By Alice McGonnell and Zoenabou Savadogo | Project Leaders
Progress in Ouagadougou
Following our request to meet with the mayor of District 11, we were received on the 09/02/17. The exchanges were fruitful and the mayor promised a plot of land which the district will subsidise, when he receives the order to distribute plots. This is brilliant news!!! TN is still waiting for responses from the other three districts.
Other recent activities include
Fundraising in the UK
Alice has started an application to Rotary International and has joined her local Rotary club. She has also started to contact other organisations for funding.
Since June Alice has completed eight commissions which have raised £330 in total. She is currently working on another commission and has one in the pipeline. She has set up a website to raise awareness about this fundraising initiative, to promote hers and TN members’ work and the project as a whole: www.alicemcgonnell.com
Alice has a place at the University of the Creative Arts where they run a part-time course which starts in September. She focussed her portfolio around Tigoung Nonma and this project.
Progress on funding continues to be made online- we raised $11,787 (£9,500) in 2016. This was thanks to loyal and new donors, a fundraising evening organised and run by generous volunteers which raised £3000 and a run by two volunteers which raised £600 in September. In December we also had some amazingly generous donations during the matching campaign so thank you!
Sales
Since October, £234 ($290) worth of TN members’ arts and crafts have been sold from the UK. This is good although obviously we always want to improve sales. Sales have been made on Etsy, at a couple of markets and through direct made-to-measure clothes orders. We have received a new order for girl’s pyjama trousers and Rasmata’s jewellery collection seems to be popular; maybe these will be lines to develop in the future. Every sale helps to reduce members’ poverty and 20% of their earnings goes back into the cooperative, so keep your eye on Etsy for gifts!
Thank you for your kindness and support
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