Dear members, I dont not want to comment on other things because am always very critical but just to remind members not to worry about the Science cafe attendance in Kampala because the kampala group members have access to information via various media and can help themselves with it. But there are others who do not have and they attend cafe in big numbers and that is the group Science targets. The Saturday we had few members in Kampala, before that we had registered 120 attendance in St. john's church in Entebbe discussing yellow fever, and the following Wednesday, we registered 50 in women's Odu na prayer group and another group of women predominalty Baganda and 80 in number in Entebbe have also approached Science cafe for the same and next Saturday we shall be there. The world is grandually catcing up on the website so we have no cause to worry. Also to note that our regular members in Kampala are mostly the old students of Ombahci who travelled that weeked for their function in Arua. And you could expect the MPs to behave like that given that they had just taken your votes. Therefore just because some of the Kampala people or others elsewhere do not want to be part of this and would wish to concentrate on what somebody said "PhD" strategy will not scare us. Those who do not want to be part of good initiatives should be left to do what pleases them according to my view.
Not everybody needs to be on board for things to move, we need just a few dedicated people, others will always jump later or never and that is the principle of Science cafe whose target is the rural poor with limited access to information for their empoerement. What I see as the biggest disease in West Nile is the use of "I,I,I,I,I,I,I" we do not want to use "WE" and therefore lack team spirit. And we use all our energy fighting to be "I" and "pulling" people down.We forget that today you can pull down somebody, but tomorrow somebody can also pull you down when you want to do something. If we used our energy for better things, we would be very far. Back to you members. Christine On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:42 AM, aggrey adrale <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Caleb, > > Calm down and tone down! > > The issues you have expressed on the various opinions and sentiments of > 'members' of the West Nile Foundation/Forum can still be resolved in one way > or the other. True to the sense we are averse to big gatherings beyond our > micro-social barriers. How I wish we could turn up to calls for meetings > like we turn up for meat-eatings. > > Anyhow these and other sentiments are the complexities of a diverse > society. > > My Brother Caleb, kindly do not throw in the towel...it may be the worst > thing to do. I think there are still people out there, including you and me, > who can take one more stride. Perhaps we need a third person to fulfill > God's quorum of three...and He will be in the midst. > > Just make the third-last call for an open meeting to re-present, discuss > and adopt the documentary instruments and prospective projects of the > proposed West Nile Foundation. Circulate that call on the net and let > 'members' confirm their attendance on line. Even if 10 persons gather, let's > find room to formally adopt these instruments by physically appending our > signatures to them and we move on. > > Over to you my Brother... > > Aggrey Adrale > > --- On Wed, 6/4/11, alaka caleb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: alaka caleb <[email protected]> > > Subject: [WestNileNet] Conspirancy of silence > > To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, 6 April, 2011, 9:18 > > Dear members, > > > > Some time last year, we tried to build a consensus on > > payment of > > subscription fees of 50,000/= Uganda Shillings for West > > Nile > > Foundation. This idea was vehemently opposed by several > > members. Some > > even pretended that they had never seen the strategic plan, > > the > > memorandum and articles of association of WNF. Other > > members suggested > > that we should go slow on issues of money. As a result > > to-date we have > > no secretariat to co-ordinate our activities. We can't > > implement or > > move any thing. Members what do we do?. Should we all > > abandon this > > idea of having an umbrella organization. We have resisted > > all good > > ideas, from West Nile night, the Investment Club, and even > > the Science > > Cafe which records miserable attendances. We are > > comfortable and we > > actively involve our selves in smaller or sectarian > > organizations, > > when it comes to the bigger picture we sit back and savor > > the idea of > > our leaders failing. We have forgotten that Kigs uses money > > to host > > the West Nile net. He and Gordon Obitre-Gama had to import > > a server > > from USA to host the net. We have taken advantage of their > > magnanimity > > and abused it. What if they one time get fed up. By now we > > should have > > had our own website. I think the idea of a West Nile > > Foundation and > > the West Nile Net or forum should be discarded. Some of us > > were useful > > to our community without these organizations, We can > > still be useful > > without them. Lets agree to dissolve the Forum and the > > Foundation. > > Lets concentrate on our Local Counties, Districts, Old > > boys/girls > > organizations in our old schools were we are more > > comfortable, tribes > > and probably religion. Without payment of subscription > > fees, we have > > no right to belong to and hold an organization and its > > leadership > > accountable. Lets wind up the WNF and if our treasurer has > > contributions by some members let him arrange to refund > > them. We > > resisted the idea of a Ministry for West Nile affairs and > > now other > > regions have Ministries. West Nile doesn't deserve us. We > > lied to > > ourselves that we are of the Golden generation. But at this > > rate we > > are worse than our ' Kasamvu' (Sugar cane cutter) > > relatives. For they > > were not as enlightened as we are. > > _______________________________________________ > > WestNileNet mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted > > them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not > > responsible for them in any way. > > _______________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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