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Some neighbours have brought up the idea to try to establish a partnership with a safari tour provider to the Nile source to give tourists an incentive to donate a bednet for the village. The idea is to use the relatively new idea of a social enterprise, that is to say an enterprise that does reinvest its profit in social projects. Safari providers might have an interest in showing a "better" image by offering the possibility to do something "good" to their guests.

Discuss the possibilities of such a partnership. Research possible partners and write a letter of intent explaining the activities of the youths, Wakitaka´s partnership with Nabuur and the youths´ initiative to help their village to prevent Malaria that one could send to them.

Project: Wakitaka vilage
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MariaZ
write letter of intent
Sat, 2009/06/06 - 13:19

Dear neighbors,

Does anybody has the time to write a short letter? I am not a native speaker so I would prefer that a native speaker does it. We then could use this letter to contact different organisations.

Do you have any comments to the idea to try to work together with safari providers, or any other ideas?

Have a great week-end,
Maria

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Virginia Ellsworth
Re: write letter of intent
Sat, 2009/06/06 - 18:30

Maria - I will try to work on that this week. I am concerned that things have slowed down a bit - not with the animals and the farm, but the arts and crafts, which would also give the boys access to some of the tour companies there at the source of the nile. The last I knew, the table was only $50 per month. Someone was to look into getting a bicycle donated from an organization in Jinja to be able to bring their products in (also sent info how to build a trailer for a bike) AND someone was going to begin making a poster with "Save a Child's life for only $10" and things like that. I guess this project is on hold, which is a shame as it really should be a very prosperous one. The most activity I see going on is back and forth over the Logo - very important to be sure, but will not bring in any money.... Maybe we should slow down a bit..... I don't know how many youths are in the group - are all of them working? are the arts and crafts makers able to make a poster - or probably do one on canvas - safer from destruction. maybe you can find out. Can you let us know what is currently going on in the village? Thanks.

--
Ginger :)

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MariaZ
project
Sat, 2009/06/06 - 18:58

Hi Ginger,

Thanks for your concerns, that I entirely share. Did you see the project update in the project room I posted some days ago? That´s where the different projects are at the moment. The problem with the arts and crafts sell is that the stand at the Nile source costs 50$ a months, but they have to pay it at once for one year, which is not possible and also too risky. That´s why they are looking for new selling points that would be less expensive.
That´s actually why things are slower than expected - but I think it´s normal to have some backfalls... I am waiting for news on this from Emmanuel. I´ll let you know right then. Or Emmanuel - please also post any news directly at Nabuur.

The safari - bednet idea was pushed forward to find another source for the bednets since the arts and crafts sell is so difficult and apparently needs more time. It´s a task on which neighbours could work through contacting without that the youths have more work to do.

Since I did not have any news, we were just going on a bit with the logo, because things could be sorted out without direct involvement of Emmanuel. But I agree that the arts and crafts selling is the absolute priority as goats and chicken are going quite well.

Maria

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MariaZ
Re: project
Mon, 2009/06/08 - 16:51

Hi Ginger,

just a quick update - I talked to Emmanuel yesterday, and as he has written already, he was travelling for the last week. He is going to Wakitaka this week, so we might get some updates.
The internet connection has become a bit more difficult since Emmanuel is not anymore all the time in the university - but we´ll try to do our best!
For the arts and crafts - there are actually 6 youths involved, but others are waiting to get involved once a market found.

I talked again with Emmanuel about the Safari initiative, and we agreed that we should definitely try it to maybe secure some bednets for the village. It would be great if you could work on the letter, Ginger, I would really appreciate it. For your information, Wakitaka is about 8km from the Nile source, that´s maybe worth mentioning it.

all the best,
Maria

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Virginia Ellsworth
Re: project
Thu, 2009/06/18 - 18:21

Maria - here is the rough letter I wrote yesterday - let me know what you think - and also this is for the safaris themselves - not the organizations - I'd have to read more about them when I find them again!!

Dear Sirs/Madam:
As people become more conscious of the plight of the Ugandan people – as well as their gorilla counterparts! we would like to make a business suggestion that would set your touring company apart from others. We hope that you will join hands with the Wakitaka Youth Development Program, located very near to Jinja.
The Youth Development Program wishes to be able to give back to their community by raising money for malaria nets. As you probably know, 3,000 children die of malaria each day for the simple lack of a $10 malaria net. This fact, when learned by Westerners is just shocking, and I guarantee they will wish to help. You, as the tour group providing such information and introducing your tour groups to the Youths in Jinja, will be looked upon quite favorably.
You might also wish to use in your advertisements that you support the WYDP and, for each passenger you will donate a mosquito net to save the life of a child. This concern for your community will put you head and shoulders above the other touring companies – certainly in the eyes of the foreigners. We will provide you with a brochure to let the tourists see where their money is going, and I look forward to having one of the Wakitaka youth leaders get in touch with you at your convenience.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Cordially yours,
Maria Z
Project Facilitator

--
Ginger :)

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MariaZ
Re: project
Thu, 2009/06/18 - 18:30

Hi Ginger,

Thanks a lot, this is a fabulous letter and I hope touring operators will feel touched by it. I will start to send it out to the contacts I found (they are in the shared document beneath this task). I´ll only add besides the gorillas a reference to the Nile source, where most operators offer water rafting; as well as a link to Nabuur.
Hope we´ll hear back from some of them ....

Any more ideas and comments neighbours?

best,
Maria

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Virginia Ellsworth
Re: project
Thu, 2009/06/18 - 18:39

Glad you liked it! - what do you think of the banner - and is it something they can hold up at the river Nile - I am very happy they can try it out for $30 for one month - I hope the vendor didn't ask for a full year - f so - move on-

--
Ginger :)

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Emmanuel
Re: project
Thu, 2009/06/18 - 18:43

Hi Ginger,

Thanks for the big work done towards composing the letter of intent. It's really nice.

Regards,
Emmanuel

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MariaZ
bednet project
Thu, 2009/06/18 - 19:05

Hi again,

That was exactly the idea to have the youths collecting money besides selling their arts and crafts work. The safari idea is just a second stream to get the bednets donated.
I talked to Emmanuel yesterday, and according to Richard, the 30 euros are per month, and no year long commitment. Emma, when do you think they could start? Would it be possible for them to have a box, and a banner or at least a bigger advert stating what Ginger mentioned? It would be so great to start this finally off, I am sure they could make a decent income from the selling.

Ginger, no we do not have a website yet, that´s one of the next projects as well as the brochure. But I feel that for the moment everybody is quite busy... Anyway these two projects were submitted as worldschool project as well. So let´s see if we hear back from them.

Maria

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Virginia Ellsworth
Re: project
Thu, 2009/06/18 - 18:37

You know - I also have a visual of the youth walking in the streets - near the market, or wherever tourists hang out - with a banner: 2 kids holding it up on either end, and someone in the middle taking donations. "SAVE A CHILD'S LIFE FOR ONLY $10 USD"; then their logo, and then the copy beneath (I think it is )" 3,000 children die in Uganda each day from malaria, because they don't have a $10 mosquito net. Please help the Wakitaka Youth Development Group in their efforts to stamp out this unnecessary statistic" Thank you amnd may God Bless.

and, you know - if we get an interested safari group - and we Can parade around town, it will be very good to have a pamphlet - even a one page, that tells people who we are, what we do, and points them to our website (oops! do we have one yet?) Cool - here we go - I think this will be successful!

--
Ginger :)

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Virginia Ellsworth
Re: Discuss social enterprise safari partnership and write letter of intent
Sun, 2010/01/03 - 08:18

Maria - what ever happened with this project - I remember I wrote the letter - you sent it out - I don't know to how many and you never heard anything back. Did you try again? Did you have someone call them - you could on Skype for very little. This apparently stalled out.....

--
Ginger :)

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MariaZ
Re: Discuss social enterprise safari partnership and write letter of intent
Sun, 2010/01/03 - 09:57

I wrote to about 10 Safari organisations several months ago - no answer at all. I actually think that somebody has to go to see them face to face. They want to make business, and I doubt now a bit after having received no response that an email will convionce them. Does somebody has any idea on how to approach them in a better way?

Thanks,
Maria

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Virginia Ellsworth
Re: Discuss social enterprise safari partnership and write letter of intent
Sun, 2010/01/03 - 10:18

I think that it would have to be Emanuel since he is the most educated in his village - and if the brochures have been printed he need take them with him - if nothing else, perhaps the tour drivers will give one to each passenger!

--
Ginger :)

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MariaZ
Re: Discuss social enterprise safari partnership and write letter of intent
Fri, 2010/01/08 - 16:21

HI Ginger,

I completely agree with your suggestion to directly contact face to face safari tour providers and hotels/hostels in Jinja. I briefly talked about this with Emmanuel, but time run out then. Will try to catch up on this again.

In the meantime, it would be good if some neighbors could search the internet for safari tour providers, hostels and other tourist hubs in Jinja ( so far I did a general search for Uganda, but think that Jinja would be more effective) and around the Nile Source, so that Emmanuel, Richard or another youth could find them more easily. Any volunteer? Please add them at the Wiki, we started some time ago here http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/wakitaka/project/wiki/shared-document-l...

Thanks,
Maria

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