2011 NAMCA AGM Vol 1 | Page 16

companies, we finally found an insurance plan provided by Hartford Insurance that would adequately address Awareness of NAMCA our needs. The plan would cover everyone who is a registered and paid member of NAMCA. It would cost only In many of my conversations with many bamasaaba, I was always surprised to hear from them that they did about $ 120-145 a year depending on the age of the applicants. Family coverage is provided under these plans not even know of the existence of NAMCA. Together with the board we began to issue a periodic newsletter and small fee of 40- 50 cents will be charged for every additional child under the age of 18. We are going to and send it to our entire database to both members and non members– our plan to send out a newsletter conduct a sign process during the meeting, we urge every member to sign up . For the plan to be effective we quarterly. This resulted to increased interest in our organization. We measured this by the monitoring the traffic are required to have a minimum of 25 members signed up. on our website. I happy to report that the traffic on our website has increased more than 500% compared to the previous year. Our challenge in the coming year to turn this interest into action. Utilization of Web Technology for Efficiency and Communications The NAMCA leadership and indeed membership is very geographically dispersed and this presents a challenge In June 2010 I took a trip to Uganda where I was heavily involved in many activities to raise the awareness of in the day to day running of the organization. To mitigate this we set out to create an online portal where NAMCA. I visited various institutions including the University student Unions and Churches where pledged we can collaborate better but also more importantly have access to systems that can help in the areas of to give our support whenever we can. I was intimately involved with Inzu ya Masaba and the Umkuuka finance, communication with members and sharing of important documents. We identified Google apps as office where we led various leadership efforts that were in the interests of all bamasaaba. We requested having the array of tools to assist us in this—however it was provided at a huge cost. To our luck Google the government of Uganda to forgive the heavily indebted Nabumali High school – to which the President runs a program where select non-profit organizations are availed these tools for free – we promptly applied of Uganda promptly yielded offering to pay off the Schools debt. In addition we were involved in finding a and where given free access. We have already fully implemented finance administration of NAMCA—all our solution to crisis that befell BCU. finance records are now fully electronic- we are able to obtain financial reports instantly. 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