New Life Medical and Educational Trust has slum preschools (Balwadis) throughout the Mumbai area.<br><br>At
 these schools children receive a single meal per day, social 
interaction, and simple education (an attempt to get them up to 
mainstream school level).<br>
<br>There has recently been a proposal to develop two simple computer 
training centers to help children develop their education in a way that 
is relevant to a computer centric world (current programs involve little
 or no computer competency and are largely unstructured in their 
educational delivery).<br>
<br>These two initial centers are in areas predominantly inhabited by lower socio-economic 'Banjara' people.<br><br>As
 always, cost is an issue so I looked into obtaining second hand laptops
 and installing Ubuntu on them. I then realized that what I was 
formulating as an alternative was very similar to the OLPC project and 
thought that I ought to make contact to understand the implementation of
 OLPC better.<br>
<br>The children are aged from 2 years to 10 years (but most are 5 to 7)
 are from very poor families (who obtain seasonal income mainly in the 
fishing industry), live in rough environment slum areas of Mumbai and 
are, without educational development, at risk of 
prostitution/trafficking/<div id=":om">exploitation among other ill-effects of the poverty cycle.<br>
<br>At present, in the two proposed areas of Banjara children, there are
 approximately 30 - 40 children frequenting each Balwadi (slum 
pre-school) however throughout all the balwadis that our organization 
implements there are at least several thousand children attending on a 
daily basis.<br><br>PS: does anyone know why I can't 'reply all' to the messages I'm receiving?<br><br>Ash<br></div><div style id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><div style id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><div style id="avg_ls_inline_popup">
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