Collaborative GrantProposal:Background-information
The initial email for grant proposal collaboration went out to the people with whom I, Joanne Clemente, have contact in Uganda. Since I am involved with the TATS organization who hosted my trip in Uganda, I contacted Larry Maka.
I also contacted people from Makerere University (Connie Masembe, the Dean) and Kampala University (Daniel Bwanika, Director of Development). I also asked Larry Maka to find a lead person at Kisubi Brothers University as I have been in contact with some teachers there. I also contacted my colleague and travel partner, Dr. Brenda Dressler, who gave HIV/AIDS prevention lectures to teachers and students while we were in Uganda last June. My contact at OLPC where the XO project originated is Adam Holt who passed our inquiry to interested parties. I also contacted Lidet Tilahun who is an OLPC director located in Ethiopia and has much experience in deployments in Africa. She has suggested partnering with WarChild.
I also reached out to two more colleagues: 1- Elizabeth Ross from Harvard, who has successfully deployed an XO project in Uganda (Kasiisi Project) and who is currently in Uganda was also contacted. 2-Kenneth Mwandara who has a Kampala based Technology Center called Silver Shadows who has helped with training and XO repairs.
Another colleague, Nick Doiron, then contacted me as he was a volunteer with Elizabeth Ross’ Kasiisi project. He suggested I contact the NGO , Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association (AGYA) (Divinity is lead person) who has since expressed interest in participating and Stuart Campo from Straight Talk magazine (heavy emphasis on HIV/AIDS content). I also reached out to Global Pulse, a think tank in Kampala at his suggestion.
This is how it began.
Since then, many more people have been contacted, many interested in research. While research can be one aspect of this grant application, the main goal is to empower vulnerable children, orphans, many of whom have been victimized by HIV/AIDS.
Thus far, then, we have interest from Kampala University, and Kisubi Brothers as the lead person there will be Vincent Ssekate, the Dean.
So, as of January 12, 2011, this is the background information. From this point forward, we should collaborate on the main page. As people add their contributions, I will edit and place content into different sections of our proposal.
