STAFFS
MEETING 20th March 2017
Business
development by Lise
Last week:
·
Started teaching last week at Word Made Flesh, goes
there 3 times a week. It is taking a lot of her time because the level of
education of the women is low thus she has to translate and edit the material.
However, it is good because she will be able to use the same for DuHope women.
·
Incubation: has 4 business so far: Didier, Immaculee,
the soap, and Claudine’s business to which the rabbit business was also added.
For the
soap business Lise is doing cost analysis with Rachel to evaluate ways of
making it a DuHope business,
For
Claudine’s business, she chose to go with the goat business, it is viable
compared to everything else she had proposed. Lise is doing final edits to the
business plan and she will send it this week.
For
Didier, Lise is evaluating his business to know the shares Belay will need to
put in.
For
Immacule, Lise is waiting on her business plan,
For Francoise’s
business there isn’t much work needed since she is already operational.
·
Business plan: will meet Chad to help in
financial projections
·
Operations: will work on the edits during this
month
Spiritual
integration/ admin/ literacy by Marlene
·
Administration: everything is going well; she
is helping in various office errands as needed. Requesting the team to inform
at least one day ahead for any requests for better collaboration.
·
Literacy: will focus on searching a material
that suits the woman better, will have decided of the material to use by this
week.
·
Spiritual Integration: we did a Bible study on
Spiritual gifts last Friday, the team to give any feedback they have from that.
We will have one more session on that then proceed with Ephesians. The Bible
studies at DuHope are happening as usual. On Mondays Bible study will be
happening after Counselling so that she gets to go there once in a while after
staffs meeting to supervise. On Tuesday Janet will come in, for Bible study
just to give the women a background on the universe and some science in the
context of the study on creation they are doing. On Friday Heather will bring
Jake along for the women’s visit for job shadowing. Marlene to advise on the
person they would visit.
DuHope updates by Mpinga
·
There was a Sales
event last Saturday 18th March
·
The products that
Jamie didn’t take were dropped at the shop
·
Jeanna took some
products for Jamie
·
Mpinga was asked to focus this week on whether
they need to make summer products, i.e evaluating how spring collection is
selling
·
There was an incident
with the women so in the staff meeting they decided that on Mondays there will
be a bible study after counselling.
Marketing
by Heather
·
Has submitted an e-newsletter waiting for
approval
·
Was advised to put on hold any advertisement on
social media during the memorial week. We could just post a sympathy note.
·
We have been invited to an event at the US
Embassy about young women entrepreneurship on Friday 24th March from
10AM-1PM. Lise will be on panel, some Duhus will attend the event, we are allowed
to do a small expo of our products and Duhus’s products. Since phones are not allowed
inside there will be no marketing about it.
·
DuHope products are still on sale at the shop
will need to push that on social media.
AOB
·
Gabie will have a meeting with Marlene and
Maurice to decide on some of Maurice’s admin responsibilities that Marlene can
take over.
·
There will be no Bible study on Friday because
of the event at the US Embassy
·
Lise, Mpinga and Charlotte will have a meeting
with the women to discuss on the emergency fund’s use. The women need to learn
to use efficiently the money they get from DuHope so that they just request the
loan as a case of emergency only.
Prayer
request
Maurice
wasn’t able to attend the meeting because her sister got into an accident. She
wasn’t physically injured but was traumatized. Pray for a quick recovery.
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