<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello OLPC Rwanda Learning Team<div><br></div><div>My name is Michelle Shaw. I am the educational director of HOPE: Rwanda, a not-for-profit organisation. For the past 6 years we have worked directly with the Ministry of Education in Rwanda in the up-skilling and training teachers and trainers in Rwanda.</div><div><br></div><div>Our primary focus is working with current training needs within a Rwanda's education system and developing strategic training content to meet these needs.</div><div><br></div><div>Our past achievements include:</div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>implementing a 3 year teacher trainer pathway to train existing targeted teachers as National Trainers for the Ministry of Education(over 600 teachers )</li><li>retraining existing primary teachers in Rwanda in Nursery education to set up and run local nursery schools</li><li>implementing special education training for Rwandan teachers</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Our 2010 projects include:</div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Assisting MINEDUC develop the English curriculum teacher training materials to retrain 31000 Rwandan teachers in the next 2 years to teach in English</li><li>Using a moodle for a teacher mentor program with existing leaders in education</li><li>Training middle management in MINEDUC( District Inspectors and heads of TTC's-Teacher Training Centres) in student centred learning and ICT</li><li>Training lecturers at KIE(Rwanda's tertiary institution for B.Ed- Secondary teachers) in ICT in education</li><li>Co-Writing the module for the B. Ed (Secondary) at KIE in ICT in education</li></ul><div><br></div><div>I am a great believer in organisations working in synergy together, each bringing their part. I will be in Rwanda during July coordinating our projects at KIE and MINEDUC.</div><div>I would like to possibly arrange a meeting with the coordinator of the Laptop and Learning Centre regarding ways we could work together in the future. </div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to your reply.</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Michelle Shaw</span></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">Education Director</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">HOPE Inc. </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7F7F7F">ABN: 85 342 637 545</font></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">P:+ 61 2 9659 2553</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'">M: +61 (0) 413132439</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><a href="http://www.hoperwanda.org/">www.hoperwanda.org</a></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Follow on Twitter: </span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://twitter.com/HopeRwanda">http://twitter.com/HopeRwanda</a></span></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></font></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>