Contact: Luke Dolby (Chairman of Build a School)
Build A School
Registered UK Charity No: 1118476
Website: www.buildaschool.org.uk
Email: luke@buildaschool.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1273 622174
Mob +44 (0)7976 07 07 17
- You beat me to it- I would have been getting in touch with OLPC in the next three months anyway.
- This fits perfectly with our objectives, and we are currently working on some other exciting renewable energy projects, including a kinetic energy seesaw that allows children to play and generate power for their classrooms at the same time.
- We can assist in two ways:
- Providing schools with desperately needed access to laptops
- Providing a urban, accessible space at our new sustainable development education centre in Lilongwe, Malawi, to demonstrate and showcase the laptops (for free).
- The benefit of point 2 is this helps promote the laptops in an environment that will receive thousands of visitors and in particular key decision makers who often don't have time to access rural areas when visiting a country such as Malawi.
- It's strength is it is available to local people and foreign visitors for free in a central location.
- With so many projects in Africa attempting to launch projects in rural or hard to reach places, this centre is already looking forward to showcasing great ideas that offer a sustainable benefit to children's lives and in particular education.
- If we can discuss your proposal further, please call either of the numbers below or email your contact information and a suitable time to call. I could have visited MIT last month as I met with the Millennium Promise as our sustainable development education centre proposal was submitted to the Earth Institute.