Saul, to help redirect our focus, I have taken the liberty of changing the
'subject' line in your posting.
I will ignore the remarks referring to me in your piece directed to Seedy
and respond to more important issues, for like the story of the man, his son
and the donkey in Youssou Ndour's song moralizes; in this world, whatever
you do thinking it is the right thing someone criticizes you, so it is
better to follow your own  spirit.

You wrote:
>I did read your proposal twice this past weekend. Frankly, I lost you in
>several places, but you have qualifiers in the doc that state >that some
>committee/other is working on the issue.

It would certainly help if you could point out the places you got lost, so
we can all scrutinize it.

>I'm most interested in the Financing, and Inter-organizational
> >relationship aspects of the org. The Finance issue is deffered, but
> >nothing is said about the hierachy (for lack of a better word) of the
> >member orgs. I'll be most grateful if you could elaborate on that >issue.

Rather than overwhelm the list by posting every single doc. worked on, I
began with the 'synthesis' as this was the basis for the rest of the work. I
shall be posting the 'Structure' doc. worked on by Lamin Jeng and others,
and the 'constitution' etc... soon. Finance was not adequately discussed in
the 'synthesis' doc. because it just was not elaborted on during the
deliberations.

>My own thinking is along the lines of a federation, where the "central"
>(the
>Global org) gets a certain percentage of the funds raised by the "branches"
>(the individual Gambian orgs around the world) on a CONSISTENT and
>PREDICTABLE basis. In graphical terms, the "branches" will all be conduits
>for the transfer of funds from individual Gambians to the nucleus (the
>Global org.) And of course, the issue of leadership needs to be expounded
>upon.
>

The issues you raise are all relevant and and have been elaborated on. It
will be forwarded to the list.

Latjor
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