G-2984

Mother Tongue Computer Labs

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Project Description

Region: South-East Asia

Country: India

Location: Bangalore

Total Budget: $48,000

Area of Focus: Basic education and literacy



BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE: MOTHER TONGUE BASED LANGUAGE LABS IN ONE MAGNET SCHOOL AND 5 SATELLITE/SPOKE INSTITUTIONS AROUND RAJANUKUNTE, BANGALORE, INDIA.

Major activities are:

1. Setting up a Language Lab so Kannada and other mother tongue medium children are digitally enabled and reduce digital divide

2. Setting up first of its kind Ka-Naada hardware mother tongue hardware keyboards and their usage with low-cost pocket servers and pocket computers

3. Deploy content in Kannada and other mother tongue so the lab content supports Reinforced Learning methods and children can think and type in their mother tongue for the first time.

4. Speed typing training and learning to type English as well on Ka-Naada multilingual keyboard.

5. Setup a local network with ups, so server and switch will function with electricity and internet failures

6. Train Language Lab Assistant on computer fundamentals, to run the lab once or twice a week, after hours with volunteers and impart leadership skills in children

7.Implement train the trainer programs.

8. Network five rural schools with hub magnet school

9. Conduct training for teachers from spoke schools at Magnet school for creating digital content and impact assessment

10. Provide average 40 keyboards per school per year to students to take home and practice.

11. Handhold this over two academic years at the six schools.

More details in the DRAFT Global Grant 2233996 Application

Primary Host Partner

District: 3190

Rotary Club of: Bangalore Oasis

Primary Contact: Paul Mundackal

Email: paul@eshq.net

Primary International Partner

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Project Status

Need $39,800
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Project listed for the 2022-23 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Bangalore Oasis (3190)

2-Sep-22

$1,000

$4,000

$5,000

Remaining Amount to Raise

Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution

$39,800

-

$39,800

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

-

$3,200

$3,200

Total

$48,000

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

2-Sep-22

System Entry

System Entry: Creation of project page.

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