Jitpurphedi Women Agricultural Cooperative committee member’s monthly Meeting in Co-operative office Tinpiple, Tarkeshwor Municipality -2 Jitpurphedi
Started in 2010 with the help of Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN), the Jitpurphedi Women’s Agricultural Cooperative seeks to empower women in the Jitpurphedi area by providing women a safe and reliable place to save money, take out loans and start small businesses. The Cooperative has been running independently with the support from VIN as needed and benefited more than 800 members till date.
On April 16th, VIN staff and volunteers had attended the monthly meeting of Management committee, account and loan sub-committee at Jitpurphedi Women Agriculture Co-operative office Tinpiple, Jitpurphedi community, Kathmandu. The main objective of the meeting was to give financial information to all board members and to discuss on recent issues of construction work of co-operative building, add new members in co-operative, loan issues and new training of SWOT analysis. Three committees members participated, including the President Shiva Kumari Aryal, who kicked off the meeting by welcoming VIN volunteers and gave a brief present status updating of co-operative.
A committee member discussed on that day’s agendas. They were focused on 6 agendas; printer purchasing, enter new members in co-operative, pressure for co-operative building construction, policy verification by all members, ownership of co-operative land, others. Women reported that two co-operative member’s husband had a critical health situation so the co-operative proposed for helping them. They discussed agendas individually and decided that the printer will be purchased from new road till 15th of May 2019, Co-operative staff Shanti has taken responsibility for printer purchasing. Three new members will allow entering as a co-operative member with share. Co-operative building construction work was a little bit slow, so the board members gave pressure to complete it. Next agendas there was reviewed of the existing policy of co-operative management, all board members verify the policy by signatures. And the last agenda was that they decided to help Kidney failure man who is the husband of a co-operative member. For that co-operative will raise fund from its members and collected money will give family for better treatment. Finally, they decided to participate all committee members in SWOT analysis of JItpurphedi women Agriculture Co-operative at co-operative office Tinpiple.
The monthly meeting was useful and meaningful. Women had discussions on different agendas and made a decision. They were more excited to participate in the SWOT analysis of Jitpurphedi Women Agriculture co-operative.
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