Who ever is appointed to collect contributions should post his/her cell #. I will call in with my contributions via Money Gram or Western Union. The sooner we organize this, the better
Avudria On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:41 AM, <westnilenet-requ...@kym.net> wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > westnilenet@kym.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > westnilenet-requ...@kym.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > westnilenet-ow...@kym.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: Fwd: Quotable Quote (Yosa Wawa) > 2. Westville Hunger Project (Rogers Anguzu) > 3. Vacation reply (mund...@hotmail.com) > 4. RE: Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4 (Yosa Wawa) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:37:05 +0000 > From: Yosa Wawa <yosaw...@hotmail.com> > Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Quotable Quote > To: <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: <bay107-w40f56dd2bb1f0c13096b0acb...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > > The rivers of West Nile are certainly drying up. The current state of of > Enyau is never pleasing. Not the Enyau I knew. > > > > As we think of four campuses for Arua University - Arua, Koboko, Moyo and > Nebbi, it should not be because we want to decongest Arua. Far from it. > > Arua town is growing and is doing so very fast with and without a > university. The current food scarsity in West Nile will certainly drive more > people to Arua. > > > > The politicians of West Nile should begin lobbying for water to be piped > from the Nile to Mt Liru or Wati(Eti) for domestic and agricultural needs of > West Nile. > > Arua, Koboko and Yumbe could be supplied directly from whatever tanks will > be put in place for holding that water. While Adjumani, Pakwachi and parts > of Moyo could be irrigated directly from the Nile, the fertile parts of West > Nile that lie to the west of the region needs irrigated agriculture. > > > > Do not worry of Agypt's threats. We need to plan and feed our own. > > > > Yosa Wawa > > > > Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:04:39 -0700 > From: majidalemijun...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Quotable Quote > To: westnilenet@kym.net > CC: > > > > > > Uganda is a secular country. we are thankful to IIRO who are wlling to > help open universities branches all over uganda. do admit any students > regardless of their religious baground. fr,rev, clerics imams in uganda are > to work in interest of all students. the few should not devide the citizens. > the members are to reject kokora ideas. IIRO did open university branches in > westnile, arua,koboko,yumbe,nebbi,pakwach,moyo, adjumani in particular. > empty tin sounds loud, create hunger, tin with water in helps the sufferings > westnilers. click this web. and the progress. http://www.iuiu.ac.ug/ by > majid alemi junior in bc. i thank brother caleb for your coments & > complements to brother. remo. also to so unity in this westnilenet forum. > keep up. > > > > > > From: Charles Male <cdm...@gmail.com> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2009 7:54:49 PM > Subject: [WestNileNet] Fwd: Quotable Quote > > > > "All regions in Uganda now have government funded Universities. If we wait > for this roasted meat to cool, it will cool into someone else mouth." > > > Oguzu Lee > > Adripi Oguzu, you have made me really laugh today!! > > And I just want to add: > > ...That someone may not wait for this roasted meat to cool down... !! > > I agree and my suggestion is that people a memorandum should be prepared > for presentation to the committee or Minister of education expressing our > gratitude for this wonderful initiative which is long over due. Unlike > Makerere, we want this university located in Arua but with three other > campuses of one faculty to start with located in Nebbi District, Koboko > District and Moyo District. We want to aviod the congregation of people in > Arua as this may have serious repercussions in the future. With all streams > and rivers drying up, we do not want Arua congested any more than it is now. > For example, Pakwach already has UCC so this could house the Faculty of > Commerce/ business administration etc. > > As John Avudria says, a university brings in a lot of benefits to a place > ranging from top notch research facilities to service jobs (restaurants, dry > cleaning, bars). > > We will once again turn to our Rev Fathers in Arua and the region to lead > us in the preparation of this memo. We have to think far if our region is > going to develop evenly. > > Charles > > > > Instant message from any web browser! Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger > for the Web BETA > _________________________________________________________________ > Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. > > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090810/b92b1629/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:18:49 +0300 > From: "Rogers Anguzu" <rang...@newvision.co.ug> > Subject: [WestNileNet] Westville Hunger Project > To: "'A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile'" > <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: <20090810104804.2b9cdb7...@mail.yelloaccess.co.ug> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Caleb, thanks for moving this to the next level and Jackson thanks for > breaking the ice. I have been deliberately quite on this waiting for > members > to put their views down so we forge a direction for this. > > > > Caleb, I accept your suggestion that we have the Idoru's Audit firm to run > an account for us called Friend's of West Nile, now that Idoru is not in UG > I suggest his partner Xavier takes this up and we set it up so that as soon > as I start receiving some contributions we direct them to the account and > members can also start to deposit on the account direct. For those in the > Diaspora, we will need to avail the bank details so they can wire such > moneys to the account straight. > > > > Caleb, how much has George Afimani pledged? Can you please help me with the > contact person at Idoru's Audit firm? > > > > Jackson, how can we get your contribution, and Members if we want to have > an > impact with this we need to set our selves a deadline for this. A deadline > by which we should hand this over to Red Cross so we work towards that. I > suggest we hand over to Red Cross on Friday 4th September 2009, leaving us > with about 3 weeks to get this done - what do members think. > > > > I also pledge to contribute UShs 100,000/= (About 66 Kilos of Posho) > > > > Thanks. > > > > Rogers > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.47/2289 - Release Date: 08/09/09 > 18:10:00 > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090810/3b163534/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:33:43 -0700 > From: <mund...@hotmail.com> > Subject: [WestNileNet] Vacation reply > To: westnilenet@kym.net > Message-ID: <snt0-mc1-f257d917d3c9ed142e37bc3ae...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090810/4784e335/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:40:45 +0000 > From: Yosa Wawa <yosaw...@hotmail.com> > Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4 > To: <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: <bay107-w194efa527e10af8d403de8cb...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > > Dear All, > > > > This is particularyly for those sons and daughters of West Nile who reside > in North America. > > > > I West Nile going to be represented in th forthcoming meeting between > Ugandans in North America and Government of Uganda officials? > > All things equal, we need to be represented. John Avudria, Charles Male, > Bran Dudu etc, etc, etc,, is it possible to sponsor one two or three of > you? > > > > Yosa Wawa > > > > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:57:50 -0500 > From: javud...@gmail.com > To: westnilenet@kym.net > Subject: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4 > > > Hello Caleb, > Those of you who are on the ground could be very instrumental in helping us > to shake this up. There used to be West Nile community Association in > Kampala chaired by Mr. Joseph Etima. Is this still active? > > In the beginning of this forum , we had a lot of discussion on " What do we > want to call ourselves". I still have notes. As you put it, people have been > too quiete. How can we move forward if operate in this function? > > Avuddria > > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:54 AM, <westnilenet-requ...@kym.net> wrote: > > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > westnilenet@kym.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > westnilenet-requ...@kym.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > westnilenet-ow...@kym.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: Hunger and starvation (Caleb Alaka) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:51:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> > Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Hunger and starvation > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: <770951.90619...@web46407.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear Members, >  > Why don't we walk the talk. One time, we wanted to be pragmatic and mooted > the Idea of an NGO. Now, we are all genuinely concerned about hunger in > West Nile. Some time ago, I opined that we could use DMO's place at Jinja > Road as a place where we could collect some food items for onward > transmission to our starving brethren. I even suggested that our Majid Alemi > Jnr and others would make their contrubutions through a trust account > operated by some cleric. No one thought these were good ideas. Anguzu > brought up this fantastic idea. Every one has been quiet for the last one > week. Why do we discuss these things passionately yet we can't demonstrate > a little virtue of the quality of mercy. We can all afford Ushs 15,000/=. > Lets also demonstrate that we are socially responsible towards our people. > Let Jimmy Adriko of the New Vision be our accountant and we contrubute any > thing, keep proper records and hand over the same to Red Cross as Members of > the > friends of WestNile.  > > --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Rogers Anguzu <rang...@newvision.co.ug> wrote: > > > From: Rogers Anguzu <rang...@newvision.co.ug> > Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] Hunger and starvation > To: "'A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile'" <westnilenet@kym.net> > Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 10:24 AM > > > > > > > > > Members, >  > I appreciate all your contributions on this issue of hunger and pray we can > carry it to a logical conclusion so we don’t go through this next year – > we should have learnt from last year’s experience and put controls in > place to avoid a recurrence. Yesterday I watched a documentary of this > hunger crisis and listened to the testimony of a FAMILY of 5 that confessed > during their trying times, someone gave them 1 Kilogram of Posho, this kept > then going for a week. Apparently they had strategized to use the Posho for > porridge since you need less flour to make porridge. >  > A thought then crossed my mind knowing many of us on this network can > easily buy at least 15 Kilos of Posho at 1,500 UShs per kilo and we have > established channels of distribution such as Red Cross which have the > logistical support to cover the whole of West Nile . So Assuming we are 150 > individuals on this network the math would be as below; >  > 22500/- per person x 150 individuals = 3,375,000/= (As a minimum, any one > can buy more than 15 Kilos) > And as per the Red Cross request that a circulating to all Corporate > institutions, 1 Metric Ton of Food Items goes for 1,700,000/= our sum here > would then get us a minimum of 2 Metric Tons. >  > We would then set up an account and collect this money, hand over to Red > Cross and ask them to buy food and supply to the West Nile region and > specifically areas that are hit hardest. >  > What do Members think? >  > Rogers Anguzu >  > > > > From: westnilenet-boun...@kym.net [mailto:westnilenet-boun...@kym.net] On > Behalf Of Caleb Alaka > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:44 AM > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Hunger and starvation >  > > > > > > Folks, > >  > > why don't we build on Taban's postulations and declarations so as to > develop a working document on this forum which we can send to the respective > Local Governments in West Nile . You remember I once opined that we need to > sponsor or sale an Idea for a "Food Ordinance" in the respective Local > Governments so that food growing and storage becomes compulsory for all > those in the rural areas involved in Tobacco and Mairungi trade and beyond. > We do not need a task force but may be John Jackson can collect our views > and publish it into a working paper which we can forward to our Chief > Administrative officers of the Different Districts. > > --- On Tue, 7/28/09, tabanrob...@yahoo.com <tabanrob...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > From: tabanrob...@yahoo.com <tabanrob...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Hunger and starvation > To: " A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile " <westnilenet@kym.net> > Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 10:10 AM > > > > Fellow West Nilers, >  > It will be unfortunate to keep silent as we discuss this important matter, > which, if not handled now may lead to more social problems with far reaching > effects. >  > Yes i agree with my brother Alaka, Caleb you are right to express your > sentiments in such a manner. I find it totally unacceptable to see to it > that West Nile which was once a food basket has gone to the extent of > witnessing hunger and starvation as was the case in late 1980's upon the > return of Ugandan refugees in exile. >  > Much as i take note of the current prolonged drought, it is imperative to > understand the fact that the birth of a "consumer class" be it in urban or > rural areas has greatly contributed to the current phenomenon in addition > to food exports to South Sudan . Unfortunately the population of the > consumers surpasses production which has been left in the hands of a few > subsistance farmers "producers" who are unable to meet current demand. >  > It is therefore important that a multisectoral approach is adopted to > address the current crisis, i propose the following short term and long term > strategies; >  > Short term: > > A declaration that the situation in the West Nile, greater North and Teso > region is not only untenable but should be declared an Emergency through > advocacy by the sons and daughters of the affected regions, District > councils, Parliamentarians and civil society. The success of this will pave > way for donors to come on board. I still do not believe in the current > practice of "targeted aid" particularly if this is issued along party > ideologies. This can only create more hatred and division in a society that > has suffered from the politics of division. > Long term: > > An integrated food security programme be instituted in the affected > regions with a view of promoting diversification of agriculture through the > creation of subsidies. > A deliberate programme be introduced with a view of changing the attitude > of our people aimed at encouraging many more to appreciate agriculture as > an alternative to informal trading. > Strengthening of the current programmes such as the NAADs despite its > shortcomings. >  > Awania >  > Taban >  > >  > > > > > From: Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:01:56 AM > Subject: [WestNileNet] Hunger and starvation > > > > > Our president said it is a small matter. people should learn to rear goats, > ducks and chicken to augment and supplement grains. I for once agree with > this reasoning. why must people in the villages of Arua want to grow > mairungi and tobacco? simple they want money. what for? to marry a second or > a third wife. By the way, why dont people leave the villages and migrate to > towns since they want money so much. Hunger and more hunger will continue > with or without rains. let them grow their mairungi and tobacco and be > loaded. I do not know which casino's and popular joints they will go to to > spend their well earned dime. I also do not know where they will buy food > from since all of them will have money but no food hence more hunger. >  >  > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > WestNileNet@kym.net > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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