Imagine Scholar, South Africa Provides unique, personalised education to promising youth in South Africa’s disadvantaged Nkomazi region, Imagine Scholar are group of motivated likeminded individuals. They strive to effect profound change on individual lives and empower the next generation of African leaders through creative, multidimensional development. Imagine Scholar have 8 of our digital libraries and are taking part in this years School SpaceRace. You can keep up to date on progress here… Project May, Uganda May Christian Collage, Nkumba, Entebbe, Uganda. Run by Jumba Kusasira. 2 Barnes and Noble Nooks 1,926 eBooks. Single Mother’s Association of Kenya Single Mothers Association of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. Nook Simple Touch with 1,584 eBooks run by Lesley Koyi. Mnarani Primary and Secondary School Yellobric’s first pilot scheme was officially launched on the 14th of September 2011 at Mnarani primary school, which is in the village of Mnarani on the Kenyan coast. 20 Kindle Keyboards where used to supplement what was a very poor selection of badly damaged books. Yellobric trained 250 pupils (out of 1,600) and 28 staff how to use the eReaders. In addition Yellobric funded and set up a Wi-Fi network so that pupils could use the devices to browse the web, look up words in Wikipedia and use email and social networking sites through the devices. The programme has now been expanded to include the Secondary School next door in partnership with Mnarani aid. Project Wulugu, Ghana Single eReader with 603 eBooks deployed at Walewale Vocational/Technical Institute, Ghana. Working with the UK bases charity Wulugu. Project Happy Child, Kenya Happy Child Primary School, Kenya. Nook Simple Touch, 1,606 eBooks. Project Philippi, Cape Town Working with SAEP in one of Cape Town poorest townships.
