28 Feb 2017

February 28, 2017

Staff Meeting Notes

Updates on the action plans.

Lise	Training went well, 8 people completed it. It was an opportunity for participants to spend time with Belay team and Belay supporters and it was an opportunity for Belay supporters to know our participants and their business ideas/stories. The incubator idea was born from the training as a way to help these aspiring entrepreneurs start businesses. “From now on, every staff meeting needs to be discussing how to help the Duhu, convert their ideas into businesses” said Jamie Among these entrepreneurs, Priorities are Immaculee and Didier; Lise is in charge of this but she needs to involves Belay team in this. Lise needs to submit the DuHope business plan and the training report by the week. Highlights of March are training with Word made flesh , M&E system and studying Didier and Immaculee’s businesses.
Marlene& Heather	They did games last week with DuHope women as it was planned and it went well. Women are getting used to leading the bible study. The devotion in the advanced CE training went well, the participants were interested. The faith statement will be submitted today. We are still doing the living in God’s zone led by Jamie.  Marlene reminded us to do the homework. Marlene and Heather have identified churches that they can work with in ministering to the women because the women have expressed a need to join churches
Maurice	Maurice has now designed the flowcharts(naming of accounts) of US finances. He is going to send bank statements of Belay US account to Jamie by tomorrow in order to get descriptions of the transactions and record them in Quickbooks. This is the focus of the week. March highlights are on paying regular taxes and paying CIT. Maurice is comparing a bank that works better between Access and Equity so that we may move all Belay and DuHope accounts there. We also need to replace Heather with another person to the position of managing director of DuHope. Jamie and Maurice will check that at RDB on Friday at 8 am
Gabie& Mpinga	There is a catalogue that people can use to buy or view DuHope available products. Thy are planning to do a summer collection after they see how spring sells mainly on the US side. The program Soft skills training at DuHope has started. It started with breast cancer. They found a volunteer to teach about HIV for free. she is now doing research. The literacy training preparation will be resumed in Mid March There is a person who wants to volunteer to teach the women about farming that doesn’t require much land. Gabie and Mpinga have put this on their to do list, until they find the right time and right resources to start this project. The focus of the coming month is to look for orders. DuHope and Belay team are looking for ways to help Victoria’s kid who is disabled.
Heather: communication	She is about to work on a newsletter