2023 · Activity report
June 2023 annual general meeting
At our 24 June meeting in Musang, we reviewed activities and set priorities. We discussed continuing home visits, working on inclusion with schools, churches and cultural groups, developing partnerships and funding, and planning livelihood training.
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Gathering in Musang
We held our second annual general meeting at the administrative branch office in Musang on 24 June 2023. Members and people supported by the organisation came together to review the previous year and discuss the next programme of work. Singing and animation led by participants began at 10:30 a.m. An opening prayer and meditation emphasised that everyone has something to contribute. The agenda was then presented.
Our coordinator, Drusilla I. Buriya Njeatih, welcomed those present, explained the organisation’s name and recalled its greeting, ‘Together let’s live happily’. She reviewed activities and achievements before presenting the proposed work ahead. The programme combined organisational business with performances and opportunities for participants to speak.
The proposed programme of work
The coordinator proposed continuing home visits and developing inclusive-practice sessions with schools, church groups and cultural associations. Capacity building for members and participants, further project proposals, fundraising and collaboration with other organisations were also on the agenda. Neighbourhood liaison people were proposed to make information easier to share.
Income-generating activities were a particular priority. The coordinator explained the intention to train participants in poultry keeping and seek resources to help them begin. At this meeting the poultry programme was a funding and implementation intention. The later training, delivery and monitoring records establish what happened subsequently.
Financial presentation and discussion
The financial secretary presented the organisation’s financial report after a musical interlude. The source records a discussion of income, expenditure, outstanding liabilities and a member’s contribution towards reducing debt. These were part of the meeting’s accountability discussion. The figures in that passage require reconciliation with the accounts before a financial statement can be issued publicly.
The meeting also considered how to prepare children’s presentations more effectively. A proposal was made to invite participants ahead of future events so that sketches, slogans and the fashion parade could be rehearsed with enough time. This practical point concerned the organisation of future gatherings.
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Ask about reuseA sketch about access to healthcare
Participants and members performed a hospital scene about the treatment of people with disabilities. In the sketch, a patient using sign language struggled to be heard by a member of the healthcare staff. The performance gave the gathering a concrete example of a communication barrier and exclusion in everyday services.
Reactions from the floor called for equality and inclusion. This was a staged presentation and the discussion that followed it. It was not a documented complaint about an identified hospital or clinician. The account preserves the issue the participants chose to raise without turning the scene into an allegation about a particular service.
Performances and participants’ voices
A fashion parade and slogans followed. The messages included ‘Disability is not inability’, recognition of different talents and the importance of education for children with disabilities. Musical interludes punctuated the programme.
Participants were then invited to share their experiences. The report describes more people wishing to speak than the time available allowed. Several representatives expressed appreciation for support received and hoped that the organisation would obtain resources to continue. These are expressions recorded at the gathering. They do not provide a measured assessment of changes in each household’s circumstances.
Neighbourhood contacts and the close
The gathering selected liaison people for Ntarikon, the End of Tar/Longla area, Mile 8 Mankon and Small Mankon. Their intended role was to receive information and pass it on to other participants when needed. This addressed a practical communication need rather than establishing new service offices.
The coordinator thanked those present for their time and sacrifices. A closing prayer was followed by refreshments shared by members and participants. The source places the close at about 2:20 p.m. The later July activity report records a separate evaluation meeting, where members returned to what had gone well, what had not, the next work plan and the financial discussion.