OLPCorps CMU RIT AN Nigeria

Proposal

We will deploy at St. Paul's Primary School in Nigeria, which has 420 students. Many of the students are orphans or from poor families. The proprietor of the school is related to one of our group members. We will work closely with the proprietor and teachers to integrate the XO laptop into the daily lessons in Math, Social Studies, English, and Science. In addition, we will start a program to teach the children blogging and video blogging. The program will 1) raise awareness of African issues around the world and 2) teach the children to write and communicate effectively. We will create the blogs / video blogs with a content management system such as Drupal and host them on a dedicated virtual server such as Amazon EC2. We will cross post the content to established sites such as YouTube.

About St. Paul's

saint Paul Africa Nusery /primary school Ata Ediene Abak Local Government Area Akwa Ibom state Nigeria was established in 1990 by Elder Joshua Peter Umoh. He saw the need of children education as a builder building laying a foundation before building the house. He hard passion for the poor and orphans in the community and this also prompt him to established this school to help the poor. The school was mainly gain support from Churches and community members. The community and the church also see the need of children education from 2 years to 12 years as the basic foundation and the support the school wholeheartedly.The main occupation in my community is farming, while some of the children will dig sand from the rivers to sell for construction of the house.there are also petty traders. the cash crop there is Palm tree, coconut,coa-coa. The food crop are cassava, plantain, yam,rice, beans, banana, fruit like mango pineapple,pears apple quaver, orange etc. After the death of Elder Joshua, I (Okon Sunday David)and the proprietor's son (Mfon Joshua) continue to manage the school till it reach the total number of 420 students,the parents in the community see the need for their children to be in school. In the year 2006 I left the school to study in Africa Nazarene university for Bachelor of Theology. I realize that high education is impossible without the knowledge of computer. I fail nearly all my exam because I did not had basic knowledge for computer to do my assignment. It was a big shame for me because in Kenya nearly all student who came to university have basic knowledge of computer. I started thinking about my the student in saint Paul's Africa Nursery school how their education will be valuable without computer training. I realize that education, office, home, business, technology, calculation, etc need computer, and to succeed in today's life one must acquire knowledge of computer. The computer literate will help Government to have standard and quality service in the society. it provide transparency in any work. the child will gain self employment, have job opportunity to serve in the Government office. They will not suffer in university on how to write term paper. it help to eradicate poverty in the community and give children hope for future. it will give children hope for the better future and open their mind to cash global vision. there will be uniformity and happy life in the society. The computer will be introduce to the children and also to teach them on how it relate to all the subject such as (Mathematics, English,Geography, History, Agriculture, Account, Economics, statistic,Business study computer application,) as the basic foundation.

Group Members

• Okon Sunday David is a Theology student at Africa Nazarene University. He has worked at St. Paul's before and is related to the proprietor. St. Paul's is located in his home village.
• Becca Nelson is a student at RIT and has extensive experience working with non-profits in Africa. She has specifically worked at computer training centers in Kenya.
• Bryant Lee holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has created and maintained previous Web 2.0 sites and has managed computer servers. He has published numerous scientific papers. www.cs.cmu.edu/~bryantl

Budget

for the three team member to travel to Abak in Akwa Ibom state Nigeria,with 100 laptop and return will cost $6000 the feeding from June to August = $1000 Internet connection $500 Toiletry =$300 Projector=$700 miscellaneous $600 Generator $500 Couple, plug-in, socket and wiring $200