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Officer expenses for September and October 2007

Here are offier expense claims for September and October.
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Executive committee meeting, 24 October 2007

REPORT OF AFCONET MEETING

Wednesday, 24TH OCT. 2007

Venue: Good Samaritan Centre

 

Start: the meeting started around 5: 15 p.m.

Attendance:

1. Furaha Dimitrios

2. Violet Yimbo

3. Steven Milambo

4. Mary Mabhaya

5. Theobald Mtema

6. Shaban Madega

7. Richard Mwendilemo

8. Donatian Marusu

9. Yovita Makoko

 

Absentees:

1. Pascal Maziku

2. Chrispine Mwansanga

 

Agenda:

1. Past meeting report

2. Children picnic

3. Report from London

4. meeting topic presentation and presenters

5. leadership challenges

6. AoB

 

* Past meeting report: was briefly read by the deputy secretary Violet Yimbo and the concerns were discussed among other meeting agenda.

 

* Children's picnic: the committee volunteered to make preparations met twice and is expected to give feedback in the coming network meeting for further action. On the other hand, Yovita will make follow up to get the report and send to members via the group mail.

 

* Report from London: NA

 

* Meeting topic presentation and presenters: for improving the meeting topics the members will be required to propose the topics appealing to them and presenters who can either come from among the Network members or external for Furaha to make a list for ease reference and use. We also need to prepare presenters who will be stand-by to fill the gapes in case the expected presenter withdraws.

 

* Leadership challenges: the excom members suggested that before the end of the Network meeting we need to spare sometime about 15 minutes for participants to give opinions about the meeting process and administration

 

 

AoB

 

* Network Constitution: We need to refer to the Network constitution regularly in the network operations. Every group need to have a copy of it.

 

* Mini library project: group members to give feedback in the network meeting whether they have space and can accommodate the procedures for the mini library smoothly

* Fund raising: we need to prepare as many proposals as possible. All the group members are invited to contribute ideas or frameworks of funding proposals

 

* Network office: Chiyowonet accepted to host the network in one of their office rooms, so next excom meeting will be held at the very room for officiating it while still on the process to prepare office equipment and furniture

 

* Account opening at Barclays Bank: Yovita has worked to prepare all the documents, CWCA will volunteer to sign as advocates. Since the network has no office then the signatories need approval from the Local Government as supporting evidence, this adds to delay of the process.

 

* Excom meeting timetable: Violet will prepare and send it via the group mail. The next Excom meeting will take place at Chiyowonet where the Network office will be on 21 Nov. 20007. The host excom member will help lead the meeting.

 

* Mosquito treated Nets: this will be discussed in the next network meeting on how to incorporate supply of treated nets and prevention of malaria among network activities

 

End;

* The chairman took time to thank the Excom members for good attendance. This shows that the day chosen (Wednesday) for meeting is conducive.

 

* The members were reminded that the Network meeting will take place on 27th Oct. 2007 at National Library Centre, at 8:00 a.m.

 

The meeting ended around 6:30 p.m.

 

Prepared by:

Donatian Marusu

25th Oct. 2007

Yaliyomo presentation

Kiswahili -- Here is the Yaliyomo presentation.
Download YALIYOMO.rtf

It is also available as a much bigger PowerPoint file. Note: this will take a long time to download if you are in Tanzania. It contains the same words as the file above, and no extra images.
Download YALIYOMO.ppt

Network meeting 27 October 2007

Two records - first Pascal Maziku, secretary; then Donatian Marusu, coordinator.

MINUTES OF AFCONET MEETING

Venue: Maktaba Hall
Date: 27th/10/2007

 

INTRODUCTION:

This report expresses the meeting which was conducted at Maktaba Hall(National Library hall) on 27th October, 2007.

Agenda of the Meeting:

* Opening of the meeting

* Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting held on 29th September 2007

* Session: TOOL ON ORGANIZATION SELF ASSESMENT FOR AFCONET AND MEMBER ORGANIZATION.

* Report on Exchange visits

* Different reports from Foundation-London

* AOB

* Closing of the meeting

 

1.0: Opening of the meeting:

The meeting was officially opened at 9.30 am by the Acting chairperson Mr. Steven Milambo.

 

2.0: Reading of minutes of the previous meeting held on 29th September 2007:

Following the introductory speech, the Secretary read minutes of the previous meeting of 27th September, 2007.

 

3.0 Matters Arising

* Child Beach Program preparation on process and finalizing budgeting and beach survey by the preparatory committee.

* The process of Opening the Network Account was reported to be well conducted .

 

4.0: Session 1. TOOL ON ORGANIZATION SELF ASSESMENT FOR AFCONET AND MEMBER ORGANIZATION (Prepared by NGO Resource Centre and TANGO)

The session was facilitated by the Network Coordinator Mr. Donatian Marusu and the following topics were covered: Assessment tool on leadership which has got 11 subsessions (The foundation of the CSO, Membership/Constituency,Governing Organ, Crosscutting issues, Sustainability). The tool is alike Tim Jacksons Organization Assessment tool hence it was some how easy for participants to follow. Toipc 2 was on Management and subtopics covered were: Organization structure, Org. Policies and procedures, management’s capabilities) The third topic 3. was on program planning and management – Strategic Planning this had the following subtopics: Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and Documentation of Lessons). Topic 4 was on The Human Resource, this covered the following subtopics: Human Respource, Volunteers, Human Resource Development and Human Resource Management. Topic 5 was on Financial Management, the subtopics covered were on Sources of Income, Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Reporting.

Topic 6 was on Infrastructure which included the following subtopics: Equipement and materials, Stock Control and Procurement. Topic 7 was on External Relations and covered the following subtopics: Society, Government, Donnors and Media. Topic 8 which was the last topic was on Building Coalitions, the subtopics covered were participation in Network activities and lobbying and advocacy.

It was beneficial to Network members because this topics after were clear to members, the facilitator requested that members should use the tool on the very day to Assess the Network, i.e using the Assessment Tool to Assess AFCONET. All members were given opportunity to do so in order that opinions will be collected from their free assessment of the Network and the Acting Chairperson assured participants that a compiled report about the assessment will be displayed in our website.

 

4.0: Exchange visits reports:

Seven Exchange Visit report forms were submitted even though the Exchange visit

Uzima visited Chimaba and leant how to empower out of school youth,

Sageta visited Redhouse and TWAFAHA, they learnt that despite the smaller office of TWAFAHA, they do a lot in serving the community. At Red house they also learnt that children can be empowered on various skills like leadership for them to stand on their own.

Vumwe no exchange visit this month.

CHAKUPAU no exchange visit this month

TUKOLENE no exchange visit this month

WOYONA visited CHAKUPAU,

TAWOSU no exchange visit this month

CHIYOWONET no exchange visit this month

TWAFAHA no exchange visit this month

RED HOUSE visited SIYOPE (leant about OVC Psychosocial care and support)

YLRF no exchange visit this month

WOLISU no exchange visit this month

IYANA no exchange visit this month

YOPAC no exchange visit this month

GOOD SAMARITAN no exchange visit done this month

SOCAC no exchange visit this month

MSWS visited CWCA and leant how to empower widows on legal rights. They also visited NICE where they leant on how to organize school programs on self reliance

POFIDESO no exchange visits done this month because they visited already 6 groups.

NB. The exchange visit spreadsheet has reached an end of its programming hence three exchange visit forms which have been submitted today couldn’t be recorded. The details of the forms are listed below:

* Exchange Visit No. 292 of 25/10/2007 WOYONA visited CHAKUPAU for 3 hours and Joyce Masami and Hadija Emidi from WOYONA did the visit

* Exchange Visit No.293 of 24/10/2007 MSWS visited CWCA for 3 hours and Samweli Kigeso and David Mussa from MSWS did the visit

* Exchange visit No.294 of 23/10.2007 MSWS visited NICE for 3:15. The following did the exchange visit Samweli Kigeso and David Mussa.

 

6.0: AOB

Feedback about Openning a New Bank Account to Baclays Bank was given by Jovita Makoko that at the Bank

an introductory letter from the WEO where the office is and a seal by an Advocate (In this case CWCA) will . It was suggested that the signatories should fill in the form from the WEO or CHIYOWONET to take charge to ensure that we get the letter. All other documents were reported to be ready submitted.

Meeting report about Beach Children program. It was reported that a total of Tshs 1,200,000 was estimated to be the budget of the beach program. Even tough the seal allocated fund for the beach program was reported to be Tshs.600,000.

The suggested Beach was mentioned to be COCO Beach, even though other beaches were suggested including MSASANI Beach and or MIKADI Beach at Kigamboni to avoid the highlighted risk of going to COCO Beach written as a concern below.

 

The committee suggested that every group can be given Tshs.20,000 for transport so that the 5 representative children from the member partners will be picked straight to the beach. The suggestion was put forward for further discussion and final decisions will be put in the next meeting.

In order to make the program lively, it was suggested to make the program child friendly program with for instance educational games and competitions.

 

Report from Tim Jackson.

Report from Tim Jackson was read and clarification was given by the coordinator Mr. Donatian Marusu.

As regards to the visits by Donatian to the different groups, Donatian promised to make a simple timetable which will be implement able and convenient group members too.

A list of groups to be visited and a draft Timetable was suggested as follows:

 

DRAFT TIME TABLE FOR THE COORDINATOR VISIT TO GROUPS - 2007

Date

TIME

Group

Kinondoni Route

4/11/2007

9:30am – 11:30am

IYANA

10:30am – 12:30

TAWOSU

1:00pm – 3:00pm

CHIMABA

3:30PM – 6:00pm

TUPENDANE

10/11/2007

9:30am – 11:30am

TWAFAHA

Ubungo Route

3:00pm – 5:00pm

RED HOUSE

6:00pm – 8:00pm

GOOD SAMARITAN

10/11/2007

9:00pm – 11:00am

MOMS IN TOUCH

Kariakoo Route

3:00pm – 5:00pm

YOPAC

6:00pm – 8:00pm

CHIYOWONET

11/11/2007

8:00am – 10:00am

CHAKUPAU

Temeke Route

10:30am -12:30pm

TUKOLENE

1:00pm – 3:00pm

SAGETA

3:30pm – 6:00pm

POVERTY FOGHTERS

17/11/2007

8:30pm – 10:30am

POFIDESO

Kawe Route

11:00am – 1:00pm

MSWS

2:00pm – 4:00pm

NICE

5:00pm – 7:30pm

WOYONA

18/11/2007

8:30am – 10:30

YLRF

Magomeni Route

11:30am – 1:30pm

VUMWE

3:00pm – 5:00pm

WOLISU

5:30pm – 6:00pm

PREVENTIVE

24/11/2007

8:00am – 10:00am

SIYOPE

10:30am – 12:30pm

CISO

3:00pm – 5:00pm

SOCAC

25/11/2007

9:30am – 11:30am

UPENDO GROUP

Mkuranga Route

2:30pm – 4:00pm

UZIMA CENTRE

As regards to those who would like to have special appointment with Mr. Tim Jackson in December 2007, the following requested to be listed;

* CHKUPAU, VUMWE, TUPENDANE, MSWS, POFIDESO and YLRF

 

FUTURE PLANS OF THE NETWORK

* It was suggested that we need to make as a special agenda in the next meeting to discuss more about the Network Sustainability. This followed a report that in two years to come it might be phasing out of the funding from London.

* Selfishness was warned to be the major threat of the Network.

CONCERN:

One participant raised the issue of security at the COCO Beach because it is the Beach where local people who cant afford going to the other expensive beach hence there is a risk to the children if they will be mixed with other children and peopleat the peach. It was a concern that we might fail to control the children.

Challenges:

* Children are scartered

* A common transport

* Risk of taking children to the Beach

* Security wise

7.0: The end:

The meeting was closed at 3:00 pm by the Chairperson.

The next meeting will be on 24th November, 2007.

 

Prepared by

 

Pascal J.Maziku

AFCONET

Secretary

 

REPORT OF THE 1OTH AFCONET MEETING

AT NATINAL LIBRARY CENTER

27TH OCTBER 2007

The meeting started around 9:30 a.m. preceded by registration and warm up tea. The meeting was chaired by deputy chairman, Steven Milambo

 

Attendance: by the start of the meeting there were 20 members but by the end the number increased to 27 of which 22 were the groups' representatives.

 

Debriefing of the past meeting:

The minutes of the past meeting were read by the secretary, Pascal Maziku and the concerns raised were clarified.

 

Exchange Visits:

1. Tupendane: represented by Rose Swai, did not visit any group in this month

2. Uzima: represented by V. Oganda, Visited Chimaba Sanaa Group and learned how they help youth for self-reliant initiatives

3. Sageta, represented by Jacob, Visited two groups: i) Twafaha and learned how they run a project on embroidery ii) Red house, and learned how they help to educate young children of different ages with an approach of child-to–child learning

4. Vumwe, represented by Mwanahamisi kivule, did not visit any group in this month

5. Chakupau, represented by Tunu Mponda and Jumanne Ngayama, did not visit any group in this month

6. Tukolene, represented by Peter Simon, did not visit any group in this month

7. Woyona, represented by Joyce Masami, visited Chakupau and learned how they help to care orphans by providing them with school materials

8. Tawosu, represented by Hadija Hemed, did not visit any group in this month

9. Moms in Touch, represented by Grace Nuru, did not visit any group in this month

10. Chiyowonet, represented by Emmy Kakwaya, did not visit any group in this month

11. Twafaha, represented by Halima Ibrahim, did not visit any group in this month

12. Red house, represented by Theobald Mtema, visited Siyope and learned how they assist children through counselling, also how they initiated project of renting a meeting hall.

13. YLRF, represented by Happiness Charles, did not visit any group in this month

14. Wolisu, represented by Ismail mahamudu, did not visit any group in this month

15. Iyana, represented by Simon King’ung’e, did not visit any group in this month

16. Yopac, represented by Stella Miti, did not visit any group in this month

17. Good Samaritan, represented by Winston, did not visit any group in this month

18. Socac, represented by Tabu Saadan, did not visit any group in this month

19. MSWS, represented by David Musa, visited two groups: i). CWCA and learned how they help widows and OVC on legal issues for free. ii) NICE and learned how they prepare seminars to equip children and youth with self employment strategies and also how to write good funding proposals

20. Pofideso, represented by Shaban Madega, did not visit any group in this month

21. Chimaba, represented by Azaria Mjengwa, did not visit any group in this month

22. NICE, represented by Chrispine Mwansanga, did not visit any group in this month.

 

Response to Network Operation report for October, 2007

 

* Site visits: during the meeting the members agreed that the visit be carried on week ends as suggested by Donatian and any possible convenient time. The following time was set and may be followed:

 

N0

Date

Route

Time/Group

Time/Group

Time/Group

Time/Group

1

3/11/2007

Kinondoni

8:00-10:00

Iyana

10:30-12:30

Tawosu

1:00-3:00

Chimaba

4:00-6:00

Tupendane

2

4/11/2007

Ubungo

9:30-11:30

Twafaha

3:00-5:00

Redhouse

6:00-8:00

Good Samaritan

3

10/11/2007

Ilala

9:00-11:00

Moms in Touch

12:00-2:00

CWCA

3:00-5:00

Yopac

6:00-8:00

Chiyowonet

4

11/11/2007

Temeke/Tandika

8:00-10:00

Chakupau

10:30-12:30

Tukolene

1:00-3:00

Sageta

4:00-6:00

Poverty FG

5

17/11/2007

Kawe

8:30-10:30

Pofideso

11:00-1:00

MSWS

2:00-4:00

NICE

5:30-7:30

Woyona

6

18/11/2007

Magomeni

8:00-10:00

YLRF

12:00-2:00

Vumwe

3:00-11:00

Wolisu

6:00-8:00

Preventive HCF

7

24/11/2007

Sinza/Bagamoyo

8:00-10:00

Siyope

10:30-12:30

CISO

3:00-5:00

SOCAC

8

25/11/2007

Kiwalani/Mukuranga

9:30-11:30

Upendo G.

2:30-4:30

Uzima C.

 

NB: emergencies can be accommodated if the group gives prior information. E.g. Iyana requested my Visit to be on 7th Nov. 2007 at 5:30 p.m. instead of 3/11/2007. I can arrange with them clearly and plan to visit them at the named time.

I hope to send this time table to the members for their reference after you approve it.

 

* Groups that would like to have meeting with Tim during his visit to Tanzania on December

1. Chakupau:

2. Vumwe:

3. Tupendane:

4. MSWS:

5. Pofideso: Subject: on the future of our Network

6. YLRF – subject: on Fund raising and Network sustainability

 

NB: other groups requested to deliver their subject after they consult other members in their group, hence I will send you ASAP when I get them.

 

 

* Opening Account at Barclays Bank, report from the treasurer says, most of the wanted documents have been presented to the bank and she expects to complete the process by next week.

Others:

* Children picnic: the committee is working on it and is expected to be done on November.

* We need to document picture events while writing monthly meeting reports or any network event

* Need to change caterer due to delay of lunch, services and menu incomplete e.g. in this meeting lunch was served at 3:45 p.m.

* Network constitution: every group needs to have a copy of original Constitution and a certificate of registration for ease reference

* The treasurer performed well her duty of paying the exchange visit costs

 

Comments:

The members were requested this time to be more cooperative during the site visits to make the exercise more successful

 

End:

The meeting ended around 4:45 p.m.

 

Prepared by:

Donatian Marusu

Coordinator

30/10/2007

Joan B. Kroc fraud follow-up

It turns out that the grant email we thought looked suspicious was definitely a fraud. We have just received the following email from the Executive Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice:

Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in contacting Scott Appleby and me.  I believe Scott is traveling, so I'm not sure if he will checking his email.

You are so correct that this is a scam, but I am very impressed with what you have found out about it.  There is no Joan Kroc Foundation -- when she died in October 2003,

she gave all of her money away.  The scam is a good one as most of the information is correct -- they clearly did a good google search on Mrs. Kroc!   I appreciate

your suggestion to put a notice on our website and we will do so this coming week -- I thought the letters had stopped (we had a flurry of letters several years ago, and then again in

August - September, but nothing for the past month until your email),  but clearly they have not. 

For all the organizations who need funding,  I wish this were true -- what a nasty scam this is.  Thank you again for checking

with us and I wish you all the best with your good work.  Perhaps we will meet someday.

With best wishes,

Joyce Neu

    Dr. Joyce Neu Executive Director Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice University of San Diego San Diego, CA 92110 tel: (619) 260-7567 email: jneu at sandiego dot edu http://peace.sandiego.edu

Fraud warning: Joan B. Kroc

One of our network groups has received an email claiming to be from the Joan B. Kroc Foundation, saying the group has been shortlisted for a grant of $550,000. This is odd, since the group never applied for any such grant. There is an organization in America called the Joan B Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. Unfortunately, we don't think this email is genuine. Here's why: 1. The address given in the email belongs to a supermarket in San Francisco called Mollie Stone's (see http://www.peasofmind.com/stores/stores.htm ) 2. The phone number given in the United Kingdom begins with +44 (0) 700. These numbers are personal numbers used only by individuals and not by organizations, and they are used to hide the real number you are calling. 3. The email gives no web site. The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego (endowed by the wife of the founder of McDonald's) does peace work in Uganda, and can be found at http://peace.sandiego.edu/, but it does not appear to have a wider program of grantmaking to African organizations. 4. The recipient of the email was asked to contact a gmail address, and the message he received came from hotmail. In America and Europe, large organizations rarely use these type of web addresses. A common pattern with Internet frauds is that organizations are told they are going to receive money, but are asked to advance some of their own money as an administration or facilitation fee. Once this is sent, the so-called grantmaker disappears. We are publishing this email so that other organizations do not risk becoming the victims of fraud. If you receive a similar email in future but are not sure whether it is genuine, you can check it by: 1. Doing a Google search on (a) the organization name (b) its address (c) its phone number. 2. If you find the organization using Google, contacting it directly via its web site to confirm that the offer is genuine. The full text of the email is below: From: ann brown <annbrown31@hotmail.com> To: Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:49:33 +0100 Subject: GRANT NOTIFICATION JOAN B. KROC FOUNDATION Registered in England & Wales (No. 2826074) 15 High Street, London, NW8 7NG (UK) United Kingdom ==================================== Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 7024-098595 Fax: +44 (0) 7005-942733 ==================================== Dear Sir/ Madam, We wish to inform you that the above foundation has short-listed you for the grant of US$550,000.00 for your humanitarian/organizational activities; this grant is in recognition of your programmes and activities. Mrs. Kroc, who died on October 12, 2003, at age 75, left $1.91 billion to 10 organizations. She was the widow of Ray A. Kroc, the founder of the McDonald's Corporation. Her gifts were: $1.5billion to the Salvation Army, in Alexandria, Va., to construct and endow up to 50 recreational and educational facilities across the United States and UK; $200 million to National Public Radio to support the network's operating reserves and endowment; $60-million to Ronald McDonald House Charities to be distributed to its programs worldwide; $50 million to the University of Notre Dame to support the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; $50-million to the University of San Diego to establish the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice; $20 million to San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care to support its programs and services; $10 million to the San Diego Opera to support artistic programming; $5 million to KPBS radio and television, in San Diego, to establish an endowment and operating reserve and create a capital-equipment fund; $5 million to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Diegoto build a high school; and $500,000 to Mama's Kitchen, a meal-delivery service in San Diego for people with AIDS. Before her death, Mrs. Kroc gave $5 million to the University of San Diego to endow a lecture series at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. You're therefore requested to contact Keith Gramham either by e-mail: joan.kroch1@gmail.com or Fax: +44 (0) 7005-942733 for details and procedure to obtain your grant. Sincerely, Ms Anne Brown UK Foundation Secretary. ==================================== JOAN B. KROC FOUNDATION USA Office (Head Office):- 2435 California Ave. Seattle Washington 98116 USA. Fax: +1 (413) 376-2751 ==================================== Explore the seven wonders of the world Learn more!

Expenses for August and September

Here are the latest batch of expenses from officers:

Donatian's expenses for August and September: Download donatians_expenses_augsep_07.xls

If you have any questions or concerns about any expense claims, please email Tim.

Ripoti ya shughuli za mtandao wa Dar kwa September, 2007.

Ripoti ya shughuli za mtandao wa Dar kwa September, 2007.

 

Wapendwa Wanamtandao,

 

Natumaini kuwa ninyi na familia zenu pamoja na watoto mnaowatunza mmekuwa na mwezi Septemba wenye furaha na afya tele. Tumekuwa na baadhi ya mambo muhimu mapya yaliyojitokeza katika mtandao wetu.

 

Mradi wa Maktaba

Steven Milambo amefanya mabadiliko kwenye rasimu ya Azimio la kuomba ruzuku baada ya kujadiliana nanyi katika mkutano wa mtandao na sisi huku London. Tunatarajia kushirikiana naye na shirika lake (YLRF) kuhakikisha kwamba Azimio hilo linafika kwa mashirika ambayo yanaweza kufadhili mradi huu. Kama mnavyokumbuka, moja kati ya vipingamizi vya kuwa na Maktaba moja kuu ni kwamba watoto wanaokaa mbali wanaweza wakapata ugumu wa kufika kwenye maktaba. Kama tutafanikiwa kupata ruzuku basi tutapanga kwamba kila kikundi ndani ya mtandao kipatiwe kiasi kidogo cha vitabu vya kiada. Hivyo vitabu vinaweza kutunzwa katika ofisi za vikundi vyetu ili watoto waweze kuvipata na kuvitumia.

 

Ili kufanikisha hili, hapa kuna baadhi ya masuala ambayo kila kikundi hakina budi kuzingatia:

* Kuamua ni saa zipi au siku zipi maktaba itafunguliwa

* Kuamua kama kikundi chenu kitaruhusu watoto kuadhima vitabu au la. Ni wazi kwamba kuadhimisha ni jambo mwafaka kwani watoto wanaweza kuvitumia wakiwa nyumbani, lakini hii itamaanisha kwamba watoto wachache tu ndio watanufaika na pia kutakuwa na tatizo la urudishwaji.

* Je, shirika lenu lina chumba chenye meza, viti na umeme kwa ajili ya muda wa usiku?

* Kufanya mpango wa kupata mtu mmoja kwa ajili ya usimamizi wakati watoto wanajisomea.

 

Tafadhali naomba kila mjumbe aliyeko katika mkutano huu arudipo nyumbani akashirikishe jambo hili kwa wanachama wenzake, na pia muendelee kujadiliana na Steven ili kuboresha zaidi.

 

Maelezo ya Benki

Kama mnavyojua, tumekuwa tukilizungumuzia kwa muda mrefu sana suala la kuchapisha maelezo ya akaunti ya benki ya mtandao kwenye tovuti yetu. Hii itasaidia kwamba kila kikundi ndani ya mtandao kiweze kuona kiasi cha fedha kilichotumika na kimetumika wapi. Habari njema ni kwamba, hatimaye hili limefanyika. Yovita amefanya mpango ili maelezo hayo yatumwe kwetu London na tumeshachapisha katika tovuti yetu. Kama utafanikiwa kuingia katika www.africancommunities.org utaweza kuona (zingatia kwamba namba ya akauti imefichwa ili kuondokana na hatari ya utapeli). Maelezo tuliyo nayo ni ya mpaka 25 Agosti na salio kwenye tarehe hiyo lilikuwa: 11,192,235/- TSHs. Tunatarajia kuwa Yovita atatuma maelezo kwa mwezi Septemba hapo tarehe 7 Octoba na kwa kila mwezi baada ya hapo.

 

Mrejesho kutokana na vipindi vya mafunzo

Kama mnavyojua, tumekuwa tukimwomba kila mmoja wenu kujaza fomu ya tathmini ya mafunzo yatolewayo katika mikutano ya kila mwezi. Lengo la mrejesho ni kuwasaidia viongozi, mimi na watoa mada kushughulika pamoja ili kutengeneza mafunzo mazuri zaidi kwa ajili yenu. Hapa kuna maelezo juu ya namna tunavyoshughulikia taarifa mnazotutumia.

 

Kila mwezi taarfia hukusanywa na Donatian na kuhesabiwa, na halafu hutumwa kwangu huku London. Mimi naiunganisha kwenye taarifa zingine zenye tathmini za watoa mada wote ili tuweze kulinganisha matokeo. Halafu naituma tarifa kwa Furaha na kwa mtoa mada, kwa sababu mara nyingi ina msaada zaidi kwa mtoa mada kujifunza kutokana na yale watu wanayosema juu yake.

 

Nadhani mngependa kujua kwamba, mpaka saa mwaka huu, mada ambayo inachukua nafasi ya juu kiujumla ni ya Lucas Haule iliyotolewa mwezi Machi juu ya Malezi. Mada yenye yaliyomo bora zaidi ni ya Utti Mwang'amba iliyotolewa mwezi Mei juu ya Wosia na Mirathi. Na kwenye ubora wa vitini mada inayoongoza ni ya Alex Mayunga iliyotolewa mwezi Februari juu ya Ushawishi na uhamasishaji katika utafutaji Rasilimali watu na Rasilimali vitu.

 

Mnapotoa maoni, husomwa na mimi na mtoa mada. Ni vema kusema niliipenda mada iliyowasilishwa. Lakini ni vizuri zaidi kama utaweza kusema ni namna gani inawezwa kuboreshwa zaidi. Tuko tayari kuyatumia maoni yenu na kuyafanyia kazi mapendekezo yenu.

 

Wakati unandika hayo maoni, unaweza kujenga taswira kama vile uko kwenye mazungumuzo na mtoa mada baada ya mkutano wakati mkipata kikombe cha chai. Fikiria kama vile unasema mada ilikuwa nzuri, na halafu mtoa mada anakuambia: "Tafadhli nipe ushauri wako. Ni namna gani ningeweza kuifanya mada iwe nzuri zaidi? Ushauri utakaompa ndio unaopaswa kuandika.

 

Kutuma wawakilishi zaidi ya mmoja kwenye mkutano wa mtandao

Inaonekana kama kumejitokeza kutokuelewana juu ya kutuma zaidi ya mwakilishi mmoja kwenye mkutano wa mtandao. Baadhi ya wanachama wanadhani kwamba tumechagua vikundi vichache na kuvipatia ruhusa maalumu ya kutuma mtu wa ziada kwenye mikutano. Hii siyo sahii isipokuwa kwa vikundi vyenye viongozi wa mtandao tu, kwa sababu wanakuwa na shughuli nyingi kwenye mkutano( mfano: kuchukua kumbukumbu, kufanya malipo, kuratibu mkutano) na hivyo kuhitaji watu wengine kuwakilisha vikundi vyao.

 

Kwa ujumla, mtazamo wetu huku London ni kwamba, tunatoa chakula na nafasi ya mkutano kwa vikundi vyote, itakuwa na maana zaidi kama kikundi kimoja kinaona kwamba hakitaweza kuhudhuria mkutano, tusingeacha nafasi hiyo iahwe wazi, na badala yake tutoe nafasi hii kwa kikundi kingine ili kiweze kutuma mwakilishi zaidi ya mmoja kama italazimu.

 

Kwa kawaida kikundi chenu kinapaswa kutuma mwakilishi mmoja tu. Kama mtu aliyetegemewa hatoweza kuhudhuria, basi mwanachama mwingine anapaswa aende na hao wawili wanapaswa kukutana mapema ili kwamba mtu anyekwenda mkutanoni awe na taarifa za kutosha inayotakiwa.

 

Iwe ni jambo la bahati mbaya sana tu kwamba inatokea kikundi kinashindwa kutuma mwakilishi yeyote yule. Lakini, kama hili linatarajiwa kujitokeza, basi toa taarifa kwa Pascal angalau siku mbili kabla ya kila mkutano ili tuweze kutoa nafasi hiyo kwa kikundi kingine badala ya kuiacha ipotee bure. Halafu Pascal atatuma ujumbe kwa vikundi vingine wazibe nafasi kwa kutuma mjumbe wa pili. Nafasi hii inapaswa kutolewa sawa kwa vikundi vyote, ili kwamba kwa mwaka mzima kila kikundi kiwe kimepata nafasi hiyo.

Tafadhali naomba mtujulishe kama hamukubaliani na mtindo huu au kama mna mapendekezo yoyote ya kuboresha.

 

Malipo ya Nauli ya daladala

Kumbukumbu za mkutano wa Agosti zilionyesha kwamba kulikuwa na majadiliano juu ya nauli ya daladala kama itarudishwa kadri ya kiasi kilicholipwa au kukaribishwa kwa shilingi 1,000 ya karibu. Tunaamini kwamba ni halali wanamtandao kurudishiwa gharama halisi alizotumia kwa nauli kwa sababu za kiuchumi (hivyo 2,000/- kama atasafiri kutoka mbali na 950/- kama atasafiri kutoka mahali ambapo bei ya nauli ni hiyo, na hata kwa mtu aliyekuja kwa gari la binafsi). Kwa kawaida ni kazi ya Mtunza hazina kuhakikisha kwamba ana chenji za kutosha ili kutoa malipo yaliyo sahihi. Kwenye mazingira ambayo hilo halitowezekana, basi tutafurahi kama wanachama watafikiana na mbadala utakaopangwa.

 

Pikniki ya watoto

Kama mnavyojua katika uzoefu wenu juu ya watoto walio katika mazingira hatarishi na Ukimwi Tanzania, baadhi ya mashirika na baadhi ya watoto wanapata msaada mwingi na walio wengi hawapati msaada kabisa. Sababu inayotufanya sisi huku London kusaidia mtandao wenu ni kwamba tulipenda kufanya kazi na mashirika ambayo ndio kwanza tu yanaanza kupata misaada ya kimataifa na kuwasaidia watoto ambao mpaka sasa wanaweza kuwa hawajapata msaada wowote ule.

 

Pikniki ya watoto ni wazo zuri na tunafurahi kuliunga mkono. Lakini tunaangalishwa uwezekano wa kuwepo tatizo ndani ya vikundi kama hamutakuwa na rasilimali ya kutosha kuwaalika watoto wote wanaosaidiwa na vikundi vyenu kwenye pikiniki. Hii itawafedhehesha watoto ambao hawakujumuishwa. Tunashauri kwamba mjadiliane jinsi ya kutafuta suluhu ya tatizo hilo na tutakuwa tayari kusaidia endapo mtatuma azimio kama Steven Milambo alivyofanya kwenye mradi wa maktaba. Lakini tutawaunga mkono endapo mtahitmisha kwamba haitawezekana kupata ufumbuzi wa tatizo hilo na kuamua kuachana na wazo la pikiniki ya watoto.

 

Hesabu za fedha

Tumeshapokea hesabu za fedha kutoka kwa Yovita za mpaka Agosti. Hatujazifanyia uchambuzi huku London (Kumradhi!), lakini tunatumaini tutachapisha kwenye tovuti yetu kwa kipindi cha takribani wiki moja kuanzia sasa.

 

Shughuli za Viongozi:

Tumetuma mhutasari wa taarifa ya shughuli za viongozi. Haitachapishwa sambamba na nakala ya ripoti hii, bali itabandikwa ukutani kwenye ukumbi wa mkutano ili kila mmoja wenu apate kuipitia.

 

Kutembeleana katika vikundi:

Wanamtandao wengi wamesema kwamba wanaona ziara za kwenye vikundi ni njia nzuri ya kukutana na watu kutoka katika vikundi vingine na kushirikishana mawazo na utaalamu. Kikundi chenu kitafaidika zaidi kwa kuwa mwanachama wa mtandao kama kitafanya bidii ya kutembelea vikundi vingine zaidi( na hasa kama watu tofauti kutoka katika kikundi chenu watakuwa ndio watembeleaji)

 

Taarifa tulizotumiwa zinaonyesha kwamba vikundi vifuatavyo vimefanya ziara chache zaidi chini ya tatu tangu mwezi Mei, na namba ya ziara ziliyoonyeshwa kila baada ya jina la kikundi:

Ciso: Community Initiative Support Org: 2

Good Samaritan foundation: 2

Iyana Education Trust: 2

Red House 2000: 1

Sageta: Youth and Children: 1

Sinza Youth Peer Educator: 1

Wolisu: Women life Support Network: 2

Woyona: Women youth Nature Action: 2

 

Ifuatayo ni orodha ya vikundi ambavyo havijatembelewa mara kwa mara tangu Mei 2007, pamoja na namaba ya vikundi vilivyowatembelea

Chakupau: 1

Iyana Educatio Trust: 1

NICE: National Youth information centre: 2

Red House 2000: 1

Tukolene Youth development Centre: 2

Tupendane Women Group: 2

Woyona: Women Youth Nature Action: 2

Yopac: Youth and Parents Crisis Counselling: 1

 

Tunapendekeza kwamba vikundi vyote vilivyoko kwenye orodha ya kwanza (waliofanya ziara chache chini ya tatu) wakubaliane kwenye mkutano wa mtandao wa Oktoba kutembelea kikundi kwenye orodha ya pili (waliotembelewa na vikundi vichache chini ya vitatu), na vile vilivyotembelea kikundi kimoja tu tangu Mei waadhimie kutembelea angalau vikundi viwili kwa mwezi Octoba. Tafadhali msitembelee kikundi ambacho mlishatembelea.

 

Wasiliana nasi:

Mwisho. Tafadhali mkumbuke kwamba daima mnakaribishwa kuwasiliana nasi au Donatian kama mna mawazo, mapendekezo, changamoto, matatizo, malalamiko au maswali. Tunafanya kazi pamoja kujenga mtandao huu, na ni jambo la kawaida kwamba makosa yatajitokeza, lakini nia yetu iwe ni kujifunza kutokana na makosa tunayofanya.

 

Kila la kheri,

Tim Jackson

Imetafsiriwa na

Donatian Marusu

28/09/2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

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