Communication Log on 2008-01-09
Posted by Tobias Ounga on January 09, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Urgent Attention
1. Food and domestic supplies for CRM for January 2008; Kshs. 16,000/=<br />2. School levies for CRM children for Term I, 2008; Kshs. 3,000/=<br />3. Tropical Focus office running costs for January 2008; Kshs. 12,000/=<br />4. Tropical Focus office rent for January 2008; Kshs. 8,000/=<br />
Updates and General Information
1. Security situation now calming down – public transport back although vehicles few and prices are up by over a third, some shops operating.<br /> 2. On our activities, the children resumed on Monday, all of them except Frank and Ronald whom we are expecting to come on Friday. George also has not come but he called and said he is coming tomorrow (10th Jan).<br />The good news we have is that we went to our bank on Monday 7th January 2008 and found the cheques (which we got from Margee and her team in November) cleared (on 24th Dec 2007). We withdrew the cash on 7th January 2008 and went ahead to implement budgeted items immediately.<br />3. We also managed to purchase items for Pamela Atieno on the 7th January and delivered them on 8th January 2008 (yesterday). We bought for her beddings worth Kshs. 5,440/=, domestic utensils worth Kshs. 1,531/=, household consumables worth Kshs. 770/= and gave her cash of Kshs. 1,800/=. We spent Kshs. 500/= on transport. All expenses on Pamela Atieno was Kshs. 10,041/=. We were accompanied by the Areas Government administrator – Assistant chief – when we delivered the items to Pamela. Pamela as well her children got highly excited on seeing the delivered items. Team from Tropical Focus who delivered the items were Tobias, Caren and Caroline (Newly recruited as a Fields Officer). Pictures were taken during the delivery and are attached elsewhere. Pamela told us to convey lots of thanks to all who donated for her help and to Veronica.<br />We will now go ahead with the construction of Dago Thim latrine because we shall replace funds that we temporarily borrowed from the Dago Thim latrine budget which we used on CRM budgets for previous months. So far, we withdrew the funds on 7th January and Caren will organize for commencement of pit digging and procurement of hardware needed for the first stages of construction.<br />4. We also withdrew cash budgeted for electricity wiring and Tobias (myself) will organize for the materials and technician to do wiring. Unfortunately when we visited Power & Lighting company, they said installation fee is Kshs. 35,000/= and not Kshs. 15,000/= as they previously advertised. We budgeted only Kshs. 15,000/= for the installation fees so Kshs. 20,000/= more shall be required.<br />
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