NGOs need to band together to achieve goals

Non-governmen-tal organisations (NGOs) are being encouraged to come together in order to work collaboratively and help each other achieve their goals.

 

This urge came from Kemar Saffrey, the President and Founder of the National NGO Network (NNN) after the NNN Fundraising Conference which was held at the Radisson Aquatica Hotel yesterday morning. 

 

Saffrey revealed that this would be the second year that the NNN had been hosting events surrounding charities. He explained that it is a network that aims to bring together the NGOs in Barbados in order to work collaboratively. He added that he realised that a lot of the charities do things on their own but, through his travels, saw other charities working together successfully even though each charity involved in the network has a different cause. This is what he hopes to achieve in Barbados.

 

He explained that even though he works with the homeless, it did not mean that he could not advocate for a policy of children’s charity. He added that in the long run, it meant that when his charity needs help, another charity will be able and more willing to lend a hand, which in turn ends up being more effective.

 

Saffrey admitted that it is still kind of a challenge to find charities in Barbados and to get them to come out and band together because you will find that some charities only banded together based on what interests them.

 

“So the network, and the whole idea of it is to bring charities together for one common purpose,” Saffrey related.

 

The President went on to reveal that even though compared to the conference that they had in 2016, the turn out of the charities yesterday morning could not compare, they measured their success based on what people present do with the information that they are able to provide to them. He said that he believed success stemmed from who was going to take the knowledge and what they were going to do with it.