Full Name

RAYMOND CHRISTIAN VOIGT

Title

National Treasurer (and Past National President)

Birth Date

21 March 1949

Village

Pesega, Faleata

Gender

Male

Religion

Pesega Christian Fellowship, Vaitele Road, Pesega.

Organisation Name

Beekeepers' Association of Samoa Inc., (BASI) since inception 1997.

Year selected to be a Board Member

10 Years Volunteer to SUNGO since March 1998.

1998-1999: 1 year as Executive Council Member &

SUNGO Rep to SBEC's Stakeholder Training &

Development Committee;

1999-2001: 2 years on the Management Committee—National

Treasurer;

2001-2003: 2 years—Management Committee—National

President (6 member Management

Committee dissolved);

2003-2005: 8 months as National Vice President, and

approximately 14 months as Acting National

President;

2005-2007: 2 years—National President (Executive

Council reduced from 17 to 11 members);

2007-2008: 1 year Executive Council Member.

Affiliations

(Name all your affiliation)

1. Beekeepers' Assn of Samoa Inc.

2. Certified Organic Farming WIBDI Programme:

a. Fruit trees,

b. Vanilla &

c. Apiculture.

3. Pesega Christian Fellowship, Vaitele Road, Pesega; a breakaway from the Apia church of Christ, Vaimoso-uta, serving the Fusi church at Safotulafai, and Samusu church at Aleipata.

Background Information

Current - 1995:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Essie's Mart & Tyre Repairs, Vaitele Road, Pesega.

§  Proprietor/Manager.

Current - 1982

Estates Administrator

2004-1991:

BRESS Farms

§  Piggery (Concentrated farming).  Manager & part time farmer.

2000 – 1978:

Shell Co (Pacific Islands) Limited, Registered Resident Agent, Samoa.

1998 – 1991:

BP Oil/Mobil Oil Joint Petroleum Shipping Arrangement: OIL SURVEYOR verifying Bulk Oil Cargo grades ex MR Tanker Discharge--Independent Oil Surveyor Pre-discharge & Outturn Reports for Apia and Pago Pago, American Samoa.

1995-1991:

1989 – 1991:

Union Public Transport Co-operative Society (Taxi Union Inc.,)  Samoa's largest Service Station Retail

Service Station: Operations Manager.

Mobil Oil Australia Ltd, Apia, Samoa.

§  Terminal Manager and Manager Samoa.

§  American Samoa—overseeing Agency operations—a travel posting.

§  MR Tanker Discharge Office Apia and (including LCTs at Asau) and American Samoa—a travel posting.

§  Oils Testing Officer.

1989 – 1967:

Shell Co (Pacific Islands) Ltd.

§  1986-9:   Manager Samoa, graduating work-wise from Acting Depot Superintendent, Depot Manager, Apia.

§  1986-8: Travel posting Am. Samoa MR Tanker discharging and LC Tanker Back-loading Operations.

§  1985:  Seconded to manage/oversee the Samoa National Petroleum Supply Contract at Regional Head Office (RHO) level to monitor the other 2 Opposition Oil Companies who also have RHOs in Suva, Fiji.

§  1984:  National Petroleum Supply utilising the Opposition Mobil Oil and British Petrol as Service Agents.

§  1983-5: Travel posting Vavau Depot Tonga LCT Discharge Operations.

§  1983 Nuie Island Bulk Storage, Engineering Audit & Reporting, setting up storage and stock reconciliation procedures—a travel posting over 2 years.

§  1978-85: Travel posting, Apia based Liaison Officer for Shell Pacific Islands and Shell Company of Australia—ground work negotiations for a potential Shell Agent in American Samoa.

§  1978-84: Sogi Depot Manager.

§  1976-7: Seconded Vida Point, Lautoka, Walu Bay, Suva Terminals and Regional head Office, Suva, Fiji.

§  1975  Acting Depot Superintendent, Sogi, Apia.

§  1970-4: Sogi Depot Dispatcher / Gate-checker / Stocks clerk.

§  1967:   Starting as the Accounts Clerk, Cashier and Sales & Proceeds clerk in the Burns Philp (South Seas) Co. Ltd., Shell Co. (P. I.) Ltd., Agency Office, Apia.

1967 – 1965:

Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Apia Samoa.

§  Part-time Office Boy

Current - 2000:

Current 2004:

Current:

Current - 2007:

2007:

2008 - 2007:

2007 - 2006:

Current - (February) 2007:

2007 - 2005:

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2007 - 2004:

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2006 - 2004:

2004:

Current - 2003:

Current - 1997:

COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES:

SUNGO Representative to Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment (MNRE) National Steering Committees and Capacity Building Training such as:

o  National Bio-diversity Strategic Action Plan (NBSAP)

o  NBSAP Review

o  International Waters project

o  Climate Change (Current)

o  Genetic Modification/Bio-Safety

o  Myna Bird Eradication Committee (Current)

o  Asau Draught Prone Area Farming Project (Current)

o  Land decertification degradation

o  Etc., etc.

Representing SUNGO to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee on Samoa's ascension to WTO and negotiation on other Trade Agreement such as: EU's EPA, PICTA & PACER.

Samoa Qualification Authority (SQA), Agricultural Sector.

National Export Strategy Committee.

Lobbying to stop Land Registration Bill (February), and Police Power Bill (May) until further Community Awareness.

Lobby Group: People Against Switching Sides (Right Hand Drive to LHD)

National Health Promotion Policy Programme.

Vice Chairman National Steering Committee (NSC) Global Environment Facility / Small Grants Program (GEF/SPG).

Chairperson NSC Committee GEF/SPG.

National InterNet Communication Technology (ICT) Committee.

Samoa Infrastructure Asset Management Project 2 (SIAM 2) World bank Programme.

National Energy Policy Committee.

NGO Representative on the Programme Coordinating Committee (PCC) for NZAID SUNGO Support Fund & NGO Core Fund.

EU-Mirco Projects Aid Committee.

Unitec NFP Management Course: Co-trainer on Culture and Values Module.

Invasive Species Committee (PILN & SNITT).

Beekeepers' Association of Samoa Inc (BASI)—Focus: Reviving Honey Industry; Collaborating with Women In Business Development Inc., in setting up beehives in the community;  Collaborated with the Office of the Attorney General to put in place the Customs Prohibition Order on Imports 2000.  Advocating an Apiaries Act to protect the growing Industry and Samoa's Honeybee stock from introduced diseases with the Ministry of Agriculture & Office of the Attorney General.

Treasurer; Secretary/Treasurer; Treasurer; Projects Coordinator.

2008 -2001:

Lagomeli (Honeybee) Society Inc—Community Networking.  Example: Uafato Fagaloa Showcase Project.  Collaborating with other NGOs on community projects: - Treasurer.

Now deregistered.

2003 - 1996:

Flower Growers' Association of Samoa Inc—Focus: Cut-flowers and propagation: Treasurer, Secretary.

Current - 1996:

Writing weekly Sunday Religious Page for the Sunday Samoan until 1999, and continuing with the Sunday Newsline since.

2007:

2003:

2000:

1993 - 1985:

Ambassador of Pease Award for the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) - Dr. Sun Myung Moon, Founder, Seoul South Korea.

Ambassador of Pease Award for the Inter-religious and International Federation of Word Peace (IIFWP) - Dr. Sun Myung Moon, Founder, Seoul South Korea.

Trainer for SUNGO at the SUNGO Secretariat 2 x 3 half-day workshops in Samoan for Civil Based Organisations (CBOs) on Records Management and Filing.

Rotary Club, Apia: Projects Director 1992.