Crowdsourcing Campaign “Donate your old desktop to Help Us Set Up Computer Labs in Rural and Remote Nepal” What is possibly e-waste for you can be a great learning tool for many!!!
What do we want to do?
We, a group of young Nepalis organized under the umbrella of Subaltern Forum, are approaching you all good wishers of Nepal for a cause — to help us turn potential e-waste into laboratories for testing and creating young Nepali brains from remote parts of Nepal. The idea is to collect used desktop computers from individuals and organizations that are willing to donate them. Refurbish them and set up Computer Labs in schools, which have never seen a machine.
Our preliminary study shows that almost all households in the cities have at least one used desktop computer well functioning and they are willing to donate. The research also shows there are many schools in remote parts of Nepal where having one desktop is a luxury. Setting up a computer lab is beyond imagination for many.
One challenge is electricity. But since most of the villages we are targeting have either power supply from isolated micro-hydro or have a national grid connection, the power supply is not an issue. Where both sources of power are unavailable, solar energy is an option for our second phase of this program.
THIS IS POSSIBLE.
Are you willing to JOIN US for this innovative experiment?
If yes, donate your used desktop computer for a meaningful cause.
Give us your location, and we will come to pick it up.
You will be acknowledged/thanked in person for your contribution, by us and by hundreds of schools kids who will learn something from what you have given.
