OLPCorps: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Ethiopia

This project is initiated by a group of four Ethiopian students attending Msc program in Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden in diverse field of science and has wide range of professional experience and academics background. Since all of us are coming from Ethiopia it will be easy facilitation and communication with the beneficiaries as well as the stockholders We are applying for Tesfa and Kendile Public school in Kebele 07 and 08 Nifas Silk Lafto Sub City Addis Ababa. The project is designed to be implemented from July 2009 up to August 2009 by the student and their respective counter part in Addis Ababa Synergy Ethiopia and kebele Administration. The management of the project is carryout by a steering committee is constituted from the concerned government office, community based organizations, community, our partner NGO (SYNERGY ETHIOPIA) and the team members of students that are going from Stockholm. The steering committee will be responsible smooth project implementation, mobilize the community and concerned stockholders, setting the selection criteria of the beneficiary students with in the frame work of the project ultimately ensures the project sustainability. This project is designed to integrate with the community based projects that are carried out by Synergy Ethiopia, which is implemented with tripartite agreement of the government, NGO and community based organizations. The project targets to changing knowledge, attitude, and practice of use of urban natural environment through the use of information technology. It is going to be linked with the existing projects of promoting sustainable use of urban environment. The area is characterized by poor infrastructure, dissected by many rivers that carries solid and liquid wastes from the city center and its obnoxious odder makes the area uninhabitable. Families and children’s who are living in those areas are subjected to multitudes of the social economic and health problems that are related with poverty and degraded natural environment. The distribution of laptops motivates the families and the children’s to work together to the realization of bringing the required knowledge, attitude practice change, enhance the information flows in the community, demonstrates best practice in preservation protection and sustainable use of natural resources in the urban environment. So long as the children’s are properly provided standard education they are the fertile ground to bring the required change, in this kind under served and marginalized community with urban infrastructures and services.