Waveplace in Haiti

March 21st ... Leaving for Haiti

I'm sitting here with Beth Santos, about to board a plane to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti where we'll be joined by Bill Stelzer and John Engle.

After spending the night at John's house, we'll fly to the island of Lagonav where we'll start a two week workshop at Matènwa Community Learning Center with Chris Low, Benaja Antoine, 20 trainee mentors, and 26 children. Our goal is for these twenty mentors to train another twenty mentors, so that they can all lead eight Waveplace pilots using XO laptops and Squeak Etoys, all in the next two months. Hopefully this will set the stage for a much larger deployment this summer, starting with our expanded workshop in St John in late May (May 24th to June 2nd).

I'd like to extend a huge thank you to OLPC for redonating the 200 laptops that are being used by the 40 mentors and 160 children in Haiti. Adam, Nia, Matt, and SJ have been invaluable to Waveplace in the last two months. OLPC is truly a great organization.

I've been blogging each morning for the last ten days, and will continue to blog every morning throughout the next six weeks. Follow along at:

http://waveplace.com/news/blog

We'll also be twittering frequently, so please subscribe to:

http://twitter.com/waveplace

Anyway, here we go folks. It's been a busy two months, but we'll be there in a few hours.

Send XO Laptops and Flash Memory

Please send XO Laptops, SD memory cards, and USB flash drives to:

Waveplace Foundation Inc.
1838 Alder Lane
Bethlehem PA 18015

January 26th ... Waveplace Plan to Help Haiti (2010)

After talking non-stop with dozens of people and groups over the last two weeks, Waveplace has settled on a plan to help Haiti in the coming four months.

Tonight I've uploaded three videos describing this plan. Please forgive the roughness of my presentation (and my tired haggard look). This was simply the quickest way for me to put the details of the plan online for all to see. I will be transcribing the videos tomorrow for those that would rather read text.

Here are the videos:

The transcription will be here tomorrow: http://haiti.waveplace.com

We welcome the ideas and labor of all who care to help. To keep up to date with Waveplace's work in Haiti . . .

1. follow us on twitter

2. join our facebook group.

3. read our blog.

We'll be posting several times a day for the foreseeable future. Please spread the word. For bigger news, you can also subscribe to our newsletter:

http://waveplace.com/subscribe/

If you'd like to help, then please contact us:

http://waveplace.com/contact/

Below you'll find video shorts from our first pilot in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
All video by William Stelzer of Waveplace Foundation.

Date	Movie	Formats
1/6/08	Susie Shows the XO in Haiti
2/20/08	Giving Laptops to the Children