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Namgyal Basi

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I can appreciate where M Phelps is coming from. Transparency would do a lot of good and would possibly encourage more people to come forth with their donations/contributions. The first planning steps mentioned by Peter seem the way to go. I guess that is something that could be done without much costs and could layout the plans for the project along with ball park funding requirements and overview of the management plans- providng the transparency to potential contributors.

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Peter Baker

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It certainly is a nice  thought  ....but  I WOULD NOT agree   on  the statement   "probably never going to happen  ".....

This  is a concern that has been at the heart of OGBs  for a long time now  and although a system has not been put in place yet  for gathering  funds for the school's maintenance, I  am quite positive that it will sooner  or later. (sooner  I hope !! ) .  

I think  some of the first steps  to put a good working system in place would possibly be   a ) Identify the local OGBs in Kalimpong and request them to set up a Maintenance Commitee ----e.g  OGB Maint committee  b) Open an account for collecting funds  and float the request out to all OGBs  worldwide  c) Identify  the immediate areas where maintenance needs to be done  d) get an accurate estimate of the cost for repair  e) Set  up a short  term (immediate /critical Maint  schedule )   and a long  term (not so critical maint work required ) schedule. Once the funds  are enough  for the first critical maint  job, the OGB MAint Committe  can interface with the  School Board  and offer to do maint work . 

Of course  there is much more  to just the above .....but thats the general idea......

cheers

Peter Baker

   

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Admin

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Going by the rules of this board the posting by M Phelps should be deleted. However, as the comment is worth considering we shall leave it up for a while.       :)


-- Edited by administrator on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 11:56:21 AM

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M Phelps

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That is a nice thought but probably never going to happen. At this stage I certainly would not commit into contributing $20 (or more) a month of my hard earned cash unless I knew where it was going/who was accountable for the funds.  

Like many OGB's I would like support my old school but more often than not  I tend to gravitate towards supporting NGO's and other local organisations http://savethehills.blogspot.com/   http://www.weepingsikkim.blogspot.com/ though my monthly direct debits/ fund raising/ annual gifts/ donations etc

Perhaps a bit more efforts on the school's part to include/ inform the OGB's within Daddy Grahams' vision would be to its advantage.



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George and angela Sarkies

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noI think it would be a good idea if O.G.B.S started to donate 20.00$a month or 20.00Pounds whatever the currency is and send it to some one authorised in your area(country ) and they in return issue you a reciept for the same and the money is sent every 6 months from point of collection to the homes and they in return would have to send a reciept for the same .they would have to give priority to the jobs needed and a statement of money sent to the person sending the money to the homes as to how the money is being used.

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