“Jamii” means community in Kiswahili, and is the foundational principle of Jamii OLPC’s OLPCorps Africa proposal:
Real, sustainable development comes from the people who make cities, towns and villages into communities.
A partnership between Matemwe School, the Matemwe School Computer Centre NGO (Certificate #701) of Zanzibar, Tanzania and numerous international team members, Jamii OLPC is a small but experienced multi-national, multi-university team applying to the One Laptop per Child 2009 OLPCorps Africa program.
Jamii OLPC hopes to be accepted into the OLPCorps Africa program and provided with 100 XO laptops to begin an XO Library at Matemwe.
Together, Jamii OLPC seeks to help further engage and empower young people of Matemwe School to be drivers of development in their community, assisted by the opportunities for education and innovation OLPC provides.
Children are the future; if equipped with education, tools and opportunities, this generation can take up the battle to improve the lives of their families, community and country–and win.
This generation can make a difference.
All of the information on this site is also available on our OLPCorps Wiki Page.
Contact us at JamiiOLPC@gmail.com
