DADOUA
(Ah bli younh, ah kpa DADOUA ah ye
Grand Gedeh poh)
National Campaign
Headquarters
519 Spruce Avenue, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
19082, (610)203-4276
“Building an Accountable, Transparent and
Efficient
Service
Delivery Grand Gedeh Association in the
Americas
is our Vision”
Preamble
We
the sons and daughters of Grand Gedeh County, in order to implement needed Services
and develop an Inclusive structure that will augment the process of
Unification in the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas, help promote the
general welfare of all Grandeans home and abroad and provide a sound
leadership that will be Accountable, Transparent and Uphold our Constitution
we have organized ourselves as group to be called “DADOUA”
We
believe that a totally accountable and transparent entity that operates within
the confines of our constitution is bound to succeed at all levels. We will
stop at nothing to incorporate views of every sector of our community to help
carve a sustainable path to peace unity and harmony amongst us. It is in this
regard fellow Grand Gedeans that team “DADOUA” has been formed and organized as
a grassroots entity.
Holding
firm to the true meaning of “DADOUA” which means togetherness and
inclusiveness in the Krahn language, we have banded together to provide a Different
direction for this noble organization of ours and lead her to a new place
where all Grand Gedeans will be totally incorporated irrespective of district, clans, section or
social/birth year group. We will work to create that environment that will
promote the idea of ONE GRAND GEDEH ASSOCIATION in the minds of all our
members.
We will form a common patrimony among all of our
people and join forces with other Liberian county associations and the Union
of Liberian Associations in the Americas, ULAA and other social groups to
work for harmonious relationship amongst ourselves in the Diaspora.
Accountability and
Transparency
· We will provide a simple, but
effective financial management system that will insure financial accountability
and transparency.
· our quarterly comprehensive
financial report will be made to our chapter leaders, other members that dot
not have a chapters and the Board directors within the time frame set forth by
our constitution.
· We will Establish and implement
an internal annual financial review of our accounting system and make the
findings public.
· We will observe and do proper
reporting and filing consistent with internal revenue code for a non-profit
organization like ours.
· For
transparency Team Dadoua’s administration, we will make the requirement of the
constitution that calls for independent audits mandatory for our administration
and all bodies that fall under the umbrella of the association and those audits
will be part of the president’s report to the national conference.
· We promised a standard of
operation that will be based on the principles of Transparency and Trustworthiness
to our membership. We clearly understand that it is our membership that is our
most reliant sponsor, so to gain their trust we will be open, honest and frank
with them as it relates to the management of our finances.
· In our first 30 days, our Transitional
team will do a comprehensive review of the organization’s activities from
outstanding contracts, projects-finished and unfinished and make those findings
public.
·
In the first (3) three hours of
our presidency we will save the people of Grand Gedeh an amount of $8,000.00
(eight thousand dollars), by pledging to cut the president’s compensation
package.
·
Team
Dadoua, will have an open general monthly meeting with our members across the
United States and Canada to augment the process our process Transparency.
Rule of law
Team Dadoua promise to our membership, our
districts organizations i.e.: Gbarzon, Tchien and Konobo, sectional and our
Social/birth year organizations is that “we solemnly swear to uphold and
protect the laws of GGAA”. Our administration will lead by example,
understanding that we do not have prosecutorial power. We will hold supreme
every Article and section of our constitution and govern from that stand point.
· We will make the understanding
of our constitution a priority, understanding the bond it creates among us when
we all feel protected under the law.
· We will provide where it is
necessary tools for chapters and our communities to make available copies of
the constitution to our members.
· Our chapter’s territorial
boundaries will respected by our administration, and members who move from one
chapter to another will be given 60 days to regularize the membership with
their new chapter.
· Our administration will propose
a committee of eminent persons, to be comprised of former presidents and our
elders.
· We will take a closer look at
the way we elect our leaders, our aims are to propose a voting system through
constitutional amendments to the board of directors that is smart, economical
and unifying in nature, we will argue for a system that will allow Grand
Gedeans to vote in their chapters and localities during out national
convention.
Sound Leadership
Understanding
that the success of any efficiently run organization is based on how sound and
organized its leadership team is, Team Dadoua being a group of dedicated Grand
Gedeans with an impeccable record of long service to this organization promised
to lead this organization in a sound and professional manner; we will lead from
a corporate perspective which in our belief is based on productivity, growth
and expansion.
· We promised to provide a sound
and efficient leadership that can meet the challenges and service need of our
membership and develop sound policies that will draw members closer in a
consistent manner. Our strength lies in our proven record of service to our
beloved GGAA and knowing how to co-exist with every facet of our community.
· Written
sound administrative policies, those that will
unify us and create a coherent and vibrant GGAA, will be send to the Board
directors for approval in our first 100 days.
· The
membership committee will
be empowered and funded budget wise to play that role of galvanizing our
members. The chairman of the committee will have monthly meetings with
chapter’s leaders and all localities to familiarize themselves with activities
in those areas.
· The Administration will mandate
the committee to raise the membership fee for all members to $10.00 annually.
This fee will be paid by every Grand Gedean in every locality and is projected
to raise an amount of $20,000.00 per annum.
· We will allocates funds in our
annual budget to be used for chapters, districts organizations, sectional and
social organizations to implement well defined and accepted projects in the
county.
·
Reconciliation
of our people will be prioritize by our administration, we will lead a totally
inclusive GGAA, where the rights of every individual be protected. We will
propose a memorial service that will coincide with the anniversary of the death
of the late president Samuel K. Doe and our people at the Freeport of Monrovia.
This service will be climax with Feast of closure in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh
County. Our aims are to help bring closure in the hearts of our people. The
service will commemorate all the lives of our people that we lost during the civil
crises.
Efficient Service
delivery systems
Team
Dadoua promise to create three service delivery systems, these will be: Educational services, Health and sanitation
services and social services.
Education
We are
fully aware of our place in the country when it comes to education; we are at
the bottom of the pile. We need to be aggressive at all levels to encourage our
young boys and girls to make learning to read and write a priority. We at
Dadoua will focus our resources mostly on providing the needed foundation for
our kids, we will invest heavily in:
· Early childhood education, it is
our belief that the foundation that each child gained at the beginning of their
educational sojourn is vital to their overall development.
· We will make sure that each
student from 6 grades down in the county will get at least the necessities that
will encourage them to stay in school, things like exercise books, pencil
sharpeners and back packs.
· We will work with our districts
officials to obtain basic data on every elementary school in the district.
Those data will be used by our Ways and Means and the Education and training
committees to do proper planning and come up with ideas as to how we can
provide needed services to those schools.
·
Our
long term goal will be to create a reading room in every Jr. High school
outside the perimeter of Zwedru.
· We will provide incentives for
teachers to remain in their areas of assignments in the county especially
teachers who reside in the remote areas of the county.
· As a long term goal we will
study the possibility of a school lunch programs for our kindergarten and
elementary schools kids in the county.
· For our college students we will
propose to the board directors of GGAA to stripe our present scholarship
program and replace it with a blanket tuition payment for all our students at
public universities in the country who can meet our set required guidelines.
· We will seek out our bright
students in all Senior high schools in the Diaspora and the country from Grand
Gedeh to encourage them through aggressive incentives and scholarships programs
to go in the field of Law, medicine and engineering.
It is our promised to the people of Grand
Gedeh, that by 2018 this association will produce 4 lawyers from the Arthur
Grimes School of law at the University of Liberia.
· Provide allotment in our budget
and collaborate with county officials to provide basic training for skilled and
unskilled labor for Grand Gedeans back home. It is our beliefs that for Grand
Gedeans to be competitive in acquiring those jobs that will be created from the
logging and the mining industries in the county they must have the basic
trainings that employers will need to employ Grand Gedeans in the county.
Health and
Sanitation
Team
Dadoua been cognizant of the fact that our health care delivery facilities in
the county are not in the best state, and also knowing that we cannot fix
everything overnight, we will be realistic in our approach. Team Dadaoua will
begin work starting on the first day of her administration with international
philanthropic and donor organizations to bring to light the terrible conditions
of our hospital and other healthcare facilities.
We will
put together commission of 12 healthcare professionals that will in 3 months
time do a feasibility study of our healthcare delivery facilities in the
county. Base on their findings and recommendations, the administration will
embark on an aggressive fund raising campaign to start renovation by the summer
of 2016.
In the
interim we will work along with county officials in order to provide basic
services to our hospitals and clinics in the county. Our immediate short term
goals will include the followings:
· We pledged to provide continuous
electricity at the hospital; our administration will open a direct line of
communication with the hospital where the president in consultation with his
advisors on health matters will have a conference call with hospital
administrators once a month.
· We will build three public
toilets in designated area in the county for sanitation purposes.
·
We
will make sure that there is running water at the hospital at all times
· Working with the established
presidential commission on health and sanitations the administration will carry
out 2 basic drugs drive twice a year to help the hospital with needed over the counter
drugs
· Provide incentives for at least
3 trained nurses to remain in the county at all time during our term in office.
· We will designed, managed and
host a fully interactive website for the Martha Tubman Memorial hospital in
Zwedru to help bring her plight to outside world. By this we hope for donors firsthand
the condition of the hospital.
Social services
· We will identify resources and
opportunities that will improve, develop, and enhance the living condition of
Grand Gedeans in the Diasporas. Whether it is in the area of education, health,
and social welfare, our website will be used as a resourceful tool where our
members can go to search for jobs opportunities, help in filling out
applications for school, financial aid help, providing basic information on
available scholarships programs and articles on adult illiteracy programmed
· We will establish a technical
committee in our first 60 days to work with city officials and our law makers
to revisit the agreement on the operation of the Putu Mountain. Our focus will
be on the social funds, job creation and the environmental impact on the
surrounding communities.
·
In
the first 2 months of our administration, our liaison office, staff by
employees that will be given a stipend by the administration will be up and
running in Zwedru. The necessity of said office cannot be overemphasized.
·
One
of our long term goals is to study the possibility of refurbishing the water
towel in Zwedru to provide clean water to the city and its environs.
· We will empower all our
committees, especially our Membership and the Education and Training committee
to work with all of our chapters and localities to create a transition for new
comers coming in to the US for smooth transition and integration into the
American society by orientating them and identifying resources and opportunity
to make life easy. Such as identifying and referring them to resource centers
and facilities such as Immigration office, government centers, or health care
facilities.
· Empower
our Education and Training committee to establish adult education programs in
our chapters and localities, to provide the basic tools for some of our members
to help in areas like filling out jobs applications where our studies showed
has been a problem for most of our people.
·
We
will work with the Ways and Means committee to aggressively engage the leaders
of the Pennsylvania chapter in the city of Philadelphia our headquarter to
secure
a property to be use as our community center.
Our short term goal will be to get an office space in first 100 days.
· In
the near future it is our hope to secure a piece of land in Zwedru, where a
modern office complex will be erected to house the Grand Gedeh Associations in
the Americas.
