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* Fast Review of the 3 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please
join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals:
1. OLPC 4 Geospatial Learning - Munster, Germany
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47210
http://gi-at-school.de (blog coming soon)
Requests 2 XO's over 8 months
Project Objectives:
Developing and testing software module(s) within the context of
"Understanding space & environment using Geoinformation" in primary
schools
2. Home Schools Project - Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47311
http://www.afghan-satellite-teachers.net
Requests 9 XO's over 12 months
Project Objectives:
Our objective is to bring education to the one-half of Afghan children
who are unschooled and for whom there will be no school available,
according to the Strategic Plan of the Afghanistan Ministry of
Education, before they grow into illiterate adults. MTSA has been the
chief voice (if not indeed the only one) advocating for these children
that they be provided with technologically available educational
solutions, including in particular the OLPC laptop computer.
MTSA seeks to deploy the XO laptop in "home schools" or "community
schools" in rural areas of Afghanistan. The laptop computers will serve
both boys and girls who have otherwise little hope of achieving
literacy. Based on the experience in India with computers made available
to slum kids without instruction (the Hole in the Wall Project),
children in Afghanistan should be provided with the XO laptop even
before the government can provide them with a trained teacher and before
they can have a bricks and mortar school building.
What does the future look like for these children today growing up
illiterate in the mountains of Afghanistan? The girls will be married
off at 12 or 13 to become illiterate mothers before they have become
fully women, while the boys will follow their fathers as hardscrabble
farmers or as cannon fodder for local war lords or for the Taliban.
OLPC and the XO, with our help and yours, can dramatically change this
reality.
3. Vung Vieng Fishing Village Laptop Project - Bai Tu Long Bay, Ha Long
Bay, Vietna
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47367
http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44253
Requests 10 XO's + 2 parts machines over (undetermined) months
Project Objectives:
This village is very poor. During certain times of the year, it is
not unusual for families have only two meals a day. Only 25% of the
young adults and adults in the village can read. The Vung Vieng
Village School has very few school supplies. Responsibility for
family is a very high priority. Young adult and adult children support
take care of their parents and grandparents. Primary /measurable/
goals of the Vung Vieng Fishing Village Laptop Project are:
1. To increase literacy and computer literacy among children and
adults in the community;
2. To prepare a higher percentage of village children for
secondary school and work opportunities in and outside of the
village;
3. To achieve an increase in subsistence income for the families,
and improved child nutrition and health through the visibility
and partners of the Vung Vieng Fishing Village Laptop Project
and by education gains.
4. To create a pool of home grown "young adults" and "adults" who
can contribute to the future financial support, education,
governance, and community life of the Vung Vieng Fishing Village.
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