Skype meeting, April 26

Forgive the typos previously on this site as I had thrown this site together rather quickly without giving it much thought (I told you it wasn't ready to launch!). Note that the ministry we're routing funds through is "Magnetic Ministries", as it was previously wrong. And yes, Kieran, receive is spelled "i before e except after c" - my bad.

Also note: we're down to a week under 2 months! The countdown has begun, and there is still a decent bit to do!

• Immediate to do
  • Liz - shots on the 28th
  • Saving the world
  • Work on legal contract
  • Continue interacting with our connections to find computers, puppets, financing, etc
  • Susan, Liz: connect with children's ministry at NLC
    
• General to do
  • Start big idea planning
    • VBS (Susan)
    • Teaching english (Kieran, Liz)
    • Teaching internet things (Jer, Matt)
    • Teaching business (Sayler)
    • Internet cafe as business (Sayler)
  • Legal/social contract on internet cafe, operational contract (outside organization bringing accountability)
• Update
  • We have a place to stay!
  • Matt, Susan, and Christopher's visas are out
  • Matt volunteered to take over project managing Mahoro.com development
    
• Prayer
  • Kieran: stressed, has to have a work on par with Einstein, 2 chapters left
    
  • Jer: still working with insurance to our knowledge
    
  • Matt: has to get internet cafe stuff done
    
  • Susan: doesn't know
  • Liz: boring week
    
  • Sayler: less stressed this last week, still has a decent bit to do (finishing the semester, not sure what to do for class this summer, working on microfinance stuff and legal issues involved in starting that, etc)
    

Update so far

Over the next week, we will hopefully have a lot more information up about the trip, but for now, here's some basics.

Notes from our meetings from the last couple months are available here.  I will try to keep those meeting notes on here from now on.

We are currently looking for a few key items for our trip to Burundi this summer.  We are going to be setting up an internet cafe in Bujumbura, the profits from which will support the church and outreach projects that the church runs.  In the long run, we hope to use social businesses of this sort (and possibly this specific internet cafe) to provide funds for an orphanage.  We are planning on bringing laptops to Burundi to use for the purpose of the internet cafe.  If you have an old but functional laptop that you are interested in donating for this purpose, we would greatly appreciate it.  We are currently working to have those donations be tax deductible.  Let one of us know if you have a laptop you'd like to donate, or email me at MahoroMF@gmail.com.  We could also use puppets to use in VBS.

Here are the notes from our last Skype meeting on April 15 (since the meeting, we did find a place to stay, though it's more expensive than we wanted - $950 for the month):

• Immediate to do
  • Liz - shots on the 28th
  • Visas - out shortly
  • Saving the world
• General to do
  • Start big idea planning
    • VBS (Susan)
    • Teaching english (Kieran, Liz)
    • Teaching internet things (Jer, Matt)
    • Teaching business (Sayler)
    • Internet cafe as business (Sayler)
  • Legal/social contract on internet cafe, operational contract (outside organization bringing accountability)
• Update
  • Still need place to stay - Felicien is working on it
• Prayer
  • Kieran: feeling pretty stressed
  • Jer: still working with insurance
  • Matt: work has been better, woke up deathly sick (but he had maggie moos so he's better now)
  • Susan: doesn't know
  • Sayler: lots of stuff - setting up a nonprofit, working on school, other stuff

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