[Imc-africa] ....and budget for IMC/WSF and Maseno radio projects

[Ben Samuels]

andy gunn wrote:
> sphinx that all sounds great.  i know funding sometimes takes a long time to
> secure, i just wanted to make sure prometheus was being clear about what plans
> we were making, what schedule we were going to try to meet, and what we needed
> in terms of funding.
>
> it looks like things are getting close!  its very exciting, and i will respond
> to the email about the agenda for the meeting on friday if need be.
> -a
>
>
> sphinx wrote:
>   
>> Hi Andy! I will try to response to some of the points raised in the mail
>> below
>> and then my input on the agenda for Friday's IRC(Internet Relay Chat)
>> meeting
>> I'll put in a seperate mail. Concerning sources of funds, we are also
>> expecting
>> funds from individual donations and local IMCs.
>>
>> On the question of disbursement of budget for the purchase of equipment
>> due to
>> availability and shipping time to insure that all necessary FM broadcast
>> kits
>> and parts can be obtained in time; the situation is as follows:
>>
>> Umverteilen
>>
>> Umverteilen approved their grant of 12,000 EUR (about $14000 USD) to
>> support the
>> project. Umverteilen states they will make disbursements in 3
>> installments of
>> 4.000 each, the second and third disbursement coming after reports on
>> how the
>> first disbursement was used is sent in.
>> Umverteilen specified their funds be used for the transportation of African
>> delegates as included in our request and cost on the ground in via;
>> housing,
>> feeding, print project and other cost on the ground to run the
>> center-stationeries etc.
>> What that indeed means is that since Fabian was the person who made the
>> application, he will have to write a report to umverteilen as requested
>> i.e.
>> after the first disbursement and there after, for the other two
>> disbursements.
>> I know Fabian should be trying now to get  unverleilen to make the first
>> disbursement.
>>
>> XminusY and IMC-Finance
>>
>> Jay put in an application to IMC-Finance and I put in one with XminusY.
>> Both
>> applications requested for funds to buy equipment for the radio
>> including the
>> computers for editing, streaming and automation. IMC-Finance is rounding-up
>> discussions on giving us the grant, the same is the case with XminusY. I
>> got an
>> mail from XminusY which I copied this list my reply a few days back.
>> So as soon as there is conclusion from IMC-Finance or XminusY we should
>> immediately make the funds available for payment of the equipments. This
>> far we
>> have just $211.12 we received as donations from some local indymedias.
>> But both from the Contact persons of X minus Y and IMC-finance
>> discussions the
>> funds will be granted. IMC-Finance will grant the Amount we asked I
>> suppose and
>> XminusY will give us some funds as it seems our application came in
>> pretty late
>> and other projects had been approved. In the days ahead we should be
>> down with
>> equipment buying.
>> Sphinx.
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