Progress at Work

A lot of you that I have spoken to, while in Mozambique, have questioned whether I am actually doing any work. That question always seems to follow me around wherever I go and whatever I do. Well let me set the record straight. YES I WORK. In fact, I work every day! I have not missed a day yet, well except for one Friday when I travelled to Swaziland. Fridays are half days anyway and I made the time up during the following week by staying late. In fact, the past two weeks I have had to walk to and from work. Honestly, I prefer it to driving. The walk is about 50 minutes there and an hour back. It takes longer to back partly because it is uphill most of the way. Although the walk to work is sometimes a little sweaty and uncomfortable, I think I still prefer it to sitting in an air conditioned car on the 401 bumper to bumper. I hate traffic! I have come to accept it as a part of life in Toronto, but I really hate it. I think it is unproductive, inefficient, wasteful (okay so I like reinforcing my point with redundant words), and just all around sucks. But I digress.

At work I have managed to organize the voluminous amount of information that the Foundation (where I am volunteering in case you haven’t kept up to date with my blog) calls its ‘financial records’ into a comprehensive set of reports which explain the year to date. I can tell the Directors everything they need to know about their donor funds. Where they have been spent, when, on which projects, paid to whom, etc etc. I can even tell them whose salary payments are in arrears and how much funds they are going to need to get through the rest of the year.

Over the next two weeks the focus of my work will be refining the financial reports that the Directors need to provide their donors and then two, training the finance personnel. I need to explain to the accounting staff everything that I Have been doing over the past two months so that they can sustain the processes I have put in place. Hopefully, when I visit them next year (anyone want to sponsor me…huh….anyone?) they will marvel me with what they have done with my work. That’s the hope anyway.

So, if you know any other company / foundation / individual / small-business that could use some financial assistance give me a call.

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