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KK,<br><br>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.<br><br>Please do connect with other schools in Chennai as well and spread the word. Thank you so much.<br><br><div>Sincerely,<BR>
S Adhikari<BR></div><br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:50:50 +0530<br>From: kk@deepam.in<br>To: india@lists.laptop.org<br>Subject: [OLPC India] OLPCs at Deepam<br><br><div>Hello All,</div><div><br></div><div>Good to see OLPC deployment in Rajasthan.</div><div><br></div><div>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 ( <a href="http://www.deepam.org.in">www.deepam.org.in</a> ), to teach 5th grade students at a school in Chennai. We use netbooks / laptops at our other centres.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Some pics..</div><div><br>
</div><a href="http://blog.deepam.org.in/2010/02/10-new-olpcs-donated-to-deepam.html">http://blog.deepam.org.in/2010/02/10-new-olpcs-donated-to-deepam.html</a><div><a href="http://blog.deepam.org.in/2010/02/10-new-olpcs-donated-to-deepam.html"></a><a href="http://blog.deepam.org.in/2009/12/new-deepam-centre-vrs.html">http://blog.deepam.org.in/2009/12/new-deepam-centre-vrs.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>About Deepam :</b></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.deepam.org.in/2009/12/new-deepam-centre-vrs.html"></a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;">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 <span><span>transfer</span></span> four sets of practical skills to these children: </span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"></p></div><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;">Computer and internet usage;</span></li>
<div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;">Language and communication skills, particularly in English; </span></li>
</div><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;">Current and social affairs awareness; </span></li>
</div><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;">Personality development. </span></li></ol><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;">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.</span></div>
</span><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><div style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">
<span><span style="color: black;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">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. </span></font></span></span></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span><span style="color: black;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></span></font></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span><span style="color: black;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">More about Deepam can be found on the web, here </span></font><span style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.deepam.org.in/" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);">http://www.deepam.org.in</a> </span></font></span></span></span></font></span></span></p>
</div></span></div></span></div><br>-- <br>Karthikeyan Vijayakumar<br>+919884217276<br><a href="http://www.deepam.org.in">www.deepam.org.in</a><br><br><br><br><br> </body>
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