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