Recognition of the Institutions of Elder-hood in Luo Culture, Spiritual and Religious Leaders, Professionals, Youth and Women is Pivot efforts to development structure for the greater Luo Community Everywhere (LUOCOME)  and Diaspora Village Committee (DVC) to the Clan/Village level at Luoland Regions. 

 

Luo Council of Elders and Cultural Groups, Spiritual & Religious Leaders, Professionals, Youth & Women frontiers across the Luo communities everywhere should be also,  recruited in the Luo Community Everywhere (LUOCOME) to strengthen the vision of Diaspora Village Committees(DVC) development initiatives in their respective Clans/Villages.

 

The Luos Elders are the reservoirs of knowledge on historical events and the provide of moral guidelines in our families.And therefore for major development or crisis managements in our clans/villages, the elder-hood institutions makes the final and unchallengeable decisions. The DVC, representatives are their sons and daughters, fully depends and believe on their guidance for directions on matters pertaining to the ancestral homeland development. The Elders are own the land and properties which they are solely obligated to allocate for inheritance of our families and the cureent caregivers of HIV/AIDS orphans, widows. This facts qualify them automatically as the backbone of the Clan/Village development,  and their participation will indeed lift the moral of the luos in diaspora,the professionals, youth and women to fully support all the initiatives of DVC and the Community Based Organizations (CBO)/ Faith Based Organizations (FBO).

 

The Elders Councils will provide an umbrella for the CBO/FBO from education, health, Culture, Environment, Agricultural and many other. Kindly note also most of these elders are retired senior civil servants or educationalist, some are ex-diaspora dwellers.

 

The Clans/Villages professionals should be involved at their village levels with their Elders development groups,  to assist in designing the strategic development plans in consultations with the Elders, advising the CBO/FBO, offering the executive expertise in writing the concept development papers, participate in the implementation, research, Monitoring and Evaluation. Kindly note that the luo professionals are ones maning the high institutions in the our countries and in diaspora, our  capability is  unquestionable.

 

The Spiritual/Religious leaders have always been there for spiritual nourishment, have bear the burden of humanitarian, assisted in development and coordinating the Missionaries and investors in luo regions. The Faith Based Organizations, from mainline to indigenous should be encourage to continue playing the  major rolls in backing the development initiatives at Clans/Villages, their availability to minister on spiritual and physical crisis in our community as for decades been visible. By incorporating the FBO we will win the confidence of diaspora and the locals in our villages.

 

The  children. youths and women are most  vulnerable for abuses and  exploitations by the corrupt systems, are in deer need of attention, they must be cooperated in all the initiatives and their CBO identities must be clearly define for the purpose of categorically attend to their pressing needs in our clan/villages.

 

The LUOCOME, may have to corporately work with the already existing, elders, professionals, spiritual/religious,youth, women groups in our villages strengthening them to create a common forum with an element of coordination's to the DVC. They will be able send positive signals to all their villagers in diaspora to unite and set up DVC.

 

I hope that this system will work for all our LUOCOME, in all the regions across African. I will sincerely remain, hoping that my appeal will reach to all the luos in diaspora.

 

Be Blessed,

Jadolo Okoth Otura.

LUOCOME-CANADA