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Apr 26th, 2008 - 01:27:47 |
Kasinja Tony Henry
COMPUTERS FROM WORLD COMPUTER EXCHANGE:
Hello, members some time back i emailed Timothy Anderson, director of World computer exchange in Canada to get us computers and he replied as below:
Dear Colleague,
Thank you for writing. In what developing country are you working?
We ship used desktop computers to help connect more youth in developing countries to the Internet. Most of them need to be used most of the time to connect youth up-to the age of 24.
Usually we ship in containers of 200 or 400 sets to help connect 20-40 schools or centres. We also offer shared containers in which Partners can get allotments as small as 20 sets.
We need your brief e-mailed answers in English to most of our attached 25 implementation questions. We post your answers on our website to confirm & cc our Programme Officer for your country to help.
Pentium 3s are US$67 per full set plus shipping. P2s are $47 plus shipping. P1s (good for thin client labs) are $27 plus shipping. We include printers & other useful items. Partners need to budget and plan to repair 10% of computers, install office software & transport from the port.
We ship about 45 days after receipt of your answers & funds.
Please let us know if you have questions.
Best wishes,
Timothy Anderson
President & Founder, World Computer Exchange
Executive Director, World Computer Exchange - Canada
www.WorldComputerExchange.org is a global educational & environmental nonprofit helping connect youth in 65 developing countries to the skills, opportunities & understanding of the Internet while keeping working computers out of landfills. Our 700 volunteers and strategic allies help our 450 Partner organisations build capacity in project planning, partnership development, fund raising, shipping logistics, tech support, teacher training, digital libraries, youth exchanges and responsible e-waste disposal.
More than 2,500 schools, libraries, orphanages and youth centres report that the 26,000 computers they have acquired through WCE are used by over a million youth per year.
He attached questions to be answered, and i had created a folder for it in document links.
Apr 24th, 2008 - 18:59:57 |
Rebecca Lohman
Uganda Space Update
4/24/08
United States Partnership
We are planning a fundraising committee in the United States for the UGANDA SPACE organization. Workers will be assigned tasks and a beginning fundraising goal will be established. This is the beginning of the planning agenda
Planning Meetings
Meetings will be scheduled on a monthly basis to determine organizations progress
Organization Networks
Networks will be established by American and Ugandan school teachers to circulate reading materials to the various village schools
Governmental Partnerships
Ministers of education will be involved in the sustainability of Uganda Space work
Apr 14th, 2008 - 15:14:24 |
Kasinja Tony Henry
FUTURE PLAN OF UGANDA SPACE ORGANISATION
The project intends to set up a permanent structure, which will be used as the organizations office and will have the publishing center and the education resource centre for training purposes and acquisition of more skills. The resource centre is to have access to book library. Television, Videotapes, and computer centre. With these resources, the Students and teachers themselves will have an opportunity to document their own work, share them with others and at the same time create a sense of ownership and close identification with the project. We hope to set up a microfinance bank that will provide the community members with banking activities at low bank charges. We also hope to start a commercial Publishing company and paper making industry.
Apr 14th, 2008 - 15:11:54 |
Kasinja Tony Henry
SUSTAINABILITY OF UGANDA SPACE ORGANISATION
The project is designed to be self-sustainable for the community without any charge shall contribute example the premises on which the project will operate. The organization shall include payment of the salaries for the trainers on its budget and also in future plans to conduct a training of trainees in the teaching and publishing fields so as to do away with the cost of paying for a trainer and instead use volunteers selected from the community. The Organization hopes to have more training for its members both locally and internationally. The knowledge and skills acquired by the beneficiaries of this project shall be passed on to other people directly or indirectly even after the projects lifetime.
The construction of a permanent structure means permanent existence, and the little earned will assist in day-to-day running and motivation of the members. The money collected in the seminars and examinations conducted by the organization will be shared in percentage form to enable sustainability. Lastly we intend to solicit for more funding from other donor agencies or request the potential funder to accomplish our future plan.
The organization is to set up examination boards using our trained teachers, these teachers will set exams for students and schools who have capacity to pay some little money. In Uganda, there is one main examination body and students wait to sit for exams at the end of the year. These examinations will enable the students to prepare for the final year exams. Our trained teachers will mark the exams; the money we shall get will boost the teachers’ salaries as well as helping in running the project.
The trained teachers will be able to write text books for sale. We shall publish these books and sell them to capable schools and students. We even have a greater chance of getting tenders from the government to supply text books to the schools, we hope to commercial printing for magazines, brochures for other organisations. The money we shall get will cover the costs of printing and distributing reading materials to poor students and schools in uganda as well as boosting the teachers salaries.
We are to organise seminars for students and will be required to pay some money. These seminars will mainly be helping these students in answering questions. We are also to organize seminars for teachers from capable schools so that we can update teachers regularly about new teaching methods, how to teach students in order to excel in exams.Teachers will pay money and this money will help in running the project.
With time we hope to start a paper making industry because in uganda there is need of papers as there is only 2 companies supplying papers. If we could produce our own paper, then we can reduce on cost of production of the text books and we shall be able to make exercise books and distibute papers to poor schools and students as well as selling the most of papers to make this project moving ahead.
Microfinance activities; We are to give parents interest free loans so thet they carry out income generating activities so that with time they will be able to buy text books for the poor students and the community will be able to build good schools from the income generating activities. This will make our project sustainable.
Apr 14th, 2008 - 14:59:23 |
Kasinja Tony Henry
WHY UGANDA SPACE WAS FORMED?
One of the major problems facing developing countries like Uganda is the high illiteracy and Poverty levels among the people in such Countries. With the increasing technology, many people have been left behind yet technology is a catalyst to development. The major cause of illiteracy levels in Uganda is the slow growth rate of the education sector which is attributed to insufficient educational text books, science teachers, poor study environment and the increasing poverty levels among the many rural parents to an extent that they can not afford to buy scholastic materials like exercise books, pens, papers and provide lunch to many students who study for free in Government schools.
In spite of the Government’s efforts to improve the education sector by providing free primary and secondary school education to Ugandan students, the move is still hindered by insufficient text books, science teachers, scholastic materials, food for student’s lunch. Many third world schools in rural areas of Uganda are in poor condition as there is no sufficient furniture and chalk and most class rooms are in bad conditions that can not favour students learning. Many students in these schools are left behind as far as computer technology is concerned, since the schools neither have any computer nor a computer teacher.
Many Parents in Rural areas of Uganda are small scale entrepreneurs who are need of capital to start or expand their Ventures. Many parents have been getting loans from commercial and microfinance banks with high interest rates and many have lost their property used as security in these banks. This has worsened the economic capacity of many of these parents who are taking care of the majority of Ugandan students and this has contributed much to the high levels of illiteracy in Uganda.
The Use of Volunteers to provide community service in Uganda is not a new concept and can be capitalized upon as a viable way to provide trained man power for offering education services. Volunteers can be University students undertaking their internship programs or professionals carrying out research in the educational sector of Uganda.
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