[Olpc-morocco] OLPC in Morocco

[Tilila Moujahid]

Hello,

Thank you for your prompt reply and for the links you gave me; they were pretty helpful.
A bit of information concerning the association I work with: It is called Hand in Hand and was created by students of Al Akhawayn in 1996 to launch sustainable development projects in the region of Ifrane.
A lot of the projects focus on students' education in the area. We provide tutoring classes, help building and furnishing schools, donate books and schools stationaries at the beginning of every school year etc...
Every year we hold a Fun Run. It's our biggest fund raising event that is used to finance one Big project that we select every year.
Here is the website of the association (only in Frensh :s:s:s ) http://www.hand-in-hand.ma/
It has more details on our work.
I've forwarded the info you sent to the other members, and they are discussing all that. I'll give you more details very soon.
It appears that "Laptop per child" and Hand in Hand share the same vision when it comes to helping out kids in their studies. I guess that'll be interesting to start something together :)

Cheers
<http://www.hand-in-hand.ma/>
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From: Ahmed Mansour [atphalix at inbox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:27 PM
To: Sameer Verma
Cc: Tilila Moujahid; Carolyn LaFontaine; samy.boutayeb at olpc-france.org; olpc-morocco at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: OLPC in Morocco

Hello Sameer and all,

Thanks for this message, and your are welcome to help any way you want Tilila.
I think I need to give you an update about the current status of OLPC in Morocco, it may be useful too for the upcoming OLPCSF community summit:

- The OLPC EU foundation project to make a large deployement in the south of Morocco (in Ouarzazate region)
is currently stalled as they are still looking for funds and I didn't hear from them for sometime.
- In the mean time I'm trying to focus on Sugar and continue the localisation into Arabic and creating educational content
that would be distributed in LiveCD or on USB sticks (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick) to introduce it to teachers who already have computer in their schools to know about their needs/suggestions to be better prepared for a distribution of laptops later.
- There is a new deployment in Palestine (http://laptop.org/en/children/countries/mideast.shtml) and it is the first in the  Arab world, so we try to closely follow and learn from them as any progress they make would be useful to the other country in the region due to shared language and culture. here the official forum where you can find teachers and people involved with the project (http://olpcmideast.ning.com).

There is still a lot to do and many area where we need help (both technical and non technical), I think it would be a good start to contact Tilila's association to get in touch with teachers and explain them the project and get their opinion.

Cheers,
Ahmed




Hello Carolyn, Samy and Ahmed,
Let me introduce Tilila El Moujahid, a student at SFSU. She is from
Morocco and is very interested in OLPC activities in Morocco. She went
to Al Akhawayn in Ifran. She has an association there that does a lot
of edu related work in remote areas.

This is what I have by way of information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souss-Massa-Dra%C3%A2
http://openensa.org/programme.html
http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com/

Any pointers would be great.

cheers,
Sameer




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Ahmed Mansour
http://olpc-maroc.blogspot.com


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