{"id":1610,"date":"2010-06-29T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TravelWithPaulie.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2011-11-23T00:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T00:27:33","slug":"pcs-for-migrant-children-campaig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgoodchild.me\/blog\/pcs-for-migrant-children-campaig\/","title":{"rendered":"PCs for Migrant Children Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update: for a progress report please see the follow up article<\/a> to this campaign posted 2 weeks following this one<\/em>]<\/p>\n

I’m here to humbly ask for your support.\u00a0 It wont happen because everyone else donates, but only if you<\/em> offer your support too – no contribution is too small.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hopefully we can get computers that look a little better than this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here<\/em>, more specifically, is Mae Sot<\/a> on the Thai-Burma (Mynamar) border.\u00a0 The walkabout video below illustrates much more succinctly than I could ever do in writing, so please take a few minutes to watch the video and see how you can help.<\/p>\n

Please use the links such as the Facebook share link, to share this page with your friends.\u00a0 Copy the address of the page (http:\/\/paulgoodchild.net\/blog\/cat-volunteering\/pcs-for-migrant-children-campaig\/) and email to your friends asking them to consider helping out too.\u00a0 Your help in spreading the word about this project is hugely appreciated!<\/p>\n

The Video<\/h2>\n

The video is just under 5 minutes and is a walkabout around the school grounds I took this week.\u00a0 It begins with the kindergarten area and at the time of taking this video, they were at play-time.\u00a0 It then shows the park they have, and then on to the classrooms. The first class you see being taught is an English class.\u00a0 The teacher has okay English but that’s all they’ve got for English training (except for native-English speaking volunteers).\u00a0 After the classrooms I simply take a walk around the back to show you the washing up area.\u00a0 I could take a lot more footage, but think this is fairly representative.\u00a0 There is no “computer lab”.<\/p>\n

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If you can’t watch Youtube where you are, you can watch the alternative video on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Project<\/h2>\n

I want to get computers into this school, and other schools in the area.\u00a0 There are around 65 migrant schools catering for migrant Karen and Burmese children.\u00a0 This school in the video has around nearly 200 students and not a single working computer among them, and this is a similar story repeated throughout the schools.<\/p>\n

I don’t necessarily want to create miracles here and kit them out with a computing suite, but I want to get these guys 1 or 2 desktop PCs from which they can gain a familiarity with computing.\u00a0 Finances allowing, I want to then repeat this for as many schools in the area as possible.<\/p>\n

What do the children stand to gain from having these computers?<\/p>\n