DEAR EDITOR – Please could you allow me to record some serious issues in the management capability of the above NGO.
My concern is in regard to the performance of the country director of ADRA.
This NGO is an agency which supposed to help Solomon Islanders that are in need of help.
As far as I understand, this organisation got their funding from aid donors and SIG and supposed to distribute to the areas that request assistance or help.
There are people (Solomon Islanders) that work in this particular organisation and these people are professionals in their areas of responsibility.
An event that was really disturbing was when the country director terminated his programme officer.
The reason was poor performance on the part of the programme officer.
The country director, if he understands the process one takes to write up a project and submit to aid donors is a very, very long process.
You do not write a project, submit it and get a response two or three weeks later, it does not happen that way.
The Programme Officer is the understudy of the country director and I am very positive that this is a direct threat to the country director's job, hence the action he has taken to terminate this officer.
This country director, if I could term him, he is a very arrogant person, what he should understand is that he has no knowledge at all about Solomon Islands.
As an Agency of SDA, I saw him breaking the Sabbath unloading timber from one of the American boats that load the timbers from Malaita.
He employs his wife to take the place of the programme officer. The wife has no work permit, hence violate our immigration laws.
I know in Australia if you are caught in such situation, you will find yourself in detention centres ready for deportation to your country.
I hope the immigration department will expedite this violation.
The country director was paid full salary whilst the programme officer was left high and dry without pay.
How can a Seventh-Day Adventist Agency organisation do this?
Where is your religion, what do you believe? I began to question the mission secretary, what is he doing?
I hope he is not indoctrinated with all the “sugar” that the country director gave him.
The country director to me is very inhuman in his dealings, all ADRA staff know this and they are scared to the teeth if they speak out.
Is this how a church agency treats its employees?
I find in church employment that you do not speak against decision the church make, the reason?
It is the church and people afraid to speak because they are appointed to do God’s work.
SDA remember the experience of King Saul in the Bible. It is a lesson for all of us (SDAs).
I come in contact with other NGOs which have no church affiliation and they are very different from ADRA.
They treat their employees with respect, if I could mention a few for example, OXFAM, WORLD VISION and Save the children they are the NGOs which I know are very positive in their organisation.
The only issue that I certainly know is that ADRA country director is building an empire for himself.
I call on the authorities especially immigration and labour department to act accordingly in regards to the violation of our regulations.
Do not listen to any suggestion they might bring. Send them back home if they do violate our laws.
I also, call on the secretary of the one mission not to be pulled by the nose.
George Suta
Honiara
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