OLPCorps RfS
Dear friends,
Starting this Spring, we started the OLPCorps program to stimulate grassroots laptop
deployments in Africa. We solicited proposals from student teams around the world
interested in carrying out a small OLPC deployment in Africa. Teams were required to
have a relationship with a local NGO that plans to support their work in the future.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps
30 of the teams were selected to receive 100 laptops and reimbursement of up to $10,000
of expenses. The program is being run out of the OLPC center in Kigali, Rwanda this
summer. Representatives from every team and from a number of countries are attending a
ten-day learning and deployment workshop in the Kigali OLPC center during the first week
of June.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_teams
[link to blog post]
This is another step towards realizing our vision of improving access to connected
laptops for students in the least developed parts of the world. [This year the program
was made possible with generous support from <sponsors>, but] we need your support to
help this project expand in future years. Please help us build on these efforts with a
donation.
http://laptop.org/en/participate/ways-to-give.shtml
And help us build our local networks -- spread the word to people you know interested in
the 17 countries deploying XOs!
Sincerely,
<signed>
for the OLPCorps team
