Ma-Flo Foundation
Policy
Plan Ma-Flo Foundation 2020 – 2022
Introduction
The ‘Ma-Flo
Foundation’ was created on 20.09.2007 to assist ‘Ma Flo’ (Mrs. Florence
Foyab-Bergner) in her project and registered under Dutch law, at the Chamber of
Commerce of Rotterdam under number 24421756.
A
“Ma-Flo Support Committee” was created at Bali, to assure that the school
community is involved, children are monitored and money properly spent and
accounted for.
Background
During
a family visit in 2005 to her birth town
Ma Flo
decided to do something and with gifts from friends and relatives in
Description of target group
The
inhabitants are almost exclusively part of the Bali-Nyonga sub-ethnic group,
using apart from English, their own vernacular Mungaka and Pidgin English.
Farming is the main occupation, with coffee as a cash crop and maize,
plantains, cocoyam, yam, cassava, sorghum and various vegetables as food crops.
Although
HIV-AIDS
has become a frequent feature in
The
members of the Scots International Church Rotterdam (SICR) have been an
important source of financial support for the Ma Flo project, since it started
in 2005. ‘Ma Flo’ also being a member of SICR, found other SICR members willing
to provide institutional support. Hence the ‘Foundation Ma-Flo’ was created as
mentioned above. However, it is important to mention that the foundation and
the project activities in
At the
end of 2008 was the first time ‘Ma Flo’ left for a self-funded working visit to
Cameroon, carrying funds from the
‘Foundation Ma-Flo’ to pay for project activities. What followed was the
creation of a local Ma-Flo Support Committee in Bali and a regular financial
support of the education of selected pupils over the years till 2017.
Negative (political) developments during
2017 and 2019
The
Anglophone part of Cameroon became federated to the French speaking part in
1961 with the understanding that each would keep its different method of
education and judiciary. Going through a constitutional change from federation
to union and republic, these guarantees of separate systems were more and more
neglected. When this also led to marginalization of the Anglophone Provinces,
the lawyers and teachers, supported by the population, publicly demonstrated in
October 2017. This peaceful protest was brutally repressed by francophone
forces of the central Cameroun Government. Some people were killed, some even
shot from a helicopter.
What
followed was a struggle for independence of guerrilla-style separatists fighting
paramilitary occupying forces of the central Government. This has developed
into a full scale civil war with several thousand killed or murdered, 500,000
IDP’s and 50,000 refugees in Nigeria.
This
situation also affected the education negatively, villages were razed to the
ground and schools closed and even burned.
Fortunately
this was less the case in Bali where schools continued to operate until schools
were forced to close there as well for most of the abovementioned period.
“Ma Flo’s Kids are
Safe and Schooling”
This
could be reported by the last quarter of 2019, as supported children had found
their way into ‘Community Schools’ restoring their education.
Intentions of the Policy Plan 2020 – 2022
The
Policy Plan for the ‘Ma Flo Foundation’ is intended to develop and structure
the activities of the board of the foundation, as fundraising, publicity and
institutional support to the board itself and the activities of the ‘Ma Flo
Bali Aids Orphans Education project’.
1. Functioning
of the Board of the ‘Ma Flo Foundation’
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The
Board of the ‘Ma Flo Foundation’ will extend its membership with two or three
members in order to broaden its base, increase efforts and ideas for
fundraising and give advice to the activities of the project in
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The
Board will write its by-laws in order to regulate the functioning of the ‘Ma
Flo Foundation’ in particular the responsibility of board members and their
term of office.
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The
Board will, being advised by the Project Director and the “Ma-Flo Support
Committee” make efforts to describe the parameters of the ‘Ma Flo Bali Aids
Orphans Education project’, including the more direct target group being the
supported orphans.
2. Fundraising
by the Board and by the “Ma-Flo Support Committee”
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The
Board of the ‘Ma Flo Foundation’ will make efforts to further diversify and
secure its fundraising in order to be able to maintain its level of support for
the costs of education for up to 70
orphans at primary school level.
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The
Board will encourage and assist the “Ma Flo Support Committee” to source for
local funding, be it from the Bali District, the
3. Publicity
for the ’Ma Flo Foundation’ and the ‘Ma Flo Bali Aids Orphans Education
project’
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The
Board will further develop the publicity materials to support fundraising both
in the
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The
Board will produce and publish an attractive annual report in March each year.
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The
Board will further extend the publicity through sites like Facebook and
LinkedIn.
5. Accountancy
and administration
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The
Board will structure and regularise the accountancy and administration in
collaboration with the “Ma Flo Support Committee”.
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The
Board will decide each year in October or November, which amounts of the funds
raised within that calendar year can be sent to the “Ma Flo Support Committee”
to be used for the ‘Ma Flo Bali Aids Orphans Education project’.
6. Development
of the ‘Ma Flo Bali Aids Orphans Education project’
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The
Board will research the possibilities to assist the “Ma Flo Support Committee”
to start an income generating activity to decrease the dependency on cash
fundraising.
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The
Board will research the possibilities to assist the schools where the
beneficiaries of the ‘Ma Flo Bali Aids Orphans Education Project are being
educated, with financing of improvement of physical structures, like amenities
as toilets as well as playgrounds.
Timeline, targets, checks and balances
It is
not easy to set realistic a realistic timeline or targets and assure that
checks and balances are in place, given the situation in
The
Board will therefore develop an action plan, which will describe phases of implementation
for the above mentioned intentions.
Confirmation and adjustments of this Policy
Plan
This
Policy Plan 2020 – 2022 was confirmed in the ‘Ma Flo Foundation’ Board during
an online meeting of 15.03.20. It will be valid till March 2022 and will be
adjusted in March of 2021 if necessary or any earlier if the ‘Ma Flo
Foundation’ Board so decides.