ST.
AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA
P.O
BOX 307, MWANZA
SAUT
STUDENTS PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSOCIATION (SSPRA)
(Tel: +255755154215, +255765058711,
+255712414444 Email: sspra2011@gmail.com)
REPORT
OF COMMUNITY DAY CEREMONY HELD ON 29 NOVEMBER 2013 AT RAILA ODINGA GROUNDS.
INTRODUCTION
Community day is the
special day established by the university aimed at meeting all university
community and other public around Mwanza especially Malimbe society. Community
day is normally conducted one day before university graduation every year in
which all departments get chance to show what they doing within the community.
2013/2014 Community Day
were prepared by the students themselves under students government ( Sautso) in
collaboration with SAUT Students Public Relations Association. The themes of
the event was “Linking SAUT with business
companies to achieve excellence education”.
Community day events started at 9:00 am where the guest of honor was Rt.
Rev. John Ndimbo, the chair man of University Council arrived community day
grounds. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
AND ADVERTISING
During event of
community day all activities concern the department of public relations were under
SAUT Public Relations Association (SSPRA) SSPRA. These students organized
themselves under the department for the assistance Ms. Adeline Mpuya and Mr Frank
Katabi who helped and ensure all plans and activities performed in good way.
The honorable guest
attended in our tent at 1:00 pm where they saw what we prepared and appraised
for our good work before leave to the tent of mass communication students.
Where we prepared key holders, handkerchiefs which contain university logo and
dedicative words also we had brochures, flies, and other Pr tools of
communication. The guest of honor was interested with our activities and
promised to assist us to have our own laboratory so that we can monitor and
publicize all activity pertaining to Public Relation.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF COMMUNITY DAY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
RELATIONS AND ADVERTISING.
The following were the
achievements during the community day ceremony of 29-11-2013.
1 .Exhibition was very
good since many people satisfied with what and how public students explained
different publications and other skills of their career.
2. Many people imparted
knowledge by public students through oral explanation and written publications.
3 .Fund raising through
selling the university holders, SSPRA holders and hand chiefs
4. Rectruitment of new
members joined SSPRA. This was mainly because of good work done by SSPRA members
in which many other students impressed therefore join the association.
5. SSPRA was promised
the office and laboratory by the university management especially after
realizing that many university events have been prepared by the SSPRA members.
WEAKNESS FOR DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ADVERTISING DURING COMMUNITY DAY
1. Delaying of budget .Budget
for preparation of community day especially tent of public relations was came
very late led the failure of some important things e.g priting of soft
publications.
2. Distribution of
tents was very late led to failure of proper preparation of tent to see the way
we planned since tents were distributed the day of events.
3. Lack of public
communication tools like burners from the department.
4. General time table
was not followed accordance to prior arrangement because guests were supposed
to reach at grounds at 2:30 but they reached at 10:30 am. This led guest use
short time in our tent.
5. Insufficient budget.
In spite of budget being very late also it was not enough to facilitate all
activities planned by responsible people. This resulted SSPRA use the
association fund to cover some deficit.
6. Lack of tents. Generally
tents were not enough resulted some associations to be combined into one tent
and some departments given small tents something threaten the success of event
at general.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Ø The
department and SSPRA should prepare burners, brochures and other publication
that shows and dedicate the history, functions, and activities of the department and SSPRA as the part of
improvement.
Ø We
advise the department and management at general to make all preparation early
especially on the community day environment
Ø Fund
should be increased to fulfill all demands of all preparation so as to avoid
the uses of SSPRA fund in the exhibition
Ø We
also suggest the involvement of external companies to support the event as the
theme of event was dedicating to these companies
FINANCIAL EXPENDITURE
DURING THE COMMUNITY DAY
|
No
|
Name
of item
|
Cost
|
|
1
|
Ribborns
2@5000
|
10,000
|
|
2
|
Maputo
30@200
|
6,000
|
|
3
|
Pins
4 boxes@500
|
2,000
|
|
4
|
Mkasi
1@3000
|
3,000
|
|
5
|
Soletape
4@500
|
2,000
|
|
6
|
Water
cartons 5@5000
|
20,000
|
|
7
|
Publications
|
10,000
|
|
8
|
Decoration
|
20,000
|
|
9
|
Transporport
and communication
|
10,000
|
|
10
|
Extension
wire 1@10,000
|
10,000
|
|
11
|
Manila
paper 3@2000
Grand total from
university
General expenditure Total
Thus 18,700 was taken
from SSPRA
|
6,000
84,800
103,500
18,700
|
CONCLUSION
We appreciate the concern of everyone who
contributed the successes of the event particularly the department of Public
Relations and Advertising under supervision of Ms. Adeline Mpuya, Mr. Lila
Mandu and Mr. Frank Katabi An all SSPRA members.
Yours,
………………………… ………………………………
Mbwaga Aman E Sing’ambi
Athanas Y
SSPRA Secretary SSPRA
Chairperson
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