======================English Version======================(Updated 25-02-2019) Requester Information: (*) is a mandatory field -------------------------------- Requestor’s Name(*): Mavis Durowaa Mainu Requestor’s Email Address(*): mayvmainu@gmail.com / mavis@oakfoundation.org Your Organization(*): Oak Foundation Organization Website / Facebook: website: http://www.oakfoundation.org/, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oakfoundationGhana/. Your Labdoo account user name (https://www.labdoo.org/user/register): -------------------------------- Project Site: Ejuraman Secondary School, Ghana -------------------------------- 1. Project title or name of your school, project, or NGO - A short title or description for your project(*): NGO name: Oak Foundation Short Title or description of project: Oak Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organisation, legally registered in Ghana in 2014. Our focus is to tackle to root cause of gender inequality through education, professional development and entrepreneurship. We do this through mentoring and skills training. Oak currently mentors Girls from 11 senior high schools/ secondary schools in Ghana with an average membership of 200 girls in each school, in total we have 2500 mentees. We focus on girls from underprivileged communities. Our vision is to be the largest NGO in Ghana sponsoring girls in education professional development and entrepreneurship and our mission is to make highly educated and professionals of young girls in Ghana. OAK Foundation establishes PAMGAD Clubs in Senior High Schools located in high risk communities, thus communities with high rates of female school drop out. Our activities include mentoring, skills training (including computer skills), leadership training, scholarships, extra tuition and other academic support services to young girls to enable them stay in school and perform well in their studies. 2. Project Description - Please explain about your project and how you will use the laptops (*): We do face a number of challenges in administering our programmes • Lack IT literacy skills; • Inability to introduce digital and self and e learning modules due to the lack of computer and technological equipment; • At the organisational level, we face huge obstacle in administering effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E). We have to resort to manual filling in of questionnaires and a lot paper printing which has a lot of negative environmental impacts due to lack of digital resource to resort to a digital means of monitoring and evaluation. Future Programmes Our future programmes are focused on IT, how to train our students for the future of work and education. • Basic computer skills training such as typing, training on Microsoft office; and • Science, technology, engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programmes eg robotics, coding and blogging. The laptops will be used to train students in IT both during our mentoring sessions and by the school. The school will also introduce IT lessons aimed at teaching students basic typing skills and Microsoft office usage. 3. Number of students(*): 450 4. Number of teachers(*):25 5. Claimed IT equipments (*) 5.1 Number of Laptops needed(*):100 5.2 Number of eBook Reader needed:25 5.3 Others needed (Tablet-PCs etc): Tablets, 50 5.4 Additional comments: These equipments can be donated in batches. We would also like to develop a long-term relationship where we can recieve a number of computer equipments each year. We work with a large number of rural schools, 11 at the moment and we will be happy to through collaboration with Labdoo support each of these schools with computer equipments. The current donation will go to one school. The current number of equipment request will enable 4 students to share one laptop, with extra support from the tablets. 6. On Site Contact Information / project manager. Please provide at least one way to contact (*): 6.1 Full Name(*): Portia Agyei Yeboah 6.2 Phone(*): 00233244463607 6.3 Email(*):yeboahportia@yahoo.com 6.4 Physical address of Organization (street, city, zip code, country...)(*): 2nd Floor Kenin Plaza Abuom Junction Kwabenya, Accra Ghana. 6.5 GPS coordinates (click the link to find the coordinates: https://www.gps-coordinates.net or https://support.google.com/maps/answer/18539)(*):Kwabenya Ghana 5.681207, -0.250929 7. Language 7.1 Local / Preferred language(s)(*): English 7.2 Additional information about language(s): 8. Project Location - street, city, state/province, country, zip code(*): Ejuraman Secondary School, P. O. Box 37, Ejura-Ashanti, Ejura, Ghana. 9. Access to Internet(*)? 9.1 Access to internet (yes/no): yes 9.2 Wired/cable (yes/no): yes 9.3 Wireless (yes/no): yes 10. Conditions about the room where the laptops will be installed: 10.1 Is the room secure? [yes / no + brief explanation]: highly secured with a lockable door. 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 room is locked with access only granted with the supervision of teachers who have the keys to the room. There are teachers to supervise students usage of the room all the time. 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 room has a roof and louvre blades windows that protect the room from rain and dust. 11. How did you hear about Labdoo?: --Search Engine (e.g. Google) --At local Conference, --At online Conference, --From other organizations/companies, --Facebook --Instagram --Other (please describe): Recommendation from a network colleague 12. Picture(s) of the school, students, teacher, etc with this Request Form. Please send as file(s) (*): 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.