The Funding Meeting

I had the treat of sitting in on what I'll call a funding meeting. UMCOR, the United Methodist Commitee on Relief, is one of the main funding sources for the Centar. I'm not sure exactly what happenend in the meeting, who was represented, and why some questions were asked, but it was cool. From what I can gather though, UMCOR had a bunch of people travel around Bosnia and they stopped by the Centar. The UMCOR reps were simply a group of people from assorted churches, kinda like a missions trip, but with more of a development/relief aspect. There was a few people my age or slightly older, some middle aged people, and a few elderly people. I add that so that no one thinks that the UMCOR people were a bunch of middle-aged beaurocrates

Their questions centred around what the centar does, what it knows of the surrounding area, how it chooses curriculum and responds to local needs. I got a lot out of the meeting, especially a new appreciation for the Centar and how it operates. They aim to make sure people in the community know why they exist and try to be responsive to what the community needs. The UMCOR people had some good questions, and they seemed generally impressed with our centar. I guess that means that there will likely be more volunteers and such coming to Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, which I think is great.

There are American volunteers coming in 6 weeks, which I think will be cool. Sadly that will mean that our time here is nearly done. It's weird to think that two months today we'll be on a plane leaving Bosnia. I'm kinda sad by the thought, but after the last couple of meals I've had, I wouldn't mind some good Canadian food.

At any rate, it's cold and rainy here, some kids were particularily bad today, and I have supper waiting for me (hope it's good!) . The first post I wrote yesterday didn't send for some reason, and this one wouldn't send until today, sorry for the delay.