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The project at a glance
Name of Project: Solar Energy for 100 "Teacher's Pedagogical
Workshops" in Africa
Applicant: The Federation for Associations connected to the
International HUMANA People to People Movement
Implementor:
Time Period: 1997
Amount Granted: 2,000,000 Dkr
Amount Paid: 0 Dkr
Description of the Project: The establishment of small solar energy
systems for the production of electricity for pedagogical workshops at
rural schools in southern Africa.
Status and Conclusion of the Project: The project was not carried
out, since the grant was withdrawn. |
Solar Energy Systems at Pedagogical Workshops
Humana People to People has during the past few years established eleven
teacher training colleges with the name "The School for the Teachers of the
Future" (Escola de Professores do Futuro, EPF). Five of these are located
in Angola (Benguela, Cabinda, Caxito, Huambo and Luanda) and six are located in
Mozambique (Cabo Delgado, Chimoio, Maputo, Nacala, Nhamatanda, and Niassa). At
the moment of writing, in the spring 2001, a total of 1,238 students are
attending, and as of February 2001, 1,100 teachers have graduated.
The objective is to educate teachers for rural primary schools, where there
is an especially disastrous lack of capable and engaged teachers. People who
have an education are usually attracted to the cities where the opportunities to
find work and the salaries are bigger, and life itself more diverse and
exciting.
A Pedagogical Workshop is located right in the rural areas, near a school,
and it services the teacher council of the school as well as the teachers from
all the neighboring schools located within walking distance. It will always be
located where there are between one and three EPF educated teachers to run it.
What is a Pedagogical Workshop?
It is a room of app. 50 m2 with 1-3 computers, a printer, a TV
with a video which can be watchedthrough a hole in the wall by many people
outside, as well as a radio with a tape recorder. In the computer there is a
digital library with knowledge about all kinds of things in this world, as well
as the whole curriculum of EPF. At the Pedagogical Workshops the teachers can
get help and assistance with planning their education, and there are also
courses held for the teachers.
In order to use these modern tools you need electricity, and it is not by any
means sure to be available in the village. Yet, the electricity is needed -
- for the radio, in order to hear the news from ones own country and from
the rest of the world, to hear other music than the village’s own, and to
hear the school programs which thenew national radio stations are
broadcasting.
- for the TV, in order to watch news, films and other entertainment and
information, as well as again to watch the national educational and cultural
programs.
- for the video player, which rapidly can become the whole village’s
movie theater.
- for the computer, with its extensive database of knowledge and study
plans and the possibilities it gives for being able to write ones tasks,
articles, poems, thoughts and plans, and preferably also for access to the
internet and to the communication via e-mail with other schools, and
Pedagogical Workshops, and the whole world. The printer and the scanner top
it all - voilá! Here we have the plans printed out, the tasks, the
considerations, the poems, the stories, the drawings, the pictures... for
the benefit and joy and information and discussion for all; an important
factor of the quality of people’s daily life, and, in a larger
perspective, a push forward in development towards more informed and modern
conditions.
As a contribution to this, Humana People to People wanted to establish small
solar energy systems by the Pedagogical Workshops. Partly to get them to work at
all, but also to show an example of a road ahead towards a more broad
application of solar energy, which would mean a relief from environmental
pollution locally, and hopefully at the same time create a push in the right
direction towards creating a sensible environment policy for the future -
nationally, regionally, and globally.
In 1997Humana People to People had plans to establish 100 Pedagogical
Workshops in village schools in Mozambique and Angola. In June 1997 Humana
People to People applied for a grant of 2,000,000 Dkr for solar energy systems
at these 100 workshops. This was only a preliminary application, since Humana
People to People wanted to collect quotations and later account more precisely
for the project conditions and for the time plan. The application asked to have
the amount reserved until later in 1997, and for the subsequent two years. The
final application would be presented before the end of 1997.
A few days later, in June 1997, the Foundation's board of directors approved
the provision of the 2 million Dkr. Meanwhile, Humana People to People did not
manage to finance the establishment of the 100 Pedagogical Workshops. As there
at the same time was an intensified awareness of the dimensions of the AIDS
catastrophe in southern Africa, the board of the Foundation decided instead to
use the funds in the fight against AIDS.
Thus this project did not come into being in this round, but the idea is
obviously still just as good.
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