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What were Dave and Emma up to this past year?
Accomplished Goal: Salybia School Computer Center
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David Seaward
Age: 18
Hometown: Lexington, Massachusetts
Contact: davidcword@hotmail.com
Current Projects
: Full-time Second Grade Teacher at Salybia
Primary School, Carib Territory
: Planning and fundraising for creation of
Salybia Primary School Technological Education
Center (See below)
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Emma Beals
Age: 18
Hometown: Lexington, Massachusetts
Contact: Emma.Beals@gmail.com
Current Projects
: Literacy Tutor for remedial students at Salybia
Primary School, Carib Territory
: Personal Tutor at the Crayfish River Special
Needs School
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We are Emma and Dave, two interns who completed our work in April 2008. We
were working with teachers from Salybia Primary School and the Special Needs
School to increase educational opportunities for students and adults alike.
From discussions with our school partners and from our observations, we
identified a way we were able to help build on the current education
experience provided for Kalinago community members. In partnership with
Salybia Primary faculty, we helped create an internet-enabled Computer
Resource Center housed in Salybia Primary and open on weekends and in the
evenings for adults. Currently, the only public access to computers or
technology skills enhancement classes for the Kalinago community is a costly
hour bus ride away. Our goal was to bring that opportunity closer to them.
We relied on laptop and monetary donations to get this project started. To
date, 7 laptops and $1600 USD was raised. The Center is open with community
and school faculty acting as the Board of Directors and a few Kalinago young
adults volunteering their time to run the Center and maintain the computers.
Our hope for the future is to increase both the number of laptops and the
funding that will help get this Center established more permanently until an
stable income is generated through modest computer class fees for adults.
Interested in helping? Donations are accepted online through this website or use the downloadable In-kind Donation form (which can be found in the FORMS link of the website).
   
   
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