EDUTWIN by Micha Schraven
SOME FACTS
The Edutwin foundation collects Apple Macbooks to reuse for sustainable, educational ICT projects developing countries. Edutwin is nonprofit and is currently managed by volunteers.
Edutwin Foundation is a nonprofit that reuses donated Apple MacBooks.
Edutwin Foundation kickstart social enterprises and supports educational ICT projects.
Edutwin has been active in Kenya since 2010, our last project is Ruralnet
A future EduTwin product :
the mobile "Classroom in a Box"
Classroom in a box is an orange pelicase that contains 8 charged macbooks
so a teacher can also teach in areas that do not have electricity.
OTHER SERVICES
Edutwin is a place where contributors can donate
Apple Macbooks, but also where people can place requests for EduTwin products.
Edutwin can advise other foundations and NGOs to transform their own ICT projects into self sustaining businesses, think of local Business Incubators and self supporting computer rooms. ~Be advised that this will require sufficient funds and dedication by you
EDUTWIN GUARANTEES
A secure data destruction and clean e-waste disposal
THE FACES BEHIND EDUTWIN
MEET
MICHA SCHRAVEN
I started IntroducingImacs.org in 2005, the direct reason being the availability of retired Apple computers, the international need for quality IT facilities, and me having the time to bring those to places where I thought they would be useful for education.
Through the years I was able to experiment a lot which resulted in many different projects that taught me this important lesson : if no one maintains it, the computers stop working and classes stop. Just like an office.
Building a computer project is nothing new, lots of charities do it, but they seem to stop budgeting after the room is completed, which is naive and not effective. So Africa is full of barely working IT classrooms that are unusable.
A successful project doesn't require a team of skilled IT staff either, in fact a project should be dead simple. Computers, power and internet. It just has to work.
In 2010 I joined edutwin as an university intern to conduct site surveys for a massive 800 computer program in West-Kenya. After the program failed Edutwin was disbanded in 2011. I decided to take matters in my own hand and proof that the original plan worked. Together with my friend Lawrence Odongo we kickstarted a whole new project involving starting our own business in the small Ugunja town.
Read more about Edutwins history and my philosophy here.
E-mail: chairman.micha@edutwin.nl
