OLPCorps Africa
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About OLPCorps
100 XOs, Hardware, $10K stipend, 10-day training in Kigali, Rwanda, and an entire summer in an African country of your choice. Sound too good to be true? Well, it's not. OLPC has a revolutionary vision: an XO for every child. Crazy, right? Not crazy enough, since it's becoming a reality. Country after country, children with XOs are learning more, finding new avenues of expression, and connecting to a global network of like-minded children. But we can't achieve this dream alone, which is why we need your help in turning this idea into a global movement. Through OLPCorps Africa, we'll provide the tools and resources to get you started if you can provide the time, energy, and dedication to change the world. This is a student movement, a learning movement, an education movement...The OLPC Movement.
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How to Write a Project Proposal
Thinking about starting your proposal? Not sure where to start? This section should answer some of your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions & collaborate - we're better as a team. Keep in mind, up to 100 teams are receiving 100 XOs each.
In the end, all teams will be working together for 10 days in Kigali before deploying. Our goal is to form a network of African deployments which support learning for years to come. Although the application for 2010 is not yet open, consider the following suggestions we've outlined below before writing your proposal.
Proposal formatting:
- Proposals must be in English.
- Length of Proposal must not exceed 750 words.
- Hyper-linked text is allowed throughout the proposal.
Proposal contents:
- Answer the basics: who, what, when, where. Most importantly, KEEP IT CONCISE AND DIRECTLY TO THE POINT.
- How will you work with children? Are the children in school from June-August? Are they on break? Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule.
- Who is the local partner? How will you follow-up? 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? Do you have family ties in the community? What's going to happen when you leave?
- Include a letter of support from the local partner (this doesn't count towards your 750 word limit). Make sure you show that together you're capable of handling the receipt of a 230 kg package of laptops and equipment. Where will you store the equipment during the deployment?
- How will this impact 6-12 yr old children? All proposals must be about kids 6-12 years old and their learning. A proposal gets stronger as soon as the group can show that children are the agents of change, not just the objects of teaching.
- Incorporate the OLPCorps Learning Guide into your project proposal.
- Stick to OLPC's Core Principles: child ownership, low ages, saturation, connection, and 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?), 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 accommodations in your budget. If you have a creative project-based idea that needs funding, let us know.
- Be realistic with your budget. It will determine how much money you'll receive.
- 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?
- 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? If not, how will this be overcome?
Note: Upon acceptance, you will be asked to provide proof as a student. This will be verified by the dean of your department, for instance.
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Teams
Lesotho 2010
See our proposal at OLPCorps Muskingum College Lesotho 2010.
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Positive Planet
Please see our updated Wiki page: [[1]] for our newest proposal and information. Thank you!
We are a non-profit organization that based in New York City and in the Rakai and Masaka Districts in Uganda that creates partnerships between the US and Ugandan schools. Our primary goals are to improve the educational infrastructure of the Ugandan schools and to have the US students see that they can make a positive impact on the world. Over the past 6 years we've raised about $90,000, all of which has been used to build classrooms, water tanks, sanitation facilities, desks, repair roofs, and other similar projects that have affected close to 3,000 Ugandan students.
We have encouraged our students to communicate through pen pal letters but feel it would be much more powerful and a lot quicker if the communication could be through e-mail. We were planning to seek old computer donations and try to set up a computer lab at one of the schools this summer. We just heard about the OLPC program and are very excited about the possibilities of it really impacting our communities. We have strong roots in the community and believe the work could succeed. We would love to talk to a team of students interested in putting together a quick proposal and working with us. Please see www.positiveplanet.net for more info (check out the on-line films in the Zoom In section). Please contact me directly at mgreene@positiveplanet.net to talk if you are interested.
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Trees for Clean Energy Network and Magoso School
Trees for Clean Energy Network has been working with schools and communities to promote environmental Education. This project of OLPCorps will open up Africa since it will give opportunity to African child to tell their story, learn more about health, environment and development. This will also enable the children exchange ideas and learn from children outside Kenya. Currently almost all children under 12 years have no idea of what is a computer and even their Teachers. I look forward to working with one of Corps in Magoso school and assisting him or her to develop this great idea to children of Magoso school.
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Children Rights International - Ghana
This is Bright Appiah, briahus @ yahoo.com, the director for Child Rights International.
We have interest in a team visiting or serving as station in Africa.
Our commitment is to provide an ongoing voice for children and also reaffirm the faith of young people’s hope for a better future.
Please visit our website Children Rights International. thanks
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The Ungana Foundation
As a result of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda gained one million new orphans, still surviving today as the potential new leaders of Rwanda's future. Orphaned children around the world face many obstacles including depression, lack of home support, minimal education, and hindered self-development. Starting June 2009, the UNGANA Foundation seeks to alleviate these odds by introducing 'Goals for Goals' to the ambitious youth of Gisenyi, Rwanda. Utilizing developmentally responsive activities, the 'Goals for Goals' program creates a space where Rwandan children can express creativity and voice and empowers the children with the life skills necessary to improve their own circumstances.
The Ungana Foundation is working on setting up an OLPCorps program in Rwanda for Summer 2009, but we need help - notably with IT setup and long-term funding. Please contact Ashley Linford, Programs Associate for more information at: ashley@unganafoundation.org
www.unganafoundation.org
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Blessing the Children International
BCI (Blessing the Children International) is a nonprofit organization working with several hundred children in Ethiopia, Africa. We regualary send teams and individuals to Ethiopia to work with orphaned, abandoned and impoverished children. We are completing construction on an elemenary school, and also sponsor/support over 100 children's care & Education.
Visit our website: Blessing the Children (www.BlessingTheChildren.org) Or email us at info@BlessingTheChildren.org
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Girls' Mentoring Centers in Mauritania
Peace Corps Mauritania supports 22 Girls' Mentoring Centers across the country specifically designed to help underprivilged girls who have a strong interest in academic pursuits. The centers are supported by the local communities and run by Peace Corps Volunteers and locally trained mentors ensuring a better opportunity for longer standing sustainability. For more information, contact Ginger Tissier at gtissier@gmail.com.
Kasumba Nursery and Primary School, Mubende, Uganda
Kasumba Nursery and Primary School is located in Mubende Town which is 160kms from Kampala City in Uganda. The school has a kindergarten for children 4-6 years and a primary section for children between 6 - 12 years. The school is the best school in the District. It offers the UNEB academic program, and extra-curriculum activities.
The school uses English as medium of instruction. The school has very good infrastructure and the teachers are among the best in the country.
For more information contact: kasnursery@yahoo.com
eduWeavers.org & eSibonisweni Primary School (South Africa)
My name is Dave Hall, an individual volunteer working with eduWeavers.org (of San Rafael, CA) and eSibonisweni Primary School (27° 4'14" S, 32°28'13"E) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to implement an initial 80 XOs and an internet link at the school.
Please check out our videoclip made in February during the first phase of the implementation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psF_Yh0U9c4
On behalf of the headmaster of the school, Mr. Jubilee Tembe, I would like to extend an invitation to teams seeking a rural school destination to help further develop the project. Over the next few weeks I will be conducting a video survey of all the surrounding schools in the district for the purpose of developing a "pull-oriented" community-wide scale-up proposal and a visual database of candidate schools to help eduWeavers.org build their school-2-school programme. As an individual I will be available in a local ground support role, acting as guide, assisting with video documentation, liasing between community and local education authorities and helping to make your project as lasting success.
Contact details: actionscientist@gmail.com
Global Family Rescue (Tanzania, Uganda)
Global Family Rescue is is a non-profit faith-based charitable organization passionately dedicated to bringing hope to families living in extreme poverty throughout the world. Our goal is to help these families progress from extreme poverty to self-sufficiency within three years, and to increase the economic strength and stability of their communities through project based initiatives focused on clean water, education, vocational skills and more.
Working in several villages in Tanzania & Uganda. Funding might be possible.
Interested student groups may contact: david.stupay@globalfamilyrescue.org, renataw21@gmail.com
Bosco-Net (Bamako, Mali)
Distributes and supports educational computing resources to schools in Bamako, Mali.
Sylvestre Kamissoko <boscnet@yahoo.fr> Tél:00223-66-79-44-32 Bamako-Mali
Build A School (Malawi)
Build A School builds schools for the children most in need in the developing world, through sustainable building practices and renewable energies, to promote sustainable development education.
Luke Dolby, Chairman (luke@buildaschool.org.uk)
Build A School www.buildaschool.org.uk
Mantsase Children's Home (Lesotho)
Mantsase Children’s Home is an orphanage started in 1979, in Lesotho. Traditionally, children whose parents have died are taken in by the extended family. With the advent of the AIDS pandemic this has become impossible. In a country of 1.8 million people, there are an estimated 400,000 orphans. Extended families do not have the money and the resources to care for all of the children after their parents have died. Mantsase is an orphanage dedicated to providing a feeling of home and stability to the children who live here. We currently have 55 children. We are hoping to eventually open a computer lab for our children and for the children in the local village, to teach basic computer skills. We would be interested in working with interested partners. Look us up online at Mantsase Children's Home or search for Mantsase Children’s Home on facebook.
Schools
Ecole Internationale Bujumbura (EIB), Bujumbura, Burundi
Ecole Internationale Bujumbura (EIB) is located in the capital of Burundi and consists of some 1200 students ranging in age 5-18. The school has consistently been ranked as one of the top performing/highest achieving schools in the nation and acted as a refuge for children during the decade long war. Currently, the school is without a single computer that is accessible to the student body. Computer access in Bujumbura as a whole is very limited and with Burundi’s recent induction into the Africa Union, English and the expanse of technology skills have been in high demand. The school’s goal is to create a high-tech and functioning computer lab, which will be accessible by both the students and the surrounding community to provide the necessary skills and knowledge to compete and succeed in an ever-growing computer based global economy, workforce, and education system. The school is also active and willing to work with the surrounding community, schools, and orphanages to allow for equal and necessary access to computers and personal/intellectual/social growth. I (Tyler, an English teacher at EIB and a recent college graduate) will personally be able to help in the process of organizing, teaching and working with the surrounding community. Accommodations can be arranged. The school and I are open for all suggestions and possibilities in terms of distributing and conducting the education process and sustainability of the venture. If interested and/or for further information please contact me at: tyler.j.hook@gmail.com.
- Note: Burundi is a French and Kirundi speaking country. Fluency in one or both is beneficial but not necessary. Many of the students, teachers, and members of the surrounding community are competent in English.
Great Commission Academy, Kamwaura, Kenya
Centre Africa Obota, Bamako, Mali
If you are interested in contacting or partnering with this school, please contact Yacouba Berthe, YBerthe@hotmail.com, or CAOMail@hotmail.com.
Mali is a French-speaking country, so fluency in French is a plus. Berthe speaks English.
Sigomere Primary School, Ugenya, Kenya
Sigomere Primary School is located in rural Ugenya near the Kisumu-Busia Highway. Ugenya Town is about 50 kilometres from Kisumu City, Kenya's third largest city, which is located on the shores of Lake Victoria.
If you are interested in contacting or partnering with this school, please contact Prisca Odera, muhwayaodera@yahoo.com
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