Today looked different from Saturday kitchens: polished floors, printed agendas, and the nervous energy of an organisation formally meeting itself for the first time.
We held our inaugural Annual General Meeting — covering our 2024 strategic plan, financial reporting, what we achieved, and where we stumbled. Departmental directors stood up, named their challenges, and offered solutions that sounded like work, not slogans.
There were slides, questions, and the occasional awkward pause — the good kind — where someone admits a delay and the room responds with “how do we fix it,” not finger‑pointing.
Our Chairman, Mr Alex Devereux, held the room steady at Clyde & Co, Keystone Park, Riverside Drive — a setting that reminded us governance is part of mission, not an accessory to it.
If you have only ever seen NGOs through stories, this is the quieter truth: accountability is meetings like this — numbers on a screen, votes recorded, minutes kept.
We left with a stronger sense of one team. Visit etco-kenya.org to follow our plans — and if you are looking to partner with an NGO that submits its accounts to daylight, we would love to talk.
The feeding programme will still be waiting on Saturday — sufuria steam and all — but now it sits inside a clearer picture of what the whole organisation is trying to build, and what it costs to build it well.
Transparency is not a buzzword; it is what allows neighbours, donors, and partners to stay with us when the road bends.
