a slide show to show how the GOST Program works, to present at Vienna Hub Social Networking on 25th and 26th July

• Gathering early adopters for 12 people per top 500 cities

• Improving the Obeezybee Art Show and offering limited time FUNvestment opportunity for 3 investors to double their money in one day

Vienna Happiness Project

• Iris and Nigel prototyping Street Rep programs in Vienna, with 3 Happiness Coaching sessions performed, getting back in the groove

• MyGOST(c) program for Teenagers - #BestSummerEver

• Planning a monthly zoom Happiness Coaching, to run before Happy Cafe events from Action for Happiness DE / EN.

The Learning Street

• Learning by Eating on Eventbrite , August focus - "Africa"

• PreLearning slides underway for Afrika Tage Wien

• pilot Learning Space under construction, photos soonest

• profile 527 groups of 12 People with Passion running The Learning Street venues, ready to launch a new set of yearbooks for 2024 in December

• profile 527 x 12 profiles of Happiness Street Reps for a Vienna Happiness Project yearbook in December 2023

• have 527 groups of 12 young people profiled, spreading the GOST process with a focus on lifelong learning plans

Vienna Happiness Project

• move towards Street Reps in 527 cities, perhaps in line with the city rollout below, adding a happiness learning module and training new people daily

• raise awareness of the Happy Cafe programs run by World Happiness Project and Action for Happiness by inviting people to attend

• a third thing !

The Learning Street

• Launch a new city daily, stepping up to two cities per day, based on a local core team of 12 People with Passion

• spread the word over time to engage 20% of the city, with half paying two dollars per month membership for access to free and fee learning, at free and affordable fee internet spaces

• have regular running programs of #AdventureDiningVienna, Bag of Books, and

when asked

"please tell me the greatest advance in education in 2022"

interesting

here is a summary of some of our activity in first half 2023

Vienna Hub

• Vienna Hub Social Networking June 27 & 28

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Vienna Happiness Project

• Some online Happy Cafe Activity with Brighton and World Happiness project

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The Learning Street

• Denis teaching Baseball5 and Reading activity in Kakuma Camp. Linking kids in Kakuma sitting with Denis with kids in Malaysia sitting with Puspharani.

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and some of our plans for second half 2023 :-)

• . https://viennahub.blogspot.com/2023/06/vienna-hub-obeezybee.html

• .https://viennahappinessproject.blogspot.com/2023/06/monthly-happy-cafe-meetup-along-your.html

• https://thelearningstreet.blogspot.com/2023/06/news.html

• thank you very much

• much love

• nigel, on behalf of us all

Vienna Happiness Project spreads happiness - two highlights were the talks with Wanjira in Kenya and Yvan from Rwanda about happiness, and how they picked up on the theme. A focus for this year is getting more people to join online happy cafe events.

The Learning Street nurtures learning communities - one highlight was baseball5 activity in Kakuma Camp from Denis, Pascal and others, leading to plans for more activity there this year. Another highlight was finding and creating foldable books, and the excitement they have caused with many people, leading to participation this year in a ULab team on Children's Literacy. A third highlight, establishing a Box of Books in a local cafe, and circulating a Bag of Books among a group of families locally, extending an idea from long ago. Last but not least, a mention for Alie in Freetown and the sheer joy of our communication and the actions it has brought about.

Thank you all, for 2022, and the for the years ahead.

in happiness with love for peace,

Nigel

Vienna Hub connects people with passion. It is moving forward with formation of more Creative Circles, small groups of 12 people around a theme, for example artists in The Avy Project, Mothers and Toddlers ( a new one ) and Education ( a big one ). More information here in the Welcome group

Vienna Happiness Project launches a new event on Happier Hietzinger Haupstrasse, a gathering in Cafe Otto at 8.5 tomorrow, Friday 16th Dec, Eventbrite Invitation here. Its kind of a learning circle on the theme Happiness.

The Learning Street continues forward, pursuing the idea of an Apprentice Global Citizen program of learning, as well as a Global Citizen Internship for older youths. Some learning materials are similar to those found here.

Vienna Happiness Project

Seeking 5 groups of 12 people in each of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, to meet on and off line with a focus on practising happiness.

Vienna Hub

Seeking 5 groups of 12 Women with Passion, who are entrepreneurs, in each of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, to meet on and off line with a focus on accelerating their business, and supporting each other in self managing groups, with issues if any floating up across ar down in all dimensions.

The Learning Street

Seeking 5 groups of 12 Women with Passion, students of entrepreneurship, in each of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America, to meet on and off line with a focus on accelerating their business ideas to fruition under the guidance of warm and friendly guides..

Please in the first instance explore either or both Vienna Hub on LinkedIn and/or VH CC Welcome to Vienna Hub Creative Circles. The Creative Circles are for the membership community, currently planned at 2 euros or dollars per month, or KeS etc. The main service offering is the mentoring circles, and other events either fee or free maybe added as and when. People may be invited, if willing, open minded and passionate, to a Vienna Hub Creative Circle on the theme. Samples here Happiness - Women with Passion - Entrepreneurship

Thank you, as we have always said, be there or miss out!

Note the intention is to provide the mentoring groups, Creative Circles, as a membership service to those paying 2 dollars per month for community membership of The Learning Street. Initially those fees for a whiole going to the purchase of Baby from Elvis Obeezy to promote sales of his work and enable growth

Vienna Hub Creative Circles - Artists on LinkedIn ( New )

Vienna Hub Creative Circles - StepUp.One on LinkedIn ( Been around a bit )

Mentors - Mabel Sky & Elvis Obeezy

Check the Investment Project Opportunities in Africa for Jan 31st here

and The Avy Project Artists here

One of the Streams in focus is Education, the others being, Art, Commerce and Sport.

The Program is in development currently and input is welcome from members and potential attendees via Facebook Group or LinkedIn Group

@

Nigel Stonham

Happiness Coach

Promoting The Learning Street to young changemakers in Kakuma Camp yesterday, shared on facebook chat with them :-

We have a project, The Learning Street, designed to nurture learning along the street. A community of learners follow individual learning programs based at Learning Spaces, with local or remote lifelong mentors. It is registered with 1 million startups, a Vienna organisation started by a friend of mine, Selma. The target for 2023 is to have a community of 20,230 learners, notionally paying 2 dollars per month for 4 dollars per month of benefits.

The Learning Street on linkedin and on facebook - actively seeking A. mentors to guide a group of 10-12 learners, and B. learners keen to cocreate their active learning plan and sit with others who motivate and guide them while learning also. My 4 year old is being prepared to lead / join in a group soonest, playing to her strengths ( English, playing, drawing, speaking ) and learning from others in the groups we meet with.

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