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Recently, we were contacted by the Sunrise Education Foundation in Kathmandu, Nepal. This foundation works to improve the quality and effectiveness of community schools throughout the country....
OMPT spoke with Andy Lieberman; the former executive director of a Guatemalan non-governmental organization called Ajb'atz' Enlace Quiche. Currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has...
Impact Network is a NPO that builds sustainable schools in rural Africa. They have built two community schools in Zambia so far and are now working on their...
OMPT had an opportunity to correspond with Kwame K. Ohene-Adu, a native of Ghana. He has been working in the field of IT, especially software development....
Digital Green, an India based non-profit organization, aims to teach agricultural practices by using videos in remote areas in India. OMPT has supported Digital Green through providing audio/...
Literacy Bridge is an U.S. non-profit organization which focuses on the empowerment of children and adults through literacy education and knowledge sharing. They work together with rural...
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Drishtee Times focuses on teaching English to students in rural India. They accomplish this by connecting the children to a teacher in Delhi through the use of a mobile phone and speakers.
Mobile phone and speakers. They also tried out Skype but ran into problems.
Results:
They conducted a pilot study in Sultanpur and Munger and delivered 20 hours of instruction through this device. They also kept a log of the issues faced during each class. The log showed some reoccurring problems that happened during the classes. For instance, when calling rural India from Delhi, the Airtel landline did not produce the level of quality with the “Gyan Yantra” that a cell phone would. But by and large, the classes ran smoothly.
