Thinking caps on at the ready! Which organisations could help with funding?
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Welcome all to our newest action and the one we've all been waiting for!
So, what can you do to get involved? Simple! Put on the thinking caps, fire up your search engines, and begin the research! :-D On a serious note, we need to find organisations, worldwide, that could potentially fund / sponsor our school. At this stage, and during this action all we're going to be looking at is finding the organisations - we'll be approaching them in a future action, so don't get funding happy too soon! ;-)
Chrissie :-)
Project: Previous discussions
http://www.edukaid.com/
Correction to another link:
"Education is absolutely key to the long term success of developing countries... Currently, we are working in the Mtwara region of southern Tanzania. We provide primary and secondary school pupils with the means to go to school when they and their families are incapable of doing so. We also support the schools directly by providing teaching resources, books and facilities as well as trying to improve the quality of teaching."
It would seem that considerable focus is on Tanzania because of those dispossed by strife in neighboring countries have re-located there and increased the load on services available.
Gosh, great to see we're moving forward with this action! Well done all of you! :-D
I'll be going through your posts tomorrow and adding them to the master spreadsheets so that we don't lose one iota of the info you've kindly researched. I'll also be adding a few of my own - have a few big ones that might be long shots, but well worth a try I think! Watch this space and the wiki!
Also, don't be afraid of the wiki! Add away! If anyone needs a hand please let me know - I'll be happy to talk you through it. :-)
Chrissie :-)
Hm, looking over recent and previous information that Stephen has provided, I am beginning to get a clue as to location.
I also used Google maps and selected the Hybrid tab, which combines satellite pictures with pointers on the map.
On the map I found an area labelled Embakasi. It looks to be near a major intersection of A104 with the road running to the International Airport.
Brother! Nairobi is a big place.
Facilitator C:
I know that Herr Koot wants us all marching to the beat of dotLearn and never, never to mention G**gle
However, I went to the spreadsheet and looked at it. But, as far as I could tell, that was all that I could do.
And, if you don't know me by now, I had some suggestions... (see attached spreadsheet)
Seriously, if we were using Google Docs and Spreadsheets, then participants could collaborate online with the information. No need for a particular personal computer to have the particular software to handle an .xls format. All you need is to use the browser.
(Steps down from soapbox)
Hi Jonathan,
Sorry sweetie, but i can't open the document you sent so can't comment yet I'm afraid! The spreadsheet is just to collate info. Feel free to continue posting your fantastic research and I'll add etc. At this moment in time we just need to concentrate on the collating of the data.
Chrissie :-)
Hi, Chrissie
Re: Curmudgeons, Ho!
My point exactly, cupcake. You can't "collate" info in the spreadsheet that I provided because you were unable to open it.
Pray tell, how does one compile info in your spreadsheet if unable to open it? (Which I can, but others may not.)
And, (being curmudgeony) I might add, Open Office Calculator, which can open / save your .xls or save it in its own .ods format, is FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) whereas Excel is not.
A book and a game for Peace
St. John Non-Formal School in Korogocho has launched and a new game aimed at creating and enhancing peace in the area about Kayole Police Station.
Fr. daniel moschetti (Comboni missionary) who is the parish priest coordinated both productions, all in the interest of peace. The bilingual book, Tuka Pamoja, comprises pupils' own selection of photos, and their verbatim written comments explaining their choices. The result is a collection of rough-cut gems.
Deputy principa, Daniel Ochola, is credited for his untiring efforts in bringing the book together. "We gave pupils cameras and told them to shoot anything that was a symbol of peace, or anything they thought were the fruits of peace" explains Roseline Atieno who is one of the teachers in charge of the local Peace Club.
The innovative game played by two, involves casting a dice on the hand-drawn map of Korogocho. The dice should land on a specific point for a player to gain points.
The Peace Club members are helped to identify some causes of conflict, and then they are shown how to deal with them.
UN-HABITAT Executive Director, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, consoled victims of Nairobi slum skirmishes with a US$50K donation.
Manny,
What are the coordinates of an intersection (see attached image) shown on the map that you just posted?
J-
Manuel,
Am sorry for the delay of posting Matopeni map on line.This becouse all the maps am getting do indicate Estate that borders Matopeni like the one you posted on this thread.Indicating Kayole 1 primary school which is one kilometre from our school and 100metre to Kayole police station which is in Matopeni slum.What am trying to learn here is that some areas which are not well developed do not appear in mostly found Maps.But believe me,I must get it in the cause of this week whatsoever.The plots we are hoping to buy are in Matopeni slum and they cost $3000 measuring 60 fit by 20 fit. From my rough estimate one plot of this size is enough to construct two classrooms that can acommodate 25 to 30 pupils.
See the attached picture (plot) that is on sale with the same measurement.
Jonathan,
You are totaly updated with what is happening in Kenya Nairobi in particular.like what happened a few weeks a go in Mathare where many people lost their lives at the expence of two rival tribal groups.For sure it was sad to see local Mathare slum dwellers who are poor killed in a cold blood in the city without the Goverment providing proper security for their life and property.
Stephen.
Hi All!
Every day I log in and whilst it's loading up and i'm going into my profile to enter Matopeni, I'm always thinking what might have happened overnight with regards to research etc and I'm always pleasantly suprised! :-D
So, we have LOADS going on over here!
Jonathan - Bless ya cottons, thanks for your current research. Wasn't until your second posting I realised what you were getting at. :lol: Thing, is, we're all going to be using different versions of pc operating systems etc etc etc. So that it isn't an issue, I think we should utilise the wiki. I'm going to create the spreadsheet physically in the wiki, like we have done in previous / current actions and we'll use that as our master base. How's that for a solution???? ;-)
Seriously though, our research has been really good to date, but I'm sure there are a lot more organisations out there! Neighbours! Fire up your search engines!
Chrissie :-)
I'm not sure this belongs in the discussion on funding, but I don't want to lose the continuity of Stephen's comment on maps.
Stephen, on the business plan discussion I posted some possible latitude and longitude coordinates for Matopeni, based on my research. If you have a friend with a hand-held GPS unit (or, maybe the local UN office might lend you an engineer for a day), you can get the coordinates for the police station, and the 4 corners (boorders) of the slum, as well as for the land that is for sale. I could then use those cooordinates to make a better map for you.
The picture is great! - are all 5 plots next to each other? if so, we are talking 15 Thousand $$$, and that is not an easy amount to collect nor to transfer to Nairobi, and possibly not even to get to you for the sale... For that transfer, a regular bank transfer (and bank account) would be needed.
By the way, a lot of wonderful ideas are coming up right now, but our priority must still be getting the new school built before the 2007-2008 school year starts!
Also, I posted this on the Business Plan forum, but I'll do it again.... the first version of the website is up! Please check it out and make comments, observations, even make a whole new website for me to load to the server if you wish! :lol:
Matopeni Preparatory School Website 1.0
Manuel
Facilitator C:
Dahling, I think that is uh fi-i-i-i-ine suggestion.
Rhett
Facilitator C
While you are about the transfer of an Excel spreadsheet to a dotLearn wiki table, may I ask that you consider importation of a table from another spreadsheet located at
http://www.nabuur.com/modules/villages_issues/index.php?villageid=174&rm...
Thanks to Mary, I happened to examine a spreadsheet developed for the Kiliba Village. Sheet number 8 of 9 contains a list entitled School Partners.
I can appreciate better the frustration of Koot when he sees villagers again and again re-inventing the wheel. Guess it goes with the muddy ground.
J-
Hi Jonathan
I'm all for collaboration too, so don't worry! Could you check with Kiliba first though before we go ahead and use their info that they've collected? Just a quick "courtesy call" will work wonders! :-)
I must admit I've already put our table in, but it's a very basic one, so it'll be really easy to delete out and change - only managed to put Lynley's up last night. Ran out of time again!
Chrissie :-)