Preparing 5th container to Nepal
| Help connect 27,000 youth in 75 rural Himalayan schools. WCE has worked for 7 years with this strong Partner with a demonstrated effectiveness at gradually connecting school after school. ~ $8,100 is needed for this fifth container of 400 computers. |
WCE is pleased to be again supporting the Committee for the Promotion of Public Awareness and Development Studies (COPPADES), an NGO in Nepal in their effort to implement Basic Computer and Information Technology Education (BCICT) project since 2002. The collaboration with COPPADES is highly satisfactory and we trust them and appreciate their effort in bringing computer and IT education to rural schools in Nepal.
COPPADES has worked throughout Nepal for many development projects that uplift the communities through the empowerment of the poorest, Dalits, women and children. Working with World Computer Exchange (WCE), COPPADES has imported 1,600 used computers to help connect to the Internet 300 rural schools with 109,000 students. WCE has found Mr. Kandel to be trustworthy and competent.
For more than 10 years Dikendra Kandel worked to establish LEDCO a community owned Hydropower Company with majority shareholders coming from Lamjung. With a total overall budget of more than a $2 Million, and supported by various international aid agencies, LEDCO has constructed among the first small Hydro Electric projects in Nepal in which a substantial portion of the power was owned by the community itself, and portions of that power was able to be sold for a profit back into the nation's electrical grid.
Mr. Kandel has also been a professor in a college exchange program in Kathmandu for several years in the past. Several volunteers and donors to World Computer Exchange had him as a teacher while they were students visiting from their US universities and colleges to Nepal.
Dikendra Kandel is able to maintain his own faith, focus, and commitment to projects that many people told him would never happen. He manages high-level negotiations with donors, lobbies with government officials, and maintains the trust of a large, diverse and mostly undereducated village community. Mr. Kandel has a drive to affect change, and not only the desire –but also the proven ability to affect that change.
This will be the 5th container of 400 computers. COPPADES is placing a small number of computers in each of hundreds of rural schools and then working with them to connect to the Internet.
The average annual income in Nepal is $1,200 per person and a bit under 2% of the population use the Internet.
WCE Baltimore/Washington volunteer Dimitry Cherny recently held a tour of Washington DC as a fund raising event.
BY CHECK: If you wish to donate to this shipment via a check on a bank in the USA or Canada, please include the note "Nepal" on your check and mail it to: WCE 936 Nantasket Ave. Hull, Mass. 02045 USA.
BY CREDIT CARD: If you are going to use the Network For Good link below, please enter "Nepal" in one of the boxes on the form.
BY PAYPAL: If you have a PayPal account, you can also give via PayPal if you have set up an account with them (their fee is 2.9%) - please send us an e-mail at Nepal@WorldComputerExchange.org when you do so it is properly credited. The "Donate Now" tab at the top of this page will take you to a page with a a orange oblong oval you can click to go to PayPal.
We will send you a tax deductible receipt if you are in the USA. Or our affiliate WCE-Canada can send you a receipt if you donate to them. We send a cc to Dikendra Kandel so he knows the status of our fund raising.
| Sponsor Funds Needed: | $8,100 |
| Funds Received: | $746 |
