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join us Right Now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects
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AGENDA:<br>
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* New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach:
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?!<br>
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* Fast Review of the 3 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals --
please<br>
join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these
proposals:<br>
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1. OLPC 4 Geospatial Learning - Munster, Germany<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47210">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47210</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gi-at-school.de">http://gi-at-school.de</a> (blog coming soon)<br>
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Requests 2 XO's over 8 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Developing and testing software module(s) within the context of<br>
"Understanding space & environment using Geoinformation" in
primary<br>
schools<br>
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2. Home Schools Project - Master Teachers by Satellite for Afghanistan<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47311">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47311</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.afghan-satellite-teachers.net">http://www.afghan-satellite-teachers.net</a><br>
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Requests 9 XO's over 12 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Our objective is to bring education to the one-half of Afghan
children<br>
who are unschooled and for whom there will be no school available,<br>
according to the Strategic Plan of the Afghanistan Ministry of<br>
Education, before they grow into illiterate adults. MTSA has been the<br>
chief voice (if not indeed the only one) advocating for these
children<br>
that they be provided with technologically available educational<br>
solutions, including in particular the OLPC laptop computer. <br>
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MTSA seeks to deploy the XO laptop in "home schools" or "community<br>
schools" in rural areas of Afghanistan. The laptop computers will
serve<br>
both boys and girls who have otherwise little hope of achieving<br>
literacy. Based on the experience in India with computers made
available<br>
to slum kids without instruction (the Hole in the Wall Project),<br>
children in Afghanistan should be provided with the XO laptop even<br>
before the government can provide them with a trained teacher and
before<br>
they can have a bricks and mortar school building. <br>
<br>
What does the future look like for these children today growing up<br>
illiterate in the mountains of Afghanistan? The girls will be married<br>
off at 12 or 13 to become illiterate mothers before they have become<br>
fully women, while the boys will follow their fathers as hardscrabble<br>
farmers or as cannon fodder for local war lords or for the Taliban. <br>
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OLPC and the XO, with our help and yours, can dramatically change
this<br>
reality.<br>
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3. Vung Vieng Fishing Village Laptop Project - Bai Tu Long Bay, Ha Long
Bay, Vietna<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47367">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47367</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44253">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44253</a><br>
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Requests 10 XO's + 2 parts machines over (undetermined) months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
This village is very poor.<span style="">
</span>During certain times of the year, it is<br>
not unusual for families have
only two meals a day. Only 25% of the<br>
young adults and adults in the village can
read.<span style=""> </span>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Vung</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vieng</st1:PlaceName><br>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
has very few school supplies.<span style=""> </span>Responsibility
for<br>
family is a very high priority.<span style="">
</span>Young adult and adult children support<br>
take care of their parents and
grandparents.<span style=""> </span>Primary <i style="">measurable</i><br>
goals of the Vung Vieng
Fishing Village Laptop Project are:
<p class="MsoNormal"> 1.<span style=""> </span>To increase
literacy and computer literacy among children and<br>
adults in the community;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 2.<span style=""> </span>To prepare a
higher percentage of village children for<br>
secondary school and work
opportunities in and outside of the<br>
village; <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 3.<span style=""> </span>To achieve an
increase in subsistence income for the families,<br>
and improved child nutrition
and health through the visibility<br>
and partners of the Vung Vieng Fishing
Village Laptop Project<br>
and by education gains.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 4. To create a pool of home grown "young
adults"
and "adults" who<br>
can contribute to the future financial support, education,<br>
governance, and community life of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Vung</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Vieng</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Fishing</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.</p>
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