OMOH Team Planning and Evaluation Meeting Saturday 22nd of February 2014

Objectives:

1. Provide an orientation to the initiative
2. Review purpose of team
3. Adopt ground rules for collaborative planning
4. Review draft action plan format
5. Adopt goal/vision
6. Identify challenges to goal/vision
7. Confirm team membership
8. Plan next steps
9. Identify meeting roles
10. Evaluate meeting

Agenda:

9:00     Welcome, review agenda and confirm next meeting time and place

9:15     Review purpose of team

9:30     Review, revise and adopt ground rules for meetings

9:45     Review draft action plan format

10:00   Adopt goal/vision for the group’s planning

10:45   Identify challenges to the goal/vision and strategies for addressing challenges

11:45   Review team membership: do we have who needs to be here given our vision? Other venues for stakeholder input?

12:45   Plan next steps: roles for next meeting;  objectives for next meeting: discuss training of trainers, selection of coaches and demonstration sites, etc.

1:00     Complete meeting evaluation 

Group Picture

Lunch

Watch out for the SUMMER READING CAMP coming up soon with Joelle

Joëlle Esso is a multi-talented artist : painter, comedian, dancer, backing and solo singer. The stage is her school. She has accompanied various artists : Jean-Michel Jarre, Carol Fredericks, Yannick Noah, Jimmy Cliff, Manu Dibango, Céline Dion, Tina Arena, Dee Dee Bridgewater…

 Then, the need to express her own emotions grows. She’s inspired by her homeland, Cameroon. This whirl of cultures and styles calls to a pause, a minimalist expression, an inner listening. This is the trip you’re invited to through her music she calls Afroback (CD « Mungo ! »). 

 She composed the music of the feature film Les Saignantes (the Bloodettes) by Jean-Pierre Bekolo Obama in 2005 (Toronto-world premiere-, Torino, Cannes, Ouagadougou, Carthage, Durban, Barcelone, Bruxelles film festivals…). She sang in the documentary Plume (Feather, Fly Times Pictures, 2006) for the Primary Arts Museum, Paris. 

She played a singer (with her own songs) in Jean Cocteau’s Le Bel Indifférent in 2006 at the Guichet Montparnasse theater, Paris. She performed live at differents theaters and venues such as Unesco Paris and at  Harvard University.

She is the author of the comic book 'Etoo Fils' recounting the life of football star Samuel Eto'o.

The One Mind One Heart Project welcomes you and much is to come out of this union

Our Key Messages

The OMOH Project was founded in Cameroon and is recognised/registered as a charity in Cameroon We operate at a grass roots levels, directly with the children, communities and existing schools, utilising our team's local knowledge and experience.

We support the children, either collectively or via individual sponsorship, to pay for their school fees, uniforms and school equipment. We also meet their basic welfare needs through the provision of meals and basic health services.

We create opportunities for children who are adversely impacted by poverty and a lack of parental support and care. We want each child to flourish, positively impacting their lives and the future outcomes of them and their community.

We operate primarily via online platforms (i.e. website, social media and email) to engage and communicate with you in an effective, responsive and personal way.

Our founders have personal experience of the benefits of education sponsorship and as a team are motivated by their Christian faith and values to meet each child at their individual point of need, regardless of gender or faith.

Accountability

We understand that with a charity, people want to know exactly where their money is going and how it will be used. Since we first launched in February 2012, this has always been a point we want to be clear on.

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Every year we will produce an expenditure list and financial update so you can see exactly where your money will go.

Our Values - What we believe in

We share a great passion to improve the lives of children living in extreme poverty because we believe that children are the world's greatest resource: the future leaders and citizens of tomorrow.

We know that children are the world's greatest resource; that, if they have health, education and skills as well as the inner strength, confidence and wisdom to take full advantage of those assets, children are the key to reversing poverty.

We believe that education is the key out of poverty.We are committed to helping children and their communities to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty by meeting the needs that have kept them in the clutches of it. We have identified these needs as the lack of funding for education, sponsorships or skills training; malnutrition and food shortages; diseases and illness; and overall lack of welfare support.

Debra Debs - The Face of the OMOH Project

Debra Debs, The Face of the OMOH Project

Debra Debs owes her early music days to her mother's Jazz collection and the missionary boarding school for girls she attended where she sang tenor in both the choir and girl band formed with 7 classmates. Encouraged by her drama teacher, in the summer of 2000 she pursued a degree in Film & Media with Drama in Winchester, UK although dropping out 5 months later saying “...I didn't want to analyse shadows in film noirs” Fortunately for music lovers a Popular Music degree at the Tech Music schools soon followed topped-up with a Masters in International Business.

The last 3 years have culminated in an impressive music CV for an unsigned artist kicking off with her 2011 EP release ‘WHUMAN’, appearances and airtime for ‘LifeCycles’ on London’s Soul/RnB/Jazz specialist stations such as Jazz FM, BBC 94.9, Solar Radio, Mi-Soul etc performing at several sold out venues including London’s prestigious Royal Opera House; winning Best Female Urban Act-Cameroon Academy Awards and performing at the Urban Music Awards 2013. She’s graced the catwalk of the UKs biggest Africa Fashion event [Africa Fashion Week London in 2013] , the National Reality TV Awards and British Young Business Awards performing to Vince Cable and the Mayor of Camden.

More impressing is her accolade of hitting 1+ million Youtube hits for her 2013 summer official video for Africa [Higher Higher], a poignant tale of corruption and thirst for growth and development - which has also aired on local and international TV stations syndicated to over 30 countries in Africa.

The talented Cameroon-born, London-based soul singer/song-writer Debra Debs returns with a fresh new album entitled 'LifeCycles' - released late November 2013 and rapidly garnering rave reviews within the UK soul and jazz circuit. For music lovers with a penchant for sounds blessed with groove and soul, this is one album that is guaranteed to stay on rotate.

Recently featured on Jazz FM’s ‘Album of the Week’, her music is a blend of "NeosoulfulJazzyRnBAfrosoulThings" and as much of a mouthful that is, the ‘LifeCycles’ LP is an intricate blend of sounds infused with 90's RnB, Jazz, Gospel, AfroSoul and skilled lyricism that tend to impart socio-conscious messages or resonate poetic enchantments for those with a weakness at describing seduction and life’s multi-experiences.

There is no mistaking she's been influenced by the likes of Jill Scott, Ella Fitzgerald, Lauryn Hill, Floetry, Sarah Vaughn, Mary J Blige and many other greats. Having recently signed a 2-year licensing and distribution deal with Sweet Soul Records in Japan [HMV, Tower Records etc] and currently promoting ‘LifeCycles, Debra Debs is impressively one of the UK’s finest emerging artists and certainly one to watch in 2014.

The One Mind - One Heart OMOH Welcomes you on Board

OMOH's Roving Ambassador a blend of Beauty and Brains

The One Mind One Heart Roving Ambassador- Tata Lilian

TATA LILIAN SHULIKA is a 26 year old female born in Kumbo, Bui division found in the North West region of Cameroon.

She obtained her Ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates from Saint Augustine’s college and later on moved to the university of Buea where she graduated with a Second Class Honors in Geography in 2009. She then got into the International relations institute of Cameroon where she obtained a Professional Masters degree in Regional Integration and Management of Community Institutions and presently pursuing another Professional Masters Degree in Diplomacy.

Her brains have had her attend a couple of International Conferences and visited a couple of countries for such as the United Arab Emirates, Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial guinea, Ethiopia, the united kingdom and the United states of America.

She recently acted as the Cameroon Adviser to the United Nations in New York during the United Nations General Assembly, as an intern at the Cameroon permanent mission to the United Nations.

She serves as the Project Coordinator with the NGONSO
Youth Forum promoting leadership, entrepreneurship and youth development in the Nso community.

As a UN Volunteer, assists civil societies in promoting community development projects.

She intends using her exposure to bring a new lift to the OMOH project.

The entire One Mind - One Heart OMOH welcomes you on board.