Hi.
You're Brazilian, right ?
Would you know how to address the Lusophone community on the Fediverse?
I've been teaching "computers" in a primary school in the Dakar suburbs (cf https://librefaso.pollux.casa/sjbm2023.gmi ) and six of my pupils are from a Bissau-Guinean family.
They're struggling at school due to them not mastering neither the local language nor the teaching language (French) but they're highly motivated.
I'd like them to have a computer so that they can pursue their work on it after my departure, but I absolutely cannot buy it myself as it will not be understood by other pupils (and for good reason).
That's why I'm looking for someone with a reason to make such a gift to them, and thought of lusophone solidarity as a possible justification for it.
I don't really believe in "One laptop per child" but "one laptop for a family of six" seems quite right to me...
I had two orphan pupils (well, half orphans, since their mothers are still alive; but it's a conservative society and man is still the breadwinner here) to whom I'd like to give a computer too, but one shares her first name with my sister (and homonymy - well, eponymity actually - is important here) so she agreed to buy the computer for the kid, and the other one was the only kid who came to all my lessons so I can afford to buy her a computer myself as a reward for her seriousness.
But again, for the six Bissau-Guineans kids I don't have such an excuse so I cannot play favorites.
Second-hand computers here are quite expensive but with 100 € or a little bit more I should be able to find something for them (both PrimTux and Emmabüntus, the distributions I intend to give them in dual-boot, are very light and designed to work on very old computers).
So I guess it should be doable to find someone willing to give this money, I just don't know how to find him/her.
I still need someone willing to give a computer to a family of six recently migrated from Bissau-Guinea...
They're very motivated pupils, I believe that they deserve it, but I cannot give it myself as they're not my only pupils and I don't have the money to give a computer to all of the pupils.
I am still in need of a computer (I can buy one here for around 100 €, maybe less) for a family of six of my pupils, who are struggling in their studies in what is for them a foreign language but are highly motivated....
I only have ten more days here, so it's quite urgent as I would need to buy the computer, install it with #Primtux, and meet the family so as to ensure that the kids will share the computer harmoniously,.
#donate #aide #Fedihelp
(please boost if you can't #help yourself)
Someone found a laptop for me in Paris but it's very unlikely that he'd be able to send it to me (for less that the price of a computer here) before I leave in ten days...
So I'm quite stranded here and on a short rope.
(add any relevant metaphor)
(I actually wrote unconsciously "on a short hope" instead of "on a short rope")
A few people have offered to help, thanks to them (and to those who boosted).
About how :
As I explained, I mostly need a patron in order to tell the pupils that somebody else made the decision to give the computer to this family (and not to another one).
While I'd be happy to get the 100 € back since I'm not rich, I can front the cost myself while I wait for us to find together a way to transfer the money to me.
So, what I need if you want to help is for you to :
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(things I need you to do if you want to help, continued)
1 - Write a postcard to the kids, telling them that you're happy to help since they are that motivated (and that you understand their struggle in a foreign country, if you want)
2 - Write me a IOU for the amount of the computer
3 - Tell me what proof of delivery to the kids you will require to actually deliver me the money once we figure out how
Thanks in advance !
Someone kindly paid for the computer for the family of six, thanks to her (and to those who put the situation to her attention).
Actually, she was kind enough to give a bit more money, so I can buy a few computers to the school itself (for the use of all my pupils, and other pupils at school).
For those in Germany who would be interested to also help, there is a German non-profit that can collect the money and transfer it here, for the next two weeks (the non-profit's founder and manager died recently, and the interim manager agreed to transfer any money received before the non-profit's shutdown in two weeks).
(feel free to translate that in German if you wish !)
The school could use more computers, also they're in need of patrons to pay for the scholarship of children from poor families (but families that value education).
And the director is searching for money to put a roof on the first floor or her school (on a building she rents, so not the best idea imho, but anyway the first floor is built, so it's too late to complain, leaving it without a roof would be even less smart).
I'd also like to provide computers to the center that teaches #deaf kids in Joal-Fadiouth (which was created by the school director's sister, before her sudden death a few years ago - the director would like the center to thrive, in memory of her baby sister); I'm not sure that it would be possible through the non-profit though, I'm waiting for the interim non-profit's manager's answer on that topic.
Anybody intending to help should felle free to DM me for the non-profit's details.
LibreFaso