News from Newton
OLNEY NEWTON LINK COMMITTEE NEWTON SIERRA LEONE
Minute of meeting held 19th November 2006:
Agenda
1.Prayers
2. Reading of last meeting minutes
3. Reading of Correspondences
4. Matters Arising
5. A.O.B
Attendance
- Abubakarr Fofana
- M.J.Showers
- Osseh Jones
- Val King
- Mariatu Kamara
- Mabinty Sesay
- M.S.Koroma
- Momoh Sesay
- Mohamed Kamara
- James Kabbia'
Absentees
- Dominic Usman
- Rosaline Elba
- Claude Kamada
- Prayers - Individual silent prayers were observe. The chairman was absent but made his contribution through phone conversation during the meeting.
- Minutes - The minute of the last meeting was read, corrected and adopted.
- Correspondence - Emails received were also read for the deliberation
- Matters arising –
a. Shelter completion – After deliberation, it was decided to inform beneficiaries to collect their local materials for the preparation of plastering their houses. OLNEY committee through emails and phone calls has promised to send money as soon as possible to purchase materials.
b. Skills – According to report from the secretary, the tailoring has now started. The difficulty is the availability of a free space. The space we have is too small. The tutor also reported that most of the machines spare parts will be needed for repairs. For now only six machines are working properly. Tables ( 100 set) will be needed for both computer and tailoring. For the computer, tutorials will commence sooner the computers are available.
Responding Mr. Mohamed Kamara of St. Mary's church, James Kabbia, Osseh Jones said it is a big step forward to the committees' credibility and sustainability. James spoke to the tutor and confirmed that the benches and some more materials will be needed. Dominic in a phone call with Val during the meeting expressed thanks for the undertaking and he is in line with programmes because he always gets feed back. Val responded that he will need a team to prepare the site for the construction. Mabinty has promised to negotiate for a place on rent comfortable for our classes temporally.
AOB - James Kabbia reported that our visitors Davis and Sarah are expected to be here on the 1 st December 2006. The committee is very pleased to receive them. We pray that they travel safely.
James is graduating. He has extended invitations to members of the committee. He is humbly requesting for a small financial help to offset his debt in college and for entertainment.
The date of next meeting will be 29 th November 2006.
Prepared by
A.B.Fofanah