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Luanda Reggae Defenders - what is your long term agenda?

Luanda Reggae Defenders is a now a popular movement with roots in Vihiga and border Siaya and Kakamega counties Attention is brought to the manner and conduct the movement has gained fame and followers, mainly the Youths. The movement capitalizes on funerals. With a poor culture of putting the dead to rest, the Reggae Defenders have taken it by storm and rebranded the infamous ‘Disco Matanga’ – disco at funeral. Reggae Defenders on move. Pic: Charles Rankings: Facebook They mobilize quickly on the day the dead will be discharged from the mortuary. They have this huge old school sound system that is over buzzing to no clear reggae song - that they hire a pickup to carry - and it has a young DJ mainly standing there than mixing anything. Often, against the rules, the casket is grabbed from a hearse vehicle and tied to a motorbike. There it will be swayed and jerk breaked between other motorbikes on the narrow roads. That, is, how a fellow soldier, often a young dead, is mourned. ...
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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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