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SNEAK PREVIEW

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Story” as it pertains to Bulwagan Foundation Trust.

THE WELLINGTON INITIATIVE It is within the context of a participatory development frame-work that about a dozen or so years ago the idea of building a multi-purpose culturally-orientated community centre was raised by a Filipino youth group leader – Christina Eguna Pan-garuy, who believed that such a space in Wellington could help promote and preserve a rich and colourful heritage so that future generations would be able to remember and cele-brate what makes them unique as a people in a new land consisting as well of a multitude of migrants from many other countries.

From this initial impulse, a group of young Filipina pro-fessionals banded together to take the idea further by organ-ising a special purpose trust called the Bulwagan Foundation Trust, an NZ Charities Commission-registered charity organ-isation. Its Charities Commission Number is: CC21712.

There was nothing impulsive behind the creation of this non-profit vehicle because in the true fashion of participatory de-velopment, it would be one designed to concentrate the ideas, energies, aspirations and focus the financial and hu-man resources of a community that desires to express itself in both the visual and physical realms of experience.

In all its forms, civil society is probably the largest single fac-tor in development, if not in its monetary contribution, then certainly in its human contribution and its experience and its history.

Depending on local political circumstance, civil society has a greater or lesser voice, but the reality has proven again and again that when civil society engages itself in projects and programmes, much better results are achieved both with de-sign and implementation and usually greater effectiveness, including more ownership.

In this context, members of a community must begin to re-cognize more and more that local ownership is the key to successful project effectiveness.

Here in New Zealand, the learning experience of both local and national governments regarding civil society over time has not always been easy, but the benefits of engagement are well worth the costs which should encourage them to provide enabling environments for, listen to and seek part-nerships with the non-profit sector particularly in the pursuit of sustainable and equitable development of its communities and the Bulwagan Foundation Trust is one such non-profit organisation that has what it takes to get things done.

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ENERGISING THE COMMUNITY

When building something from the ground up like a commu-nity centre one needs to appreciate that individuals in a com-munity and other potential funding bodies do not give money for buildings, they give money for what you will do with these buildings.

This means having to develop and prepare a project plan and the principles for fashioning one together are invariably the same: Why, Who, What, When, Where, and How?

All parties who may eventually become stakeholders in such projects need to know:

Why are you doing this?

Who will benefit?

Who will lead the project?

Who will support the project?

What are the practicalities?

When will things happen?

Where is the project located?

How the project is funded?

Putting all these pieces of information together in a simple, concise and straightforward manner requires much research and the extensive time and efforts of project proponents. This responsibility doesn’t fall on just one or two hands alone but many.

When a project plan is eventually done and dusted, there is great value in launching one of many appeals to the commu-nity. And, when it is already well on its way, then it can be-come a success story that others want to join, and they feel their giving might indeed make a difference.

There is a saying which goes that “victory loves preparation” and this is precisely what Bulwagan Foundation Trust re-cently experienced on the day of its first appeal event as can be gleaned from the photos you see on the following page.

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