======================English Version======================(Updated 25-02-2019) Requester Information: (*) is a mandatory field -------------------------------- RequestorÔsâ Name(*): Josephat Obodo RequestorÔs Email Address(*): obodo@bistum-muenster.de Your Organization(*): Canaan School Uboji, Nigeria Organization Website / Facebook: Your Labdoo account user name (https://www.labdoo.org/user/register): -------------------------------- Project Site: Uboji-Ngwo Nigeria, Africa -------------------------------- 1. Project title or name of your school, project, or NGO - A short title or description for your project(*):Canaan School Uboji, Nigeria 2. Project Description - Please explain about your project and how you will use the laptops (*): I was at St. Joseph Parish Uboji Ngwo from August 2008 to February 2010 as their pioneer Parish Priest. Then, there was neither Church building nor Parish house. A Church structure was built during my stay there. However, the poverty of the village people was then and is still today of a big concern to me. Moving two kilometers west from Uboji, is a motor park in an area called 9th mile. It is at this place that inhabitants of Uboji area go to, in search of means of survival. Thus, most of them, that are largely unschooled, take to petty trading along the very busy park and motor way. Thus, leading to a situation where under-aged children run after fast moving vehicles in order to sell some of their goods, mostly bread and water. Some of the young girls take to prostitution at 9th mile motor Park with its attendant dangers. Also, the Children are subjected by their helpless parents to Child labour. Back in the village, the inhabitants engage in hard farm work. The issue that is most disheartening is that a family of seven may spend their life for a whole year working in the farm just to earn something not worth more than 10,000 Naira (Û30). Living in this pathetic situation, the Uboji people have no other place of succor outside the Church vis-ˆ-vis the Priest. The pressure from the people made me to think of how the church could better the life of the villagers. After meetings, prayers, and consultations, I realized that to begin a change we need to train agents of change. Therefore, some of the church members started a formal school system in Uboji. We started with 63 children but today we have 158 children receiving lessons in the school. So, Uboji School was founded in 2008 in Uboji-Ngwo Nigeria from the smallest beginnings by the Catholic community Uboji, in the spirit of Òhope and future for the childrenÓ. Thanks to persistent work, many helpers, sponsors and donors, this school project can help people to help themselves in the long term afford children for the poor. Our goals: In Uboji-Nigeria there are numerous children who are in great financial need. It is particularly bad for such children when their families expect the children to contribute to the family upkeep. Many families cannot afford state schools. There are also many half-orphans and street children to whom this also applies. That's why we set up this school so that all children can learn. We all want to enjoy learning. We have placed the children at the center of our school project in Uboji. We give girls and boys a voice. We are committed to ensuring that girls and boys have the same rights and opportunities. We work with local people. This means that we not only help to improve the life of a single child, but we help to change the entire village in a sustainable way. But our greatest Challenge is that there are more children that need help of which we cannot alone do. It is in response to this that I shared my burden with the members of my former parish here in Germany (Pfarrei St. Franziskus Isselburg). Fortunately, they welcomed the idea of assisting some of the indigent children with their school materials and fees. 72 children receive their writing materials, school uniform and sandals from some members of Pfarrei St. Franziskus. The world is evolving and children in this school need also to evolve positively with the time. Therefore, I thought it helpful if the children get to know more about computer. Some of the teachers have basic knowledge of computer but there is only one computer in the school for the 158 pupils. I, therefore, solicit your help in providing more laptops for the pupils and the teachers. 3. Number of students(*): 158 4. Number of teachers(*): 13 5. Claimed IT equipments (*): Laptop 5.1 Number of Laptops needed(*): 10 5.2 Number of eBook Reader needed: 5.3 Others needed (Tablet-PCs etc): 5.4 Additional comments: 6. On Site Contact Information / project manager. Please provide at least one way to contact (*): Telephone +234 8076139197 6.1 Full Name(*): Daniel Nnadi 6.2 Phone(*):+234 8076139197 6.3 Email(*): ndubisindubisi@yahoo.com 6.4 Physical address of Organization (street, city, zip code, country...)(*): Canaan School Uboji-Ngwo, Enugu State, Nigeria, Africa. 6.5 GPS coordinates (click the link to find the coordinates: https://www.gps-coordinates.net or https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539)(*): 7. Language : English 7.1 Local / Preferred language(s)(*): Igbo and English 7.2 Additional information about language(s): 8. Project Location - street, city, state/province, country, zip code(*): Uboji-Ngwo, Enugu State, Nigeria, Africa. 9. Access to Internet(*): Yes 9.1 Access to internet (yes/no) 9.2 Wired/cable (yes/no) 9.3 Wireless (yes/no) 10. Conditions about the room where the laptops will be installed: We have classrooms that are good secured. 10.1 Is the room secure? [yes / no + brief explanation]: Yes. The classrooms are located in the center of the village and well secured. 10.2 Can the room be locked in a way that the supervisors (e.g. teachers) can control access? [yes / no + brief explanation]: Yes. The teachers have keys and locks to the classrooms. 10.3. Is the room weather-proof? (e.g. does the room protect the laptops from rain, sand, etc?) [yes / no + brief explanation]: Yes, the rooms have roof and windows. 11. How did you hear about Labdoo?: From a Friend. --Search Engine (e.g. Google) --At local Conference, --At online Conference, --From other organizations/companies, --Facebook --Instagram --Other (please describe) 12. Picture(s) of the school, students, teacher, etc with this Request Form. Please send as file(s) (*): Yes The picture will be uploaded to your project site ***The solicitation of a Labdoo laptop request implies that, upon receiving the laptops, the recipient agrees with the "Labdoo Laptop Recipient Agreement". ---------------------------------------------------- Labdoo Laptop Recipient Agreement: ---------------------------------------------------- Dear Laptop receiver: We are very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to your project by providing technology to help bridge the digital divide. With every right comes responsibilities. Technology, when adequately used, can provide very powerful means to aid those that are most in need. But if used improperly, it can also damage our environment. By receiving the above items, you are automatically accepting to abide by the following Labdoo global responsibilities: (1) The items received will be used only for the purpose described by your organization at the time you solicited this donation. (1.1) If you intend to use it for a different purpose, you will contact first the Labdoo team at contact@labdoo.org. (1.2) Only schools and projects may claim for Labdoo computer donations and not by individuals. (1.3) Donated items may only be removed from school ground with admittance of Labdoo (example, teachers cannot take laptops outside school). If Labdoo reviser visit your project and discovered donated items are missing, your school / project will be excluded from Labdoo support and CANNOT receive any further donation. (2) In the case that an incidence occurs to any of the received items, you will contact the Labdoo team at contact@labdoo.org, including in your email the tagging number of the item(s) related to the incidence and a brief explanation. The following incidences must always be reported: (2.1) At the end of life of any of the received items, so that the item can be properly recycled. (2.2) When an item breaks, malfunctions or any change in its status. (3) Every six months, please send an email to contact@labdoo.org with the list of laptops that you have and their status (working or not working). (4) Labdoo laptops are offered for free to you for education purposes. In return, you agree to not use the laptops for commercial reasons and you agree not to charge any fee for the usage of the laptops. (4.1) The donated items cannot be resold to make money or exchange with other valuable items. (4.2) If discovered donated items are missing, your school / project will be excluded from Labdoo support and CANNOT receive any further donation. (5) By returning this form filled in, the solicitor confirms owning all rights on sent materials (current or in the future) submitted to Labdoo.org and allowing such content to be publicly available from Labdoo.org. In addition, the solicitor confirms having approval for taking pictures of the children and/or any person benefiting from Labdoo laptops, tablets or any Labdoo donations, from their parents and/or legal guardians. Labdoo.org explicitly points to the fact that sent materials and pictures/photos may be used online and/or offline, and hence that they can be accessed by third parties, and that such pictures are used to help preserve the transparency and accountability of the projects. We thank you for your commitment to make our world a better place and we wish you best of luck in your humanitarian mission. The Labdoo Team.