Sat 24th Oct – In the morning it’s the Northern region volunteer meeting which Betty chairs with charm and diplomacy. (This is where all the admin gripes get discussed). Then after lunch, the Secure Livelihoods (SL) steering group for Organisational Development (OD). Although I’m primarily working with Education, SL have invited me as a guest. Charlotte can skip this, so takes advantage of Tamale to go shopping at the famous Melkom shop with the bizarre customer purchasing process (choose your stuff from the shelves, give to assistant, who gives you a ticket listing your stuff and puts it all back, then you pay, and with your receipted ticket you come back and collect all your stuff again).
The SL meeting is interesting – I’m able to tell the SL volunteers what the Education volunteers decided 2 weeks earlier at the OD workshop in Bolga; I’m the only person who was at both meetings, and although I had posted a write-up of the Bolga workshop online the SL people are interested in the rationale of the decisions and pretty quickly adopt most of them for SL. (This is all about the detail of how Organisational Assessment will be done for Secure Livelihoods “partners” – i.e. local employers of VSO volunteers).
Mar and Mark have invited other volunteers Rhona, Shirley and Flora for a Philippino-influenced meal. Delicious. We lure Betty in too.
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