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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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For the Welfare Team, the need.

Jane Bwonya: Tumi amang'ana yengo ku vasenge vamuhenzere avakana valahi vataveye avaseve.

Baba Ndanyi: Avakana avalahi avaveeye nisang'aari, uhul'laa Patrick??! 😎😎

Lung'afa: 🙈🙈🙈🙈. Mbul'laa

Jane Bwonya: Avakana avalahi ni miima; ligondo dave. Anoho ovoraa Ihuoma mu Elechi Amadi's The Concubine?

Evans Muhali: Vasaniaga, milembe mwosi... I'm relatively new here and the first thing I heard being discussed was ivane for bereaved members. I have a proposal to make regarding us having a Benevolent fund that we can fall back to whenever a member is bereaved. I'm proposing that we come up with a welfare wing of this group and that each member raises 10k to be deposited in an account and the money to be used whenever a member is bereaved instead of waiting for donations. My proposal is as follows. The treasurer buys a New Mpesa/ Airtel money line specially for the collections. We give ourselves,say, ten months for each member to deposit 10k into the account. For those who can raise the total amount, please do, but for those who can't,they can pay 1k every month for the ten months in order for all of us to raise 10k. A bank account to be opened for this money then we agree for example that if a member looses a relative,and in this case we should define which relatives qualify for a member to be assisted, we donate 1k each for quick disbursement to the bereaved family and then each member is informed and immediately returns the 1k to the account so that we at all times have 10k each in the account. If all members agree, I think this is a faster way of assisting members in emergency situations. My suggestion.

Lung'afa: Evans, a beautiful idea. We have not responded well to the few cases we have heard of bereavement. And the Welfare Team goes beyond beyond  incidences of funeral. We got saniaga elders who are poor, no food and clothes, kids in school...And such. So we need a super Welfare Team.

Last time we called for a volunteer to head the Team. Would you please head it? Then during AGM members may see to what best?

Thanks

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