NGO coordination? I think not!

UNICEF stole our thunder!! Donors are visiting a local/Sudanese Indigenous NGO (SINGO – my new favourite acronym), and said SINGO showed up at the Save-the-Children pre-school facilities about thirty minutes before our planned parent meeting. The teachers and parents were swooped up. We waited and tried to tell the unengaged ‘care-givers’ that hitting children with sticks does not add up to giving care. Our cross-
cultural sign-language wasn’t so effective needless to say. After a series of pictures of portraits of cute lil kids, the donors were ready to go and it would seem our golden moment had arrived. Wrong! It was spontaneously lunch-time (or as the case may realistically be, the one meal these kids eat per day). The WFP distribution is evidently supporting a make-shift school feeding programme (which, in my opinion we should be privy to, given that the entire centre is a save-program, in theory). At least some folk got what they came for. Meeting postponed round 3.