It’s been months now since we decided to formally formed a group in the Philippines called eKindling which is short for Education Kindling, eKindling will allow us to further and bring in the education project in our very own country the Philippines.
eKindling is the result of the collaboration of people who’s been supportive in bringing OLPC’s mission and vision to the Philippines.
The question is how is it coming along? I’m pretty amazed on how people respond given we haven’t really fully launched the organization, but we tremendously received support volunteers to help what’s been on our plate for quite sometimes now. Like…
We’re set to get our non-profit status by the second week of September or sooner than this.
We’ve signed up two new Board members and still in search for more nominees.
The website is in progress and hopefully will have a polished and final site by the end of this month. Many thanks to all the volunteers.
Our team mates (Jerome, Ryan and Sandeep) are also set to talk to the Y4IT youth summit and they will do a 30 minute presentation about eKindling and the OLPC’s sugar activity development.
A partnership agreement with two intending Universities are about to be set and hopefully garner us a pool of students who will develop in Sugar.
Also, content development is now being develop along side of things, from squeak/etoys to current sugar activities. Cherry is about to unleash her developing skills on writing up some lesson/activity plans in a Philippine context, and hopefully I can jump in quickly to help her.
A free office space is on the fly???! at first is this for real?! a free office space right in the heart of Manila? We can’t afford that the utilities and all miscellaneous things …and our donor said it’s all free? WOW! I’m amazed on how things are coming along with eKindling. But as the saying goes crossing our fingers about all this and we’re all cautiously optimistic about this whole thing until it gets finalized.
With regards to the pilot test, we just recently proposed a pilot test plan in OLPC’s contributors program. It still in progress and we’re strategically straightening some check points to finally get the community’s approval on our proposal. We’re hoping also that once we get incorporated we can start the fundraising.
So, if you come across this blog plz feel free to contact mmago At ekindling dot org or visit our sites wiki and eKindling website! or email us community At ekindling dot org.
Mabuhay ang batang Filipino!



