[OLPC-SF] Haiti Solar power charging XO project (New Video)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 17:18, Bruce Baikie <bruce at green-wifi.org> wrote:
> The IIT student team working on Solar Powering the OLPC XO's in Haiti
> schools have created a great video. I just wanted to share it with you.
> Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Would your IIT student team be interested in working with the Sugar
Labs Replacing Textbooks project to document your design, and how to
build and install it on a school?

> http://bit.ly/l7WLGl
>
> Best regards
> Bruce
>
>
> Hello fellow OLPC'er
>
> Schools in Lascahobas, Haiti received XO laptops in 2009, when they had
> electric grid power. Unfortunately, the grid hasn’t been functional since
> the devastating earthquake of Jan. 2010, and these schools and over 1,000
> children with XO laptops, have had no means to charge them for over a year
> now.
>
> A team of students from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and I worked
> on a nice solar design and want to install their design to charge these
> XOs.  But this take funding and the IIT students have placed their project
> on Global Giving.  I would like to challege you to donate at least $10 to
> the project.
>
> I just donated and you can do the same at:
> http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/solar-transformation-for-haitian-education/
>
> Thank you and best regards
> Bruce Baikie
> Green WiFi
>
> PS to read more about their project see:
> http://www.iitempoweringhaiti.org/
>
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