Hello again friends,

I think this is a great task that focuses on what Nabuur foundation can do to support the set up and implementation of kyarumba girl’s education fund.

Nabuur foundation is a home to the kyarumba girls and has done a lot of education to you friends that there are girls out there who need your support. Indeed you answered their plea and helped in putting together the project since June 2005, Indeed we see a great future for our girls, Thank you Nabuur for making us known to the world :-)

But as we graduate from making our issue visible to looking for a concrete solutions - setting up offline systems for helping the girls get to school. We feel Nabuur can provide more help.

Dear Friends, what do you think Nabuur should do to grow this baby girl it delivered and has given exposure to this world?

Any idea!!! Please write :-)

Thanks
Jessica

Dear Friends,
While we worked together we developed great projects

- The NetAid proposal
- The community education on girl child education
- The proposal to establish a demonstration school
- and the proposal and website for girls education fund.

What is required now is identifying possible organisations/partners to fund them?

Finalising the website for Kyarumba and also opening up an online account for kyarumba to begin accessing online donation.

I would like to suggest that Nabuur works with us to identify possible organisations/partners that can support our fundraising efforts

What do you think?

Jessica

Dear Jessica,

I see your list of things that you have developed with your neighbours. Do you have these ideas/ proposals in documents? If you do, can you add them as a resource to this Task and e-mail them to me.

Secondly, these are great results! have you posted them in the results page? If not, let me know, then I can do it for you!

Hello Claudia,

Thanks for your comments

Yes we have these documents in proposal form I will email them to you.

Regarding results achieved, I think they are mentioned in the results section. We will have to load them under resources for the village

Cheers

Jessica

HI Jessica,

I checked the results page, but the documents are not listed. can you do that as soon as possible?

They also have to be added as a resource to this Task. I can do that for you if you e-mail me the docs.

Claudia V.

Dear Claudia,

Greetings and thanks for the village work. I am sorry for not responding in time, I was away in Kyarumba with no internet connection.

I will email you the documents so you can upload them for us

Thanks

Jessica

Dear Jessica and Claudia V and all

I was substantially involved here with Jessica in 2005, later it passed to other hands.

May I review the history so as to help us find a way forward.

Jessica's initial focus was for a project to shift community opinion - funding for this was sought from NetAid who had put out a bid for education projects in Uganda. I think NetAid was looking for something more conventional and for an organisation already involved in schooling.

I attach the document submitted to NetAid. The discussions themselves, in drafting that submission, were wonderful bonding for the team supporting Jessica then.

We were all a bit let down at not winning the lottery!! And all committed to the task.

In December 2005 I contributed the domain name and hosting for two years of www.kyarumba.org and proceeded to set up basic framework for it as a basis of presenting the community and its projects to the world. This was perhaps the first such site at Nabuur.

I was away from Nabuur for health reasons several times in 2006 and the site and the overall objectives moved on in other hands. The development of the scholarship scheme became a central focus and a revolving issue in discussion became, as elsewhere at Nabuur, how to get funds to Uganda.

One approach to that which I floated then was as at:

http://aplaceof.info/worldneighbourlink/

Jessica now seems to have had, or be close to having, a different and very specific support regime in place, with Bwimaniro Women's support groups in other countries. This would be very successful if realised.

Regarding what Nabuur can do as an organisation, it seems to me important that Nabuur develop a capacity to facilitate 'start-up' funding for projects demonstrating good community basis and capacity for self-sustaining funding later, rather than a need for continued subsidy. It has become increasingly clear to me that we are not able, any of us at nabuur, easily to build scholarship schemes which in their nature demand long term financial commitments and substantial administration. Jessica, working for Christian Children's Fund, will have more immediate advice... Jessica, has support been sought from CCF? Are there lessons to be learned from CCF?

The idea of a campaign to shift people's minds, as initially planned, had great merit in that it would, if successful, enable real results locally, rather than be a welfare scheme with uncertain impact in a hostile environment.

I recently drew to Jessica's attention this report:

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s2051856.htm

Note this discussion about Uganda:

I am wondering to what extent Jessica's project can attach to local political and women's movement actions? In asking, I realise that Kyarumba is far from Kampala and attitudes to the central government and Kampala are not simple.

We need to review the future of the web site as projection of strategy. I have been in email discussion with Jessica about this. We are both keen to continue, I am happy to meet costs of hosting, etc. But the key question is PURPOSE. What is the strategic objective? What can Claudia say to help us forward, what can Nabuur itself contribute.

best wishes

Dennis

0508NetAidsubmission.pdf

Dear Dennis,

Greetings and nice to see you back in discussion here. thanks for sharing the history and the great memories when the dream of nabuur was demonstrated by Kyarumba neighbors when we committed our selves as a team to work on the NetAid proposal and submission. I think I will link up with you at some point to document that experience so we can place it under our results section.

Back to the points raised especially on what project can work best for kyarumba and how? Whether the sponsorship programme is a good approach to go for or not,

I would like to update you that the stage we have reached is a point where we would like to raise funds for the different components for the Kyarumba Girl Education project and we are suggesting different approaches to address each.

For the scholarship Fund- this Fund like you mentioned needs a lot of administration and marketing and issues of sustainability have been discussed before. In the first place the Fund must be sustainable to continue supporting the identified vulnerable child. we have suggested at some point that we would pool all the money realized from individual donations so we can be able to establish a business enterprise from which funds would sustainabily be realized and gradually reduce external support to support schoolarships.

We have also agreed on another strategy where the livelihood project can be established for the girl parents to be able to improve their income for them to be able to send their daughters to school.

The second component of the kyarumba Girls Education Fund project is on raising Funds to conduct community education campaigns to change community attitudes towards education. As you already know we have proposals already developed together with neighbors on this component

While you were away, we also developed another project for a demonstration school where improved methods of instruction would be adopted and replicated to other primary schools within the subcounty to improve performance rate.

Now the challenge we are trying to address is looking for funding to implement all great ideas/projects developed since June 2005. That's why we are calling upon Nabuur to help submit some of these proposals to potential donors given the fact that most donors would like to listen to an intermediary organisation like Nabuur with an international outlook and also with a recognized legal status.

We agreed that for us to attract either foundation or individual fundraising we needed a presence in any of the western countries and some members are looking at possibilities of establishing BWC branches where funding/donations to BWC Uganda can be channeled and administered.

Briefly that is what I can share with you dennis

Thanks
Jessica

thank you Jessica

That clarifies many things for me... and in particular it clarifies the question you are putting to Nabuur. So I will step back from discussing details - some of which are VERY interesting - and await Claudia's response to your big question!

best wishes

Dennis

Dear Dennis,

Thanks a lot for your response we will wait for Claudia to respond to our question, we already have names of two organisations ( Edukans and Hivos) where Nabuur can submit some of the proposals.

Dennis, I would like to thank you for accepting to pay for our site www.kyarumba.org, This is good news to hear.

About what nabuur can contribute to our site, do you have suggestions, we have failed our selves to open up an online account with either money bookers or other online facilities because of eligibility issues. Can nabuur do some thing about this?

Many of my neighbors who are sitting back to see what nabuur can offer had suggested intervention. Nabuur needs to appreciate their effort and limitations and respond to out standing issues here. I think this will motivate them back into the forum.

Nice day
Jessica

Perhaps raise this also in the monitor village discussion, Jessica?

best wishes

Dennis

Hi Jessica and Dennis,

the big question you raise if Nabuur can submit proposals for funding with organisations in the Netherlands. I'm sorry to say the answer is no. We can't do this because it will mean several things:
- we will have to do the administration of the project and give reports on it;
- it will mean that all Nabuur Villages would want the same thing and we can't do this for 140 Villages.

I hope this answers your question.
I don't know the exact policies of the Dutch funding organsiations is but maybe a Dutch Neighbour of Kyarumba can help with the funding proposal or maybe you can submit the proposal without a Dutch organisation.

Claudia V.

Hi Claudia,

we still have room for negotiation and also depending on nabuur's new direction.

Kyarumba is not among the 140, its among the 20 pioneer communities nabuur is putting an eye to testing what needs to improve to bring more results.

We have a very interesting task I think the first of it's kind on nabuur focusing on what you( nabuur) can do to bring more results to the village. it might be very important to give it more attention.

Kyarumba has graduated to alevel where we need nabuur's Intervention with very unique tasks, It has been a long process to get to this level. Dennis my very first neighbor and now back to the village will confirm what we have gone through.

We need to discuss the limitations and how they can be mitigated and also come up with options with your (nabuur)support.

Thanks
Jessica

Dear Claudia and Jessica

Beware of Jessica, Claudia, she will fight and never let go!!! :-)

The prospective issue is not so much a matter of Nabuur being some kind of agent with donor agents in the Netherlands, it is , as Jessica suggests, a question of future ways of enabling local communities to access funds. I see all over Nabuur these days the idea that neighbours can seek funds, which was also against the wise rules in 2005... the question is not abandonent of respnsiblity by local communities, it is really whether, if the local communities can meet some benchmark of general wisdom in constructing realisable plans reflecting local capacity and looking towards self-sufficiency, there can be a better process than now for getting consideration by large donor organisations. Nabuur presents itself as being prestigious, Clintonm etc... how about some of that 'weight' being applied to getting some kind of tunnel for lcoal communities to get sensible consideration, rather than the futile and repetitious efforts of Nabuur villages nw, which is killing Nabuur.

The board adopted this recommendation in August:

Full document attached.

Unless that happens, the road ends....

best wishes

Dennis

071007nabuur2010publicdomain.pdf

Hi Dennis,

We will wait to hear from Claudia

Best wishes

Jessica