Townshipvibes

It was a successful relaunch of Nhowe Mission Old Students Association (NOSA), a job well done to everyone who was involved in the successful relaunch of NOSA. Now that we have passed the most difficult hurdle, it’s now time for action. Thank you Mr Secretary General Ephinos Gatsi for your hard work. In this post I will give you an extract from the email I received from Secretary General, Ephinos Gatsi with a list of members given the mandate to run the affairs of Nhowe Old Students Association (NOSA).

Hon Karimanzira, Prof Chetsanga , Dr Guramatunhu were conferred as Patron, Vice Patron and President respectively.

Other key appointments were as follows:

Chairman of Council James Mandizvidza

Secretary General Ephinos Gatsi

Treasurer Rex Madamombe

Secretary for Legal Affairs Lillian Motsi

Secretary for information and Publicity Takawira Dururu

Deputy Secretary for Legal Affairs Rebecca Takavadii

Secretary for sporting affairs Elvis Tarasana

There were more appointments which will be availed in the proper minutes.

Diaspora Nominations were endorsed as they were:

- Secretary for Diaspora Membership Michael Dengwani

- International Liaison Officer Doreen Motsi

- Assistant USA Wilson Chinenyanga

- UK Chapter Sebastian Takavadii

Handling of Finances

- Anybody involved in the handling of finances will go through a police clearance

- All contributions will be transmitted directly to the central account. No other parallel bank accounts will be opened and handled elsewhere other than the main account.

- The President, Chairman , Secretary General , Treasurer and Secretary for legal affairs will be among some of the signatories to ensure high level accountability.

- Contributions and Donations to resume after the bank account has been opened. Any contribution will be receipt and acknowledged to the remitter. The remitter should query if they do not get a receipt for their contribution.

- The Executive will ensure that there shall be a properly constituted Finance Committee before contributions resume.

- It was agreed that the Funds shall be subject to random audits. An audit committee will be put in place before contributions resume.

Other Highlights:

- The President, Dr S Guramatunhu pledged to contribute USD1000 (one thousand dollars ) once the account is opened

- Ambuya Nyandoro who attended the school in 1965 also graced the occasion

- The legal team was tasked to start work on registration of the Association and spearhead the writing of the constitution and other legally relevant documents.

- The council will be meeting this week on Saturday to chart the way forward ( it’s gonna be action and more action!!!!!!)

Acknowledgements: Contributions

Doreen Motsi USD100

Wilson Chinenyanga USD70

Many thanks guys for your contributions.

Please note: Detailed minutes approved by the council and I will make them available to you when I get them.

Feel free to contribute by posting your views.

Saturday 20 June 2009 is the date for the inaugural meeting of Nhowe Old Students Association. At the meeting, members to lead and handle the affairs of the association will be elected. I think the drafting of all the documentation of the Nhowe Old Students Association will be done after this meeting. I will have more information after the meeting on Saturday. People have submitted nominations for the different positions. Some notable names on the lists, include Honourable David Karimanzira for the position of Patron, Professors Chetsanga, vice Patron and Dr S Guramatunhu for President of the association.

More specific information on what the association aims to achieve, I hope to provide in the next posts. But in general, it’s former students and friends of Nhowe coming together so we can do something special for our school whilst we also enjoy the fruits of being properly networked. We should be able to transform Nhowe into one of the best schools around.

The current organising secretary, Ephinos Gatsi has also been nominated for the position of secretary general, and other names include Michael Dengwani, Doreen Motsi, Wilson Chinenyanga, Elvis Tarasana, Rebecca Takavadii, Nhamo Dongo, Tawengwa Mangwende.

I understand it’s early stages, but I will aim to provide as much information as and when I get it. If you haven’t joined already, I think you need to join the Nhowe Old Students Association Group on Facebook.

Feel free to share your views and you can also use the Contact Us form, to get in touch with me.

Here is an update regarding the Nhowe Old Students Association meeting in Harare on Saturday 20 June 2009. Those who are in Zimbabwe please do make an effort to attend and those in the diaspora do encourage your friends back home to attend the meeting.

Details:

Venue: Avondale Church of Christ, 41 Mcloughlin Street, Kensington, Harare, TEL 793984

Directions from the city centre: up Prince Edward RD and turn left into Ellis Way after Kensington Shopping Centre(Church right at the corner)

Time 1330hrs

An update from the email I received today from Ephinos regarding the NOSA project.

“The meeting is still on as scheduled (Saturday the 20th, 1330hours)

We need to encourage attendance by all means possible, You are all kindly requested to contact any other former students whom are in touch with and encourage them to attend.

Final Agenda will be circulated first thing tomorrow morning, however please note that the Headmaster of Nhowe will be attending and as well as former senior students like Hon David Karimanzira, Prof C J Chetsanga and Dr Solo Guramatunhu.

The headmaster will be given an opportunity to address the meeting and give a brief update on the school

Urgent Required Action items:

Please circulate your nominations to fill the posts in the structure as communicated below. Please note that further nominations will be allowed on the day to give everyone a chance including those who are not on email,

For diaspora membership, please nominate that we propose three other assistant secretaries to cater for the different locations where our former students are domiciled.

Kindly ensure that this is done by midday tomorrow 19/06/2009

May someone avail a digital camera for use on the day.

Gender Balance on Nominations

To ensure that both former old boys and girls are adequately represented in the committee, it was proposed that each of the secretarial posts be balanced in terms of gender. To that end, it is recommended that if the substantive secretary position is occupied by a female old student, then the deputy secretary should be a male old student and vice Versa.

Feel free to contribute to the growth of Nhowe Old Students Association and also help make it a success. To those in the diaspora, I think we also have a lot of work to do, just to mobilise each other and make sure we take an active part in this project.

Have a nice day.

Thanks to the guys in Zimbabwe, Ephinos Gatsi and the current team for the ground work they have done so far and the more work they continue doing to make the Nhowe Old Students Association (NOSA) project a success, not forgetting all you guys in the diaspora for playing your part in the project. More publicity is need since we need to get every former Nhowe student involved in this great project.

This was a quick note but I will provide more information as and when I get it. There is a Nhowe Old Students Association meeting taking place in Harare, this coming weekend on the 20th of June. I was going to provide more details but I don’t have them off hand, will provide that in a further post.

Every former Nhowe Student’s effort is required if we are to make this project a success. I think at the moment more publicity is needed, so let’s all let others know about NOSA.

I welcome your views and your contributions to the Nhowe Old Students association Project. Your ideas will be forwarded to the organising guys in Harare, but you can also contact them on email. I will provide the addresses in the next post.