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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 &amp; 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>
<br>
   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>
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   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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