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Re: Volunteering opportunities

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Post by xlnt » Thu, May 15, 2008, 6:51 PM UTC

marijn wrote: post #10

xlnt wrote: post #8

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What? Religion helped something? No way!!!11 edit: fine, be that way. i dare you to downvote this to -666. if you don't get all the way there though i'm gonna sue you.

Okay, help me out here, I really wanted to down-vote you but I have no downward arrows. Yet your negative score suggests that there really is a down-vote feature. Do only people with lots of karma get to downvote?

you only need about 20 or 25 karma to downvote. i upvoted you to help you on your way. please ignore my helpfulness and downvote my comment above anyway -- 16 people can't be wrong. pretty clearly i'm a troll who should probably be banned from news.yc.

Re: Volunteering opportunities

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Post by sutro » Thu, May 15, 2008, 7:09 PM UTC

CharityFocus is a tech-centric philanthropic organization that I can highly recommend:

http://charityfocus.org

Re: Volunteering opportunities

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Post by bk1 » Fri, May 16, 2008, 4:45 AM UTC

marijn wrote: post #9

Poleris wrote: post #4

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You sound like you have experience with this. Do you have more information?

Seconded. Africa is a bit of an opaque, far-off place to a lot of us, but the idea of going over there and sharing some skills definitely appeals to me.

A lot of aid money flows into Africa so monitoring and evaluation is a big problem.

Our charity www.rose-international.org is looking to have a basic web app developed that will allow local m&e of donor money that is used to pay for school fees (Tuition is charged for public schools here, and many kids are orphaned and have no way of paying the school fees).

Re: Volunteering opportunities

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Post by Poleris » Fri, May 16, 2008, 4:53 AM UTC

bk1 wrote: post #13

marijn wrote: post #9

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Seconded. Africa is a bit of an opaque, far-off place to a lot of us, but the idea of going over there and sharing some skills definitely appeals to me.

A lot of aid money flows into Africa so monitoring and evaluation is a big problem. Our charity www.rose-international.org is looking to have a basic web app developed that will allow local m&e of donor money that is used to pay for school fees (Tuition is charged for public schools here, and many kids are orphaned and have no way of paying the school fees).

I also wanted to reach out. I am working for an NGO in Zambia (http://www.project-educate.org) and we have a couple of projects that could use talented coders. One for example, would be a web application similar to MIT's OpenCourseWare, except designed for Zambian students.

We also aren't shy about sending people to Zambia to help out. If you're curious, or want more information, my email is in my profile. I'd love to hear from you.

Re: Volunteering opportunities

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Post by aitoehigie » Fri, May 16, 2008, 7:49 AM UTC

Poleris wrote: post #4

aitoehigie wrote: post #3

There is a huge void that you can fill with your skills here in Africa,that is if you are interested. I believe you will make more impact and touch lives than in the US,which i believe is saturated?

You sound like you have experience with this. Do you have more information?

if you are interested in coming to africa, and volunteering reach me at aitoehigie [at] gmail.com