OLPC Rhotia Valley

A group of Dutch people has setup a safari lodge in Rhotia Valley, Tanzania. With the profit of the lodge they run a children's home. Through the children's home they are involved with the local people and close to the local schools as well.

At the moment, 4 XOs are present there to prepare and motivate the teachers, as money has been raised for 100 more machines. These will hopefully be delivered early February 2009. The 100 machines will be given to 2 classes of about 50 children in 2 different schools.

A few pictures with the test machines are below

Jannes showing the XO to children at Rhotia Valley

Teachers with XOs

Children with XOs at Rhotia Valley

Education room at the Children's home

For more information please contact one of the following people (Jannes and Marita are in Tanzania at the moment and will guide the deployment):

• Reinier Heeres: reinier at heeres dot eu
• Jannes Snel: jannessnel at hotmail dot com
• Marita Bijlsma: m_e_bijlsma at hotmail dot com