AGM Between the 10th-12th of October YFU South Africa’s Annual General Meeting was held in Johannesburg with 20 YFU SA volunteers and staff members. This was the first time the meeting was held somewhere else than Cape Town in the history of YFU SA. Board members and staff members started out on the 10th with meetings and the rest arrived the day after. The weekend had a full schedule with meetings and activities, but we still got a little time to take a swim in the pool.
The next morning Nina gave us reflections over the past year and how we can build on for the next year. YFU SA’s marketing intern, Lena, gave us report over her marketing tour has been over the last months. We also got a view over how our regions are doing. Rynette told us about Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga and Iris over Port Elizabeth. Leandro, the admin intern, showed us how he will make the office work easier with less files. After that two workshops followed; one with application process and one with how we can keep the volunteers in the organisation. The meeting ended with a gala dinner on Saturday with great food!
We summarized the past year and got reflections from the volunteers and regional updates on how it is going right now for the students in South Africa. After that we talked about what we can improve in the organisation. Hans started out the meeting by telling the audience about the past year and how the organisation is doing and Limpho gave us a report from the JVC.
Henrik Ocklind, intern
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