- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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11 people are interested
Create graphics for computer lessons for African children
ORGANIZATION: Laptops to Lesotho Inc.
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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11 people are interested
Work with other volunteers who are doing computer programming to create computer-based lessons and games for poor children in remote mountain villages in Lesotho, Africa. You will create digital illustrations and graphics the other volunteers need to accompany the lessons they create. This could be anything from a map for a geography lesson to a comic strip about HIV/AIDS to images of fractions for a math lesson. You will need email and your own graphics illustration and/or photo editing software. Laptops to Lesotho will retain copyright of anything you create for us, and your work may be posted in the public domain for free use.
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About Laptops to Lesotho Inc.
Location:
55 EAGLE CREEK RD, WAYAN, ID 83285, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to increase educational opportunities for children in rural Lesotho through access to advanced technologies.
Laptops to Lesotho
distributes laptops to children in rural Lesotho,
trains the children and their teachers in the laptops’ use,
develops customized classroom lessons for core subjects,
provides school servers with "internet in a box,"
teaches the children critical-thinking and problem-solving skills using the laptops,
develops a community-based organization to provide local support and funding, and
deploys solar electricity to power the laptops for sites off the electrical grid.
Description
Primary school children in remote mountain villages in Lesotho, Africa, attend poor schools with few resources, unskilled teachers, and overcrowded classrooms. Laptops provide engaging personalized learning opportunities that improve their education, teach them to love learning, and increase their chances at a fuller, healthier life. Without laptops, they are destined for a hard life of subsistence living, with a high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
September 13, 2014
SKILLS
- Visual Arts
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- able to work with other volunteers