# CeloArabia DAO - Funding and Operations Proposal **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance Proposals\ **Tags:** regional-daos, funding\ **Created:** [November 26, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/celoarabia-dao-funding-and-operations-proposal/9520 "2024-11-26T21:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![CeloColombia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.celo.org/celocolombia/32/9767_2.png) [@CeloColombia](https://forum.celo.org/u/CeloColombia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.celo.org/t/celoarabia-dao-funding-and-operations-proposal/9520/12 "2024-12-17T16:29:03Z")
Hello @CeloArabia nice to see you pushing forward with this proposal, but we dont want to be the fact why you are taking this way. Just to clarify, we went through Celo Governance due to a speciffic factor that was the inmediate launch of $cCOP token. > [@Celo Regional DAOs: A Retrospective on 2024](https://forum.celo.org/t/celo-regional-daos-a-retrospective-on-2024/9619/2): > > We pursued **direct governance funding** as the **CeloPG budget was fully allocated for 2024**. Delaying until 2025 wasn’t an option for us, as it was essential to begin operations to support [**$cCOP** , Colombia’s first decentralized stablecoin 🇨🇴💰](https://forum.celo.org/t/launch-of-ccop-colombia-s-first-decentralized-stablecoin) But as you can see in [our comment in the Regionals DAOs Retrospective](https://forum.celo.org/t/celo-regional-daos-a-retrospective-on-2024/9619/2) we are looking forward to be included in future CeloPG > [@Celo Regional DAOs: A Retrospective on 2024](https://forum.celo.org/t/celo-regional-daos-a-retrospective-on-2024/9619/2): > > 💢 While this was necessary to ensure timely execution, we look forward to being considered for future **CeloPG Budgets**. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.celo.org/t/celoarabia-dao-funding-and-operations-proposal/9520)._