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* Answer the basics:who,what,when,where.
Answer the basics:
 Where= Target School: Arsi Kersa primary school, Munesa district and Eteya primary school, Eteya distric, Ethiopia
Most importantly, KEEP IT CONCISE AND DIRECTLY TO THE POINT.
 Who= Target Class: kersa primary school of grade four students (Grade 4)
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* How will you work with children?
Are the children in school from June-August? no
When= between June and August 09.
 what
Are they on break? yes
Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule.
How will you work with children?
Even if students are on break between June 09 and August 09, we have arrenged with our local partner, who has a close contact and woriking with community as well as management members of the school to arrange a schedule for the avalability of student during this period
* Who is the local partner? Oromia Development Association and Asri and Bale Farmers association
 Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule
How will you follow-up?
 Deployment and training will be school based as follows:
Partner with groups capable of maintaining the deployment after you leave. Is there an academic institution, NGO, community organization, etc. willing to oversee the project after August? yes
1. Set meeting with our local partners (Oromia development association, Arsi branch), Eteya farmers coperative union, school mangement and comminity representative .
Do you have family ties in the community? yes
2. Training of selected teachers (training of traines) sponsered by the local parteners, during working hours including weekends. The traind teachers will be responsibe to support and monitor students after Augest 09.
What's going to happen when you leave? our locat partner will take over
3. Teaching students with the teachers that we traind them.
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o Include a letter of support from the local partner (this doesn't count towards your 750 word limit).
4. Handout of computers and training of students and teachers in class, after school and at weekends.
Make sure you show that together you're capable of handling the receipt of a 230 kg package of laptops and equipment
5. Continuing training and integration of XO’s after the end of August
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Where will you store the equipment during the deployment. At our locat partner store
 Who is the local partner? Eteya Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association Arsi branch
* How will this impact 6-12 yr old children?
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How will you follow-up?
All proposals must be about kids 6-12 years old and their learning.
Supervision.
A proposal gets stronger as soon as the group can show that children are the agents of change, not just the objects of teaching.
 We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching
o Stick to OLPC's Core Principles:
 Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring.
child ownership,
 capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community.
low ages,
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Include a letter of support from the local partner
saturation,
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Where will you store the equipment during the deployment.
connection, and
 At our local partner store
free and open source.
* Describe your project's financial needs.
As an attachment (that doesn't count towards the 750 word limit),
provide a brief budget for the project. Include travel costs (to Kigali and your deployment community), housing for 9 weeks (can your local partner help here? yes our local partner cover the accommedation expenses), and other project-related expenses.
Remember that OLPC will only grant up to $10,000 and that you do not need to include XOs, accessories, or Kigali accomodations in your budget.
If you have a creative project-based idea that needs funding, let us know.
o Be realistic with your budget. It will determine how much money you'll receive.
o But also be economical where possible. If we think a team's budget is wasteful or unrealistic, we will consider that in evaluating the proposal.
* How will you provide financial support after you leave? OLPC is dedicating significant time and resources to create learning environments throughout Africa! How can you show that your team can provide financial support after you leave?
o Research your university's grant programs, student associations, alumni networks, and other avenues of funding to sustain your deployment.
* Communication - do you share the language of the school or community where you will be working? yes
If not, how will this be overcome? The languge of the community is our native languge so there is no problem with this regards

Revision as of 16:58, 19 March 2009

Contents of project proposal:

 Answer the basics:  Where= Target School: Arsi Kersa primary school, Munesa district and Eteya primary school, Eteya distric, Ethiopia  Who= Target Class: kersa primary school of grade four students (Grade 4)  When= between June and August 09.  what  How will you work with children? Even if students are on break between June 09 and August 09, we have arrenged with our local partner, who has a close contact and woriking with community as well as management members of the school to arrange a schedule for the avalability of student during this period  Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule  Deployment and training will be school based as follows: 1. Set meeting with our local partners (Oromia development association, Arsi branch), Eteya farmers coperative union, school mangement and comminity representative . 2. Training of selected teachers (training of traines) sponsered by the local parteners, during working hours including weekends. The traind teachers will be responsibe to support and monitor students after Augest 09. 3. Teaching students with the teachers that we traind them. 4. Handout of computers and training of students and teachers in class, after school and at weekends. 5. Continuing training and integration of XO’s after the end of August  Who is the local partner? Eteya Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association Arsi branch  How will you follow-up? Supervision.  We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching  Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring.  capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community.  Include a letter of support from the local partner  Where will you store the equipment during the deployment.  At our local partner store

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