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From: Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 1:56:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Looking for an Intern - July 5th to August 15 - Nairobi, Kenya

Am currently a student at the university of nairobi and would
appreciate the opportunity if I would be considered . . . .

On 6/3/09, Bernard Owuor <b_owuor@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Looking for an Intern - July 5th to August 15 - Nairobi, Kenya
> Yesterday at 9:48pm
> Dear Friends --
> The Children of Kibera Foundation is looking for a college intern to
> work for us on a project for five or six weeks this summer in Nairobi -
> July 5th to August 14th
>
> It is an unpaid internship, although the foundation will provide the
> intern with a one-time grant of USD 500 (or the equivalent in Kenyan
> Shillings), and could help with identifying suitable housing with a
> host family within the community at Olympic Estate or at a hostel
> within an easy commute of the project site.
>
> The intern will work on phase two of our "KiberaOnline Schools" project
> whereby our foundation provides computer equipment and sets up a
> computer lab/classroom for schools that educate Kibera's under-served
> children. This includes responsibility for basic hardware and software
> management in a lab with about 15 laptop computers, a printer, and
> scanner, possibly an internet connection and wireless network. The
> intern will need a strong set of personal and technical skills to be a
> manager and a teacher, training adult teachers intensively, as well as
> high school level teenagers, and little children ages 3 to 8 on how to
> use the computers for a variety of learning and work purposes.
>
> Please let me know if you have any students in mind, perhaps one who is
> coming to Kenya for the fall and could arrive earlier in the summer or
> one who is there for a summer course and could stay on longer.
> Lastly, whoever the intern is, they will not be working alone on this
> project. They will be working with another intern who is a 2009
> graduate of Georgetown University that will be there for six weeks, and
> will get assistance from our projects coordinator Jeff and the teachers
> of the school where we are putting up this new lab.
>
> You can see photos of Kibra Academy, the partner school where we will be
> setting up this new lab at
> http://picasaweb.google.com/okothjapheth/KibraAcademy#
>
> Media coverage about the first lab we opened at the Red Rose School
> illustrate the possibilities for such a project being opened at Kibra
> Academy and other schools in Kibera in the future. Read a New York
> Times Article here about the Red Rose computer lab
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/nyregion/28bronxville.html
>
> Please forward this message to your students who might be interested in this
> opportunity.
>
> They can get back to me through email ken@childrenofkibera.org or phone
> 202-288-0764
>
> Thanks, Ken Okoth
>
>
>


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Regards,

Mark Mwangi

http://mwangy.wordpress.com
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