A Thank you for contributing to the Diaspora Scholarship Initiative and towards a successful Jubilee +10 and Graduation and Prize Award Ceremonies
Thank you to all for your contributions
The Jubilee +10 and Graduation and Prize Award ceremonies have come and gone and while we wait for the Secretary General of the association to send out his elaborate report of the event as he has always done in the past, I want to herewith, thank members of the Diaspora who participated through our small but organized effort to make the events a reality. And to those who decided to participate directly with the Home Front rather than with the Diaspora Executive, we say to you thank you as well. The Diaspora initiative was based on achieving two goals; (a) to contribute towards the ceremonies, and; (b) to raise funds for the Diaspora Scholarship Initiative. Even though the amount we raised was disproportionate to the number of members we have in the diaspora, we still achieved our goals with the few members that participated.
Even though the ceremonies have passed there are still enormous responsibilities we all owe to our alma mater. Each of us should regard our participation in our alma mater events with pride, as a philanthropic act which, as you know, is a gracious mechanism in nation building. In the months ahead, the Diaspora leadership shall elaborate on the Diaspora Scholarship Initiative which is geared at providing supplementary or partial financial aid support to needy children. We shall be counting on you for your support to make this project a success. Secondly, we shall be counting on all of us to pay our annual dues which I have asked the Nexsan Diaspora Executive Committee (NDEC) to adjust the amount due to the current hardship that most families are facing and also because we intend not to over-burden members with institutional projects as they have other responsibilities.
Before I elaborate or mention the names of those who contributed to the success of the Jubilee +10 event and how the money was spent, I beg to emphasize that this is not to ridicule those who did not contribute but it is an attempt to be transparent. We did ask individuals to make three types of contributions: Jubilee+10--$20.00, annual membership dues $100.00 and Diaspora Scholarship initiative—a minimum of $20.00 annually. The following contributed to the events: Mercy Manga ($220.00), Assumpta Ebung ($120.00), Irene Ejelle Koge ($50.00), Sheila Time ($50.00), Evelyn Epie ($50.00), Jackson Nanje ($120.00), John Epie ($120.00), Polycarp Mbongwo ($100.00), Divine Koge ($50.00), Dr. George Besong ($100.00), Henry Ekwogge ($50.00), Mathias Fowung ($100.00), and Dr. Mazami Tanji (80.000FRS)
(a) The National Executive Committee of the association levied each nexsan five thousand francs (5,000 FRS) towards the financing of the Jubilee +10 and the Graduation and Prize award ceremonies. And out of the more than three hundred (300) Nexsans in the Diaspora, a disappointing fifteen (15) members responded to the call to make this historic event a success. Each member was levied a sum of twenty ($20.00) dollars. The total amount that Nexsans in the Diaspora sent as their contributions to the event is 100,000FRS.
We all understand how difficult times are these days with the ruffled up economy making it difficult to come up with this small demand which was a request made for many months preceding the event by the National Executive Committee. We also understand that other family obligations might have prevented some from responding to the call from our alma mater for help. We also do understand that during the period that financial request was made by the Diaspora Executive many who were active in the e-group all of a sudden became inactive.
(b) The Diaspora Scholarship Initiative is a pilot project that we in the diaspora intend to make it a model one. The idea was conceived by a few members of the Georgia branch who thought giving some disadvantaged children the opportunity to go to school is prudent. The idea was echoed by Dr. Mazami Tanji in London who has been looking for private opportunities as Mrs. Mercy Esambe Manga to sponsor some disadvantaged children. We are quite grateful to these two especially and the rest of you who have responded to this overture resoundingly. Initially, we had anticipated sponsoring six (6) students this academic year beginning in September but donors decided to increase the numbers from six to twelve (12). The PTA shall select twelve students from the current Form One (those going to form two) through Lower sixth (those going to Upper Sixth). The selection shall also be a girl and a boy student from those selected classes. So, therefore, the incoming Form One and the Upper Sixth shall not benefit from this overture.
So far, we were fortunate to raise the total sum of 450,000FRS and the money was sent by the Diaspora Treasurer, Mrs. Assumpta Ebung Alobwede to Mr. Ewane James Sumelong, the Diaspora representative at the Jubilee +10 in Cameroon last Thursday who is expected to open an account at ECOBANK in Cameroon with the signatures of the National President and the National Treasurer. If and when that is done, it shall be made public to all. The total disbursement for this academic year shall be 300,000FRS. In general, the total amount that was sent by Diaspora members, that is for the scholarship and Jubilee +10 ceremonies was 551,000FRS (450,000FRS for the scholarship fund and 100,000FRS for the Jubilee+10 ceremonies).
We are extremely grateful to those of you who contributed and to those whose checks are still on the way. The Scholarship Initiative shall continue and we are therefore pleading with all of us to appeal to our inner consciences to contribute to this fund and to sustain this lofty initiative. The treasurer shall be contacting each and everyone for our annual donations.
Thank you all very much and may the Almighty God continue to provide us with abundance.
Jackson Nanje
Veep Diaspora
The Jubilee +10 and Graduation and Prize Award ceremonies have come and gone and while we wait for the Secretary General of the association to send out his elaborate report of the event as he has always done in the past, I want to herewith, thank members of the Diaspora who participated through our small but organized effort to make the events a reality. And to those who decided to participate directly with the Home Front rather than with the Diaspora Executive, we say to you thank you as well. The Diaspora initiative was based on achieving two goals; (a) to contribute towards the ceremonies, and; (b) to raise funds for the Diaspora Scholarship Initiative. Even though the amount we raised was disproportionate to the number of members we have in the diaspora, we still achieved our goals with the few members that participated.
Even though the ceremonies have passed there are still enormous responsibilities we all owe to our alma mater. Each of us should regard our participation in our alma mater events with pride, as a philanthropic act which, as you know, is a gracious mechanism in nation building. In the months ahead, the Diaspora leadership shall elaborate on the Diaspora Scholarship Initiative which is geared at providing supplementary or partial financial aid support to needy children. We shall be counting on you for your support to make this project a success. Secondly, we shall be counting on all of us to pay our annual dues which I have asked the Nexsan Diaspora Executive Committee (NDEC) to adjust the amount due to the current hardship that most families are facing and also because we intend not to over-burden members with institutional projects as they have other responsibilities.
Before I elaborate or mention the names of those who contributed to the success of the Jubilee +10 event and how the money was spent, I beg to emphasize that this is not to ridicule those who did not contribute but it is an attempt to be transparent. We did ask individuals to make three types of contributions: Jubilee+10--$20.00, annual membership dues $100.00 and Diaspora Scholarship initiative—a minimum of $20.00 annually. The following contributed to the events: Mercy Manga ($220.00), Assumpta Ebung ($120.00), Irene Ejelle Koge ($50.00), Sheila Time ($50.00), Evelyn Epie ($50.00), Jackson Nanje ($120.00), John Epie ($120.00), Polycarp Mbongwo ($100.00), Divine Koge ($50.00), Dr. George Besong ($100.00), Henry Ekwogge ($50.00), Mathias Fowung ($100.00), and Dr. Mazami Tanji (80.000FRS)
(a) The National Executive Committee of the association levied each nexsan five thousand francs (5,000 FRS) towards the financing of the Jubilee +10 and the Graduation and Prize award ceremonies. And out of the more than three hundred (300) Nexsans in the Diaspora, a disappointing fifteen (15) members responded to the call to make this historic event a success. Each member was levied a sum of twenty ($20.00) dollars. The total amount that Nexsans in the Diaspora sent as their contributions to the event is 100,000FRS.
We all understand how difficult times are these days with the ruffled up economy making it difficult to come up with this small demand which was a request made for many months preceding the event by the National Executive Committee. We also understand that other family obligations might have prevented some from responding to the call from our alma mater for help. We also do understand that during the period that financial request was made by the Diaspora Executive many who were active in the e-group all of a sudden became inactive.
(b) The Diaspora Scholarship Initiative is a pilot project that we in the diaspora intend to make it a model one. The idea was conceived by a few members of the Georgia branch who thought giving some disadvantaged children the opportunity to go to school is prudent. The idea was echoed by Dr. Mazami Tanji in London who has been looking for private opportunities as Mrs. Mercy Esambe Manga to sponsor some disadvantaged children. We are quite grateful to these two especially and the rest of you who have responded to this overture resoundingly. Initially, we had anticipated sponsoring six (6) students this academic year beginning in September but donors decided to increase the numbers from six to twelve (12). The PTA shall select twelve students from the current Form One (those going to form two) through Lower sixth (those going to Upper Sixth). The selection shall also be a girl and a boy student from those selected classes. So, therefore, the incoming Form One and the Upper Sixth shall not benefit from this overture.
So far, we were fortunate to raise the total sum of 450,000FRS and the money was sent by the Diaspora Treasurer, Mrs. Assumpta Ebung Alobwede to Mr. Ewane James Sumelong, the Diaspora representative at the Jubilee +10 in Cameroon last Thursday who is expected to open an account at ECOBANK in Cameroon with the signatures of the National President and the National Treasurer. If and when that is done, it shall be made public to all. The total disbursement for this academic year shall be 300,000FRS. In general, the total amount that was sent by Diaspora members, that is for the scholarship and Jubilee +10 ceremonies was 551,000FRS (450,000FRS for the scholarship fund and 100,000FRS for the Jubilee+10 ceremonies).
We are extremely grateful to those of you who contributed and to those whose checks are still on the way. The Scholarship Initiative shall continue and we are therefore pleading with all of us to appeal to our inner consciences to contribute to this fund and to sustain this lofty initiative. The treasurer shall be contacting each and everyone for our annual donations.
Thank you all very much and may the Almighty God continue to provide us with abundance.
Jackson Nanje
Veep Diaspora
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