Hallo everyone,

I have uploaded our working document on the finalisation of content for the web-pages under Resources (above) with Marianne´s latest contributions (I left her questions in yellow). Please refer to this document and make all your suggestions – when you work on it just save it in your posting and I will be uploading the latest versions as we proceed.

Marianne is working on the part of Girl Education, so just let me know which part you would like to review.

Take care,
Eleftheria

Hi everyone,

Sorry I've been away for a few days - but I haven't disappeared altogether, I promise! It's great to see so much progress being made.

Hopefully Jeff will be able to advise on how best to upload the photos? But Jessica please don't worry - there's no real urgency as we can easily work on the content without the photos for the moment.

If it's easier, maybe upload them to a computer's hard disk and email them through to one of us rather than uploading them to the site - it may be quicker on a dialup. Also, is there any photo software on the computers you have access to? It may help to reduce the size of the files.

I've just taken on a big project at work so will be here less over the next few weeks, but I'll try to work on some of the content when I have free moments.

I'll work on the BWC page if no one has claimed it already?

With best wishes,

Clare

Hi Clare,

the BWC is fine, no one is working on it now - thanks for taking this up and good luck with your project. : )

Take care,
Eleftheria

Hello Neighbors,

Thanks for your contributions here and for taking up initiative to work on web pages.
Let me Respond to a number of questions directed to me of recent.

About photos for female role models, I had not thought about this before when I sent for the girl’s photos but I will ensure we get photos from Naume and some of the 11 women. Naume is accessible and currently supporting our project. She is one of the fund’s trustees…

The role model theme sounds great it blends well with the Nyabibuya/Kinderkaminata/ story telling idea we developed months ago. We can have a section on the web titled “Encouraging voices of Kyarumba role models” I don’t know what members think.

About PROGIE: PROGIE is the mother of our girl’s education programme composed of different projects like the KGEF, social attitude project etc. So you are right Marianne we need to have a text that details what it is. We had tried to define it on the old site. We will need to revisit it and improve on it.

More in the next post

Thanks
Jessica

Dear Dennis,
Thanks for extending your web page design skills to Acoke and Kiliba congratulations for the work done so far.

Commenting on your mixed feelings about whether the sponsorship we are suggesting here will work or not. And your desire to hear from the trustees themselves. Dennis with your support this will work, You have the history since we launched the site on Nabuur, you have moved along with us read all contributions and participated in decision making and prioritization. I don’t want to go into the details how we came up to prioritise sponsorships but I remember it was a consensus, that among the three projects, Scholarships, support to schools- Mutanywana and Kyarumba, social change, we prioritized to begin with scholarships to help stimulate the community and thereafter begin the social change campaign. After agreeing on the priority, we were blessed with your wonderful idea of web design to help put all information together and thereafter have the scholarships launched. Marrianne, Clare V, I think you are my witnesses on this.

Dennis We are not copying the big organizations you mentioned but remember they started small like us. They have invested thousands of dollars to market and solicit for sponsorships they have offices in different countries where sponsors are recruited and can drop their 5, 10, 20 dollars to their offices without worrying about the transfer costs to a project supported in the developing country. They have employed full time staff and volunteers to market and manage sponsorships. We are a community-based organization we can’t copy the big giants model of sponsorship.

The way to proceed is to put our heads together as neighbors and discuss and suggest the most appropriate way of soliciting for donations as a community based organization without branches in the west for our girls’ education.

For example should we first concentrate on building the Fund before we recruit the girls for sponsorship. e.g identifying an income generating opportunity and ensure donations solicited are put to building it, and when it begins generating money sustainably we can then confidently begin sponsoring girls.....

What category of people/ sponsors should we target for a beginning, organized groups of people in schools, churches, social groups.
If sponsors pick girls for sponsorship should these donations go direct to the child or pool them and distribute accordingly, pool and establish a business/ profit making investment that will continue servicing the Fund. We need to develop something that will be sustainable.

The legal implications - Lets discuss whether we need to fulfill any legal obligations in the countries where we plan to solicit for donations.

How and who collects the donations in these countries and sends them to the BWAs
Which appropriate method should be used? Lets streamline these issues as we improve on the content.

Thanks
Jessica

Hallo Jessica,

Thank you for your valuable contributions.

For the ones of us not here since the beginning of the project, it is improtant to know that we need to focus on the Kyarumba Girls Education Fund until it is up and running and only then move and discuss other projects.

The Fund itself, as you mentioned, has a lot of frontiers open at present, such as:
- All financial issues and legal implications
- All work needing to be done on the content
- Deciding if the Fund will be operational before the girls are selected
- Deciding if donations go directly to the girls or if they will gathered intially to create a solid basis of recources

Please feel free to comment on any of the above issues, I would kindly ask you however that we all try not to lose focus: please post your contributions on any economical issues under the respective posting and please don´t forget how improtant the work on the content document is - as long as the content is not ready, the info on Kyrumba is not accessible via the web-site.

Thanks,
Eleftheria

Hello jesica en Eleftheria
Thanks so much for your contribution.

One thing we need to know is: Is there any particular shools the girls are going to or they can go to any school. so there we shall decide on how the money shall be paid.

About the that needs to be done, we need to be specific on this. Do we have an office any proffessionals that needed to employed. so let try to specify on the work that is to be done
Thanks
Jeff

Hallo dear Geoffrey,

great to see you back.

The questions you ask are to be answered from Jessica, but as far as I can imagine, I don´t think that any professionals are to be employed, at least at this stage.

At the very moment, as I tried to clarify in a previous message, the very specific work to be done, is to work on the content in the document to be found under Resources, so that it can be presented to the web-site. Clare and Marianne have already taken a piece to work on, would you like to pick up another piece and contribute to this as well too?

Thanks!
Eleftheria

PS Do you have something to recomment to Jessica for uploading photos to the web? She said she has not been able, due to slow connections.

WOMENSMEDIACENTER
...to add to KAYRUMBA.ORG 's WEBSITE...
gotta run...

Pax,
AzaMa

Thank you for all your message Jessica.

:-)

May I in turn clarify my thoughts.

My reference to the large sponsorship schemes of the BINGOs [big international NGOs] was not to suggest that we copy them, but to note that they are very tough competition for us.

I have indicated that I remain in support of this village... as to the kyarumba.org web site, Clare is working on that and I hope text and photos are up soon. As you know, my concern is for the person working on the web pages to have maximum freedom in that process. I think things have been bogged down here when there has been a lot of detailed preoccupation with design details.

I am not, personally - having had a minor stroke - in a position to begin building any organisation here for fundraising. And I am not sure any others among us are, either, in their places - though it is for them to say. Thus it becomes a matter of how to attract direct payments to your own trust account in Uganda. It is in any case always a key factor in attracting any support that we as soon as possible identify as clearly as possible all the people and documents and details of such trust.

I am not arguing about there having been a decision at some time about giving the scholarship scheme precedence... it is not my business, not the business of any of us here, in any case, to set any priorities... that is entirely for the BWC.

I have however pointed out the difference between two different classes of financial contribution:
A: - essentially one time contribution to seed a project, to start a movement, etc.. .to get something going
B: - repeated contribution - essentially a charitable subsidy - on an on-going basis.

I have in that context said that:
1: A is much easier to consider getting support for A than B
2: B would perhaps be easier if there were some A .. people might be more attracted to charitable contribution over time if presented also with news of local actions.

So I am not arguing that the process of getting to this point is not what it is. I am offering in good faith my views of why this is a rocky path. I think I would be negligent not to do that.

sincerely

Dennis

Hallo Dennis,

Could you please write a few things on what would required to build an organisation for fundraising?

If I may comment your message to Jessica, first of all thank you for sharing your concerns. I think we need to be aware of the diffictulties on the way but even though it is a rocky way, if we work together we will find the solutions. Regarding to the web-site, in order to developing a good web-design comments on detail can also be constructive but in any way Clare has had the space required to develop what she has and we are now ready to upload photos and text.

Have a nice week-end,
Eleftheria

Dear all,

just wanted to le you know that I will be away for a couple of days and will be back on-line on Tuesday.

Keep posting :-)
Eleftheria

Dear Jessica and Eleftheria,

Attached are some changes I've made to the Girl Education page (4). Minor changes at this point, more to come soon including the 'girl education is a paying investment' and 'Uganda's school system' sections... please be aware that I also used some of the text from the previous section (3, Our land, the district of Kyarumba) because I felt it included pertinent information about education that belongs on the Girl Education webpage. Let me know if you had something else in mind...

I saved this doc as 'Webpages for Kyarumba 3', since this is the third set of revisions made to the document originally begun by Eleftheria. But since several of us may be working on it, I think we should use a different system. e.g. perhaps I should title mine "Girl Education webpage", while Clare can call hers "BWC webpage", or something along those lines. What do you think?

FYI: I've changed my comments/edits from orange font to purple (hopefully this is a less obnoxious color! The orange text was starting to mess with my eyes) :-o

A question before I proceed with the next sections. On the Girl Education webpage on the Kyarumba.org website, there's a section towards the bottom called "the role of the BWC". Am I to assume this will be absorbed into the page that Clare is currently working on?

J, E and all neighbors: Please look over the changes I've made when you get the opportunity and let me know if this is what you had in mind or if you have a different vision. I've always learned that online content needs to be "chunked" so that it includes concise, to-the-point information in small, manageable chunks. If you feel I've made it too concise, or left out something important, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Once I hear from you, I'll continue with the rest of the content. Thanks.

See you again soon,
Marianne

Webpages for Kyarumba 3.doc

Dear Marianne,

I need to ask you to e-mail me the document once more... Thank you for going through the trouble...

As far as the numbering and versions of the documents, I suggest that you just save the parts you are working under the respective names. I will be incorporating your parts (and the parts of others) into the central document and when I upload it I will be saving it as Version 2, Version 3 etc.

The role of the BWC in the school pages belongs indeed to another point (I had changed its place in the central document already - I think under the BWC).

Take care and thanks for the work done so far!

Best wishes,
Eleftheria

Hello Eleftheria,

I have gone though the document and I do appreciate the work done on it. I have made some few comments in the attached

Thanks
Jessica

Comments on text.doc