[Toronto-dev] [how to kick off an El Salvador OLPC project?]

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Mark/JMart,
Can you offer suggestions for this possible El Salvador initative?  
And/or OLPC/Sugar contacts around Kingston, Ontario?!

On 10/28/2011 1:55 PM, y.ochoa.gutierrez at queensu.ca wrote:
> I am a graduate student at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
> I am interested in applying for a Community Leaders Program out of 
> Queen's http://quic.queensu.ca/outgoing/communityleadership.asp which 
> provides funding for international projects to communities with a 
> demonstrated need. I am a native of El Salvador and would like to 
> bring the one laptop per child program to the country (big goal). I 
> propose to begin, on a smaller scale, in one community in order to get 
> support from other non-profit organizations, private sponsorship and 
> ideally the Ministry of Education.
> My application deadline for the program is February 2012. Right now, I 
> am gathering the support from agencies, faculty, community groups etc. 
> that I need in order to be successful in receiving funding.
> Please let me know what the best way is to access the laptops. Would 
> it be through the Contributors program?

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