Hi everyone, Ollie here to share: there has been some movement to revivify the Kelowna Community Fridge! There have been three meetings now; Wednesday March 13 online, attended by 5; Thursday March 14th at Naked Café, attended by 8, and Tuesday March 26th at OKGN Lifestyle, attended by 6, I believe. At Tuesday’s, a fourth meeting was planned for this Thursday, April 4th, online.
In short, folks are working to organize a set plan of action, communication, and enough people power to continue them both! We have two possible hosts to share these plans with, currently – OKGN Lifestyle and United Church.
Meetings have been announced on the whatsapp group and word of mouth primarily, with some instagram. There is a known need to be reaching more people in a variety of ways. I know there are so many people who want to be involved! Communicating and coordinating with people more is one of the biggest needs for the Kelowna Community Fridge to happen in a sustainable way.
Roles critical to this are:
• meeting facilitators,
• meeting notetakers,
• volunteer coordination,
• online and in person communication
[social media, this website, posters, zines,
phone/texting trees, plain ol’ talking to people, etc]
• and events planning.
Please see this finely crafted link for a more extensive list
of potential committees, roles, and tasks for volunteers.
The meeting this Thursday, April 4th will 4-7pm at bit.ly/kcf-meet; everyone is encouraged to join if interested/able! This meeting will be focusing on forming the Communications Team, exploring what ways we will communicate and schedule volunteer shifts, what physical posters, online posts, and videos we want to make.
I regret to inform everyone that our e-newsletter is no longer functional; tinyletter shut down, and I did not retrieve the list of 36 subscribers before the service went offline. There has also clearly been a lack of posting to this website! I am sorry for a lack of follow through on both fronts. I really hope we can collectively organize better networks of communication, both on and offline. In a big way, that’s what this mutual aid work is about – learning the skills of knowing the people around you, how to communicate/coordinate, and actively building systems of care between us.
Thank you all for all the ways you engage in collective care and mutual aid – the interconnectivities woven between us all, and how you tend them. As is encouraged by syilx culture and ways of life, may we continually spin and twist together all of life, unifying for the well-being of all Beings of this land, these waters, this sky.
Notes taken at the March 14th meeting will follow, as well as the agenda/documents shared at them.
– Ollie
Kelowna Community Fridge 