OLPCorps AmericanUniversityofParis Cameroon

Introduction

OLPCorps Project Proposal for Cameroon

We have had the pleasure to be in contact with Ajomuzu Collette Bekaku, Executive Director of CAPEC, the Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child www.capecam.org. This non-governmental, non-profit organization has agreed to collaborate with myself, Asia ANIWANOU and Christoph ESSIKPE on the “One Laptop per Child” project. The project’s main objective with the collaboration of our local partner- CAPEC is the education of orphans and underprivileged children through the use of laptops that will create a lasting effect on their lives. Based in Nkolfoulou, a small village 12km outskirt of Yaoundé the capital of Cameroon, CAPEC is in charge of a school for underprivileged children called Bitame Lucia Nursery and Primary school- www.nklofoulou.org. This is where the operation will take place, allowing us to have contact with 100 orphans and underprivileged kids between the ages of 6 -12 years old during the holiday program organized by CAPEC from July 1st to 30th 2009.