[OLPC India] OLPCs at Deepam

[Saurabh Adhikari]

KK,

Thank you for sharing it with us. I presume it may be with the support of Cognizant Chairman Lakshmi Narayanan who was gracious enough to request to support a few schools in Chennai.

Please do connect with other schools in Chennai as well and spread the word. Thank you so much.

Sincerely,

S Adhikari




Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:50:50 +0530
From: kk at deepam.in
To: india at lists.laptop.org
Subject: [OLPC India] OLPCs at Deepam

Hello All,
Good to see OLPC deployment in Rajasthan.
I thought i will update the group on our effort in Chennai, India. Our effort with OLPC is on a small scale - we use 10 OLPCs at Deepam ( www.deepam.org.in ), to teach 5th grade students at a school in Chennai. We use netbooks / laptops at our other centres.


We have been using the OLPCs since January and feedback from the students ( for whom, OLPC is their 1st computer exposure ) has been very encouraging.
Some pics..


http://blog.deepam.org.in/2010/02/10-new-olpcs-donated-to-deepam.htmlhttp://blog.deepam.org.in/2009/12/new-deepam-centre-vrs.html


About Deepam :


Deepam is an NGO Working to empower lesser-privileged children with access to information and opportunity through Education, in Chennai, India. The children we work with often come from deeply disadvantaged backgrounds.Through mentorship & coaching, we transfer four sets of practical skills to these children: 

Computer and internet usage;

Language and communication skills, particularly in English; 

Current and social affairs awareness; 
Personality development. 
The first of these - computers, and the internet - lies at the core of our effort, and is used to drive the other three. These four skills, we believe, will give them a base of tools and help the children understand, identify, and access opportunity for themselves.

 

Deepam reaches out to over 220 children through 6 centres around Chennai, in India. Over 60 active volunteers (drawn from our volunteer pool of over 250 members) teach the children for 2 hours every weekend. We use netbooks, laptops, and the Internet as teaching tools and resources, even as we teach children the skills needed to use them. 




More about Deepam can be found on the web, here http://www.deepam.org.in 


-- 
Karthikeyan Vijayakumar
+919884217276
www.deepam.org.in




 		 	   		  
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