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* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Davidgreisen David Greisen]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Davidgreisen David Greisen]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Pascal Pascal Scheffers]
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Pascal Pascal Scheffers]
* Matt Keller -- worked for World Food Programme directly, now Europe coordinator for OLPC through World Food Programme

== Where we are in terms of getting together awesome health materials ==

As of 19:18, 19 December 2007 (EST) based on milking Sj's brain

* We want materials for kids to teach them about health, their bodies, what it means to get sick
* Material that parents can get through their kids when kids take them home
** If they kids can learn it, they can teach their families
* Groups to include
** UNICEF
*** Materials for kids, like pictures
** WHO
*** Prevention kits for epidemics (e.g. cholera)
** World Food Programme
*** Agriculture
*** Water testing manuals -- made for field workers but simple enough for amateurs
** PIH
*** Kits for health workers

* Ways they help
** Free rights to books when possible
*** Many organizations have materials for health workers but not for kids
*** Have to overcome the legal barriers
**** UNICEF has been extra awesome at getting over these
**** Explain OLPC's mission
**** No special licenses
**** No copyrights
**** Each country can decide for themselves how to make a handbook from the pool of materials appropriate for that country's needs
** Avdocacy & outreach
** Encouraging others to get laptops

Revision as of 00:18, 20 December 2007

Summary of me

  • Helping coordinate content pertaining to health
    • safe drinking water
    • sanitation & hygene
    • HIV/AIDS
    • other infectious diseases
    • childbirth
    • women's health
  • Languages
    • Spanish (fluent)
    • Russian (native speaker)

I wish I knew you

Where we are in terms of getting together awesome health materials

As of 19:18, 19 December 2007 (EST) based on milking Sj's brain

  • We want materials for kids to teach them about health, their bodies, what it means to get sick
  • Material that parents can get through their kids when kids take them home
    • If they kids can learn it, they can teach their families
  • Groups to include
    • UNICEF
      • Materials for kids, like pictures
    • WHO
      • Prevention kits for epidemics (e.g. cholera)
    • World Food Programme
      • Agriculture
      • Water testing manuals -- made for field workers but simple enough for amateurs
    • PIH
      • Kits for health workers
  • Ways they help
    • Free rights to books when possible
      • Many organizations have materials for health workers but not for kids
      • Have to overcome the legal barriers
        • UNICEF has been extra awesome at getting over these
        • Explain OLPC's mission
        • No special licenses
        • No copyrights
        • Each country can decide for themselves how to make a handbook from the pool of materials appropriate for that country's needs
    • Avdocacy & outreach
    • Encouraging others to get laptops