I would like to thank Vasco for his observation on the submissions by the President of the WNF. I like the idea of raising funds among us to start with but lets “hurry slowly”…
He did ask about the deliberations by the Education Task Force. I accepted to chair this TF and I am grateful to the members who volunteered in this great task. Those who were on the forum early last year will bear with me that the discussion on the situation of education in West Nile kept us united, committed and people got concerned. We got some difficulties in the TF which could not be resolved single handedly by me. We needed a TOR (Terms of Reference) drawn by a lawyer to help see from where our mandate etc was coming from. This TF was given a 3 month period to carry out a baseline survey from which future plans of action could be worked upon. Many other members asked for the TOR to be worked upon. Recently another member requested that. Can we resolve on this issue once for all: who is going to prepare this TOR and for when? When a member wanted that we air our findings on the FMs in Arua, I raised the problem of who we are so as to have clear status (on the net and on the ground). As a TF worked on the research proposal for the survey and we were ready to contact some organizations to fund the baseline survey. But we could not have a bank account onto which money could be sent since we did not have a constitution. I did not want such money to be sent to a personal account. Some three westnilers pledged to give money for opening the account (Hon Margaret Angufiro honored her pledge and we thank her, and she gave 200,000 ugx and two others have not yet honored their pledge totaling to 200,000 ugx). This amount is there with the chairperson of the education committee (Ambassador Harold Acemah). Should the TF have gone head doing the research without money? Not even the Vatican Bank runs on “Hail Marys”. In a meeting, which Counsel Caleb Alaka attended too, we were given 3 months of operation. The necessary means to do this was not there. We accepted what Yumbe district did (by one of our members and Yumbe district financed the whole research at 11M and in 2 months and half it was ready). We believed that this was to be extrapolated to other districts of WN since the situation was more or less the same. Our TF members attended the dissemination to all stakeholders in Yumbe and we later agreed to share their report. Our research was cover all sectors of education running from nursery to Higher Institutions. I would like to ask the WNF to draw the TORs before February 2010, then we can look into the issue of membership fees, then we can prioritize our topics so that WN really goes a step further developmentwise. I send God’s blessings on the work of WNF. Ruffino
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