Rust Nairobi Registration

[mattgathu]

Registering an association. (legal entity)

Tasks

• finalize required docs (like constitution) to be inline with our core ethos (@calvinkarundu )
• reach out to people familiar with registration and ask for help. (@maretekent )

[maretekent]

Registering an Association
Requirements:-

• A constiution

• Members List (minimum 10 - gov'mint names, IDs and signatures)

• Meeting minutes covering conclusive:-
  1 - Election of members to positions and
  2 - Registration of the Society

• A postal address

• Filled out and signed gov'mint issue form A and form B (please find samples attached)

• cost is about 2 KES and takes about 4 weeks to come thru (sans any potential back and forth due to erroneous application)

• Stanbic does offer FREE accounts for NON-Profit Associations (but minimum balance of 5K KES) in both local and foreign currency.
  I would recommend opening both KES and USD.

[calvinkarundu]

@maretekent I'll work on sending you the revised constitution by Monday. I'll also reach out to a lawyer who had offered to help us pro bono 😃