By Lydia Bakaki | Interim Chairperson
During this year we were able to contract a surveyor, contractor and tree planter. We purchased trees to plant on our land and we held envisioning meetings with women beneficiaries. Below is a detailed report. We have been able to contract a surveyor, a constructor and tree planter. The surveyor has made profound discoveries about the land we acquired. The land we had surveyed is across from the initially surveyed land. The new land is better for brick making and habitation as opposed to the older piece of land that was mostly swampy. The new land, coincidentally, is where we put the foundation for the common house.
Although we had also started planting trees in preparation for the settling of the women on the land, we postponed the tree planting activity. When we visited the land after planting some trees, we found that some of the trees were found uprooted. The rest of the trees were returned pending the fostering of better understanding from the community.
The envisioning meetings with women beneficiaries were a success. The women were taken through a process to identify their goals. A governance body was also formed. As a result of the meeting, a women’s board was organized. The women are already working with the implementation team to make bricks and start construction.
Some of the challenges we continue to face is that the rate of release of money is far too slow in relationship to the rate at which women are forced to change address and hostility in the neighborhood. We hope that once we begin to get the women settled, the phenomenon will be overtaken by circumstances. We are continuing to deal with the hostility in the neighborhood by organizing discussion meetings in the neighborhood.
Our current plan is to start making bricks immediately with plans to start construction and settle at least five women by the end of the year. This will require speedy release of money from our donors and their funds managers.
We are grateful to our donors and fund managers for the recent $ 661. We would like to start an adopt a woman program in order to enhance participation between the women and willing donors. We would like to hear from you regarding this.
Stand by for the pictures in September 2010.
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