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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 an education project in Bolivia that uses computers is not to produce more engineers, lawyers, artists, not even to merely produce better ones of those, 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 honest opportunities where effort entails success. The goal has to be to achieve a change in the parameters of relationships, where honesty in handling resources and relating to others 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 little money 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)}

in USD	out USD		status	date	comments
$ 350	$ 350	parents of Veritas Academy, personal donation to fund Yama's work	cash	Dec 2007	one XO computer off Craig's list purchased Jun '08 ($270), expenses in Indonesia
$300	$300	donor requested anonymity, personal donation to fund Yama's work	cash	June 2008	paid for one XO computer($200), solar panels ($100)
$ 337.99	$ 337.99	OLE, Inc.	Check 205	Dec 12 08	Nov trip to Boston
$2.000		OLE, Inc.	check 204	Dec 12 08	January trip to Bolivia
$2.000		OLE, Inc	check 211	Jan 13 09	January trip to Bolivia

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 - Yamaplos 23:46, 5 January 2009 (UTC)}

serial #	from	status	updated on
CSN 747 01 FF9	Northville, MI	teacher training	Dec 11 08
CSN 74 802 A74	Forest Park, IL	teacher training	Dec 29 08
CSN 750 00 C07 CSN 749 02 252	Avon, CO	teacher training	Dec 19 08
SHC 839 04 924	Blacksburg, VA	teacher training	Dec 27 08
CSN 74 702 D13	Topanga, CA	teacher training	Dec 29 08
CSN 74 901 406	De Pere, MI	teacher training	Jan 3 09
CSN 74 801 35F	Seattle, WA	teacher training	Jan 5 09
SHC 844 02 7E2	Thornton, CO	teacher training	Jan 8 09
CSN 749 02 8F0	Flagstaff, AZ	teacher training	Jan 9 09
SHF 807 01 BF0	Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada	teacher training	Jan 14 09

Other Computers

I have received several other 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 - Yamaplos 20:00, 4 January 2009 (UTC)}

serial #	where now	status	comments
?	La Paz, Bolivia	developer's program - received with bad battery, Aug 08	on loan to Gobierno Municipal de La Paz, Dec 29 08
SHF 80 800 93C	Austin	personal, Yama's	Yama's main work laptop
CSN 74 702 9E7	Austin	developer's program - received with broken case, Nov 08	to pursue projector research - Jan-5 to Jan-15 on loan for Science fair spectrophotometer XO project
CSN 74 803 DBB	Austin	personal long-term loan to Yama	from M.G. since July 08. project
CSN 74 902 494	Austin	personal, Yama's	currently used for projector research, disassembled. Battery used for the one on loan to GMLP