Philp Munaawa
At long last, NOTDEC UK has a Ugandan Trustee. Like the buses, we've waited all this time, then two came along together. Philp & Faith were born and raised in Uganda, so they must have a better grasp of Ugandan needs & norms than the rest of us. Philip & Faith married in 2008, and came to the UK in 2009 to do Masters degrees. They now have two school-aged children and live in Leamington Spa - exactly where the Lord needed them to serve as NOTDEC UK Trustees!
Philip is a Software Engineer - exactly the IT-savvy individual that NOTDEC UK needs to get us sharing key documents via the cloud - and doing it properly!
First stop was to set up cloud storage for all our minutes, policy documents, and confidential GDPR data & permissions. But next came the huge ongoing task of storing the detailed information on all of the children - birthday, how they came to NOTDEC, health records, year-by-year photographs, school reports, vocational training or further education, details of any family, etc. For 150+ kids that's LOTS of data.
But Philip is also steering us in our development of this website. Our early work was probably too ambitious - assembling truckloads of information that we did not have the resources to maintain and update. Now we have a better idea of what is required. But we also need Philip to guide us on HOW we do it.
It's a big job!