Bolivia OLE

Donations

If my country made good use of its resources, we would be all doing great.

As things are, we have one of the richest countries in the planet, oil, gas, minerals, woods, water, grasslands, etc., etc., etc., we basically have already any resource you could mention.

BUT we end up having one of the poorest people in the Americas, often running neck-to-neck with Haiti as the one with the worst economic indicators. Nowadays some of those indicators "seem" to look better, thanks to huge gas exports, but, remember, that influx of money takes its while to reach the common people, as it is mostly handled by international companies, and the government - and will now be much less, as international energy prices fall.

I am convinced that the goal of a computer-assisted education project in Bolivia is not to produce more engineers, lawyers, artists, not even to merely produce better ones, because at best at the end we just will be exporting the brightest of them to the North - which is only fair, as we so far fail to assure that effort entails success. The goal has to be to achieve a change in the parameters of relationships, where honesty in handling resources is paramount and becomes a normal way of doing things. To achieve that, we need transparency in handling funds and materials.

Though I can always wish, I do not expect to be handling many millions, at least not soon. Meanwhile I can make sure that what we get is carefully and publicly accounted for. Doing my best that what is given to my people gets to my people, and is used as wisely as I can make it happen.

Money

_{please do not modify this section, so as to keep data accurate - Yamaplos 23:36, 11 December 2008 (UTC)}

amount USD	from	status	received	comments
$ 350	parents of Veritas Academy, personal donation to fund Yama's work	cash	Dec 2007	one XO computer off Craig's list purchased
$300	donor requested anonymity, personal donation to fund Yama's work	cash	June 2008	paid for one XO computer, solar panels
$ 337.99	OLE, Inc.	Check 205	Dec 12 08	reimbursement Nov trip to Boston
$2.000	OLE, Inc.	check 204	Dec 12 08	January trip to Bolivia
$2.000	OLE, Inc	promised	Jan 2009?

Donated Computers

Please click here for information on how to donate OLPC XO computers for Bolivia

to respect the privacy of donors I am only indicating the location of origin and serial number.

_{please do not modify the following table, so as to keep data accurate - 70.116.14.213 20:43, 29 December 2008 (UTC)}

serial #	from	status	updated on
CSN 747 01 FF9	Northville, MI	received, tested OK	Dec 11 08
CSN 74 802 A74	Forest Park, IL	received, tested OK	Dec 29 08
CSN 750 00 C07 CSN 749 02 252	Avon, CO	received, tested OK	Dec 19 08
SHC 839 04 924	Blacksburg, VA	Received, tested OK	Dec 27 08
CSN 74 702 D13	Topanga, CA	Received, tested OK	Dec 29 08

Other Computers

I have received several computers not as an outright donation, but either on loan or to be used for research, and I own 2 myself. To keep track of things, the information is below.

_{please do not modify the following table, so as to keep data accurate - 70.116.14.213 20:43, 29 December 2008 (UTC)}

serial #	where now	status	comments
?	La Paz, Bolivia	personal, Yama's	on loan to Gobierno Municipal de La Paz, Dec 29 08
SHF 80 800 93C	Austin	personal, Yama's	main work laptop
CSN 74 702 9E7	Austin	developer's program	to pursue projector research (broken case). Received Nov 08
CSN 74 803 DBB	Austin	personal long-term loan to Yama	from M.G. since July 08