Street Children of Kinshasa

KMHC Update

As you can see, the Kalala Muzeu Health Center is continuing to make progress. Thank you so much for your support of this very important project! The only way for us to finish it is to continue to donate and bring about awareness. The work that has been done so far is well done. Again, thank you to all that are making this possible. This is what Leja Bulela is all about.

Conference Call February 8, 2009

Conference Call Minutes 02-08-2009

Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009
Time: 8:00 PM EST
Call in #: 712-432-1601
Access Code: 307891

Attendees:
Tshilumba Kabongo
Muamba Kabongo
Tania Kasongo
Kono Kadima
Marco Nkashama

Topics discussed:

 LB YAO 2009 Agenda
 Our goal was to fulfill the pledge of raising $10K
 Muamba does not think that we have done that
 There are ideas but they have not been fulfilled
 Some ideas that came from that sentiment were:
 Focus on people who are here rather than those that are not
 Branch out to ALL
 Start out regionally and build a stronger network from there
 Action Steps:
 We all agreed that a realistic goal for February will be to raise $200; you can do this on your own or by soliciting to friends and businesses.
 Challenge yourself!
 We need to find a way to get everyone involved and excited about LB 365-366 days a year

 LB YAO Newsletter
 Deadlines and Ideas for the newsletter were discussed
 This newsletter will be sent to home addresses for more visibility and to try to recruit more LB members
 Below are the deadlines:
 Assignment Distribution: Monday, February 16, 2009
 Stories Due: Monday: March 16, 2009
 Editing, Layout, & Design: March 16-23, 2009
 Printing: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
 Distribution: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
 The following issue of the newsletter will be distributed during the conference the weekend of July 4, 2009



 Open Forum
 Tshilumba is currently working on an exciting fundraiser involving the school that he is at and it should have promising results
 Marco discussed a fundraiser that he attended in Dallas, TX held by some young college students that took a trip to Congo
 They stayed by the Kumba people and saw a lot of hardships, so they held an event to raise awareness and money for DRC
 For more info on this Google “Falling Whistle”
 The Chairman of LB sent an email of concern to everyone since there has been no activity; neither financially nor in communications
 We asked ourselves what can we do about it?
 Kono and Marco raised the point that it is difficult since we are all spread geographically
 This is another challenge for us and we need ideas on how to stay strong even though we are all far apart


Action Steps:
 Raise $200 for February
 Branch out to EVERYONE you know
 Find a way to keep in touch with your fellow LBers





Have a great week and remember:

WE RUN DRC!!!