Hi,
Sikshana (http://www.sikshana.org) won a best NGO award from the citizens of Bangalore for its initiative to improve the quality of public education:
http://citizensalliance.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/good-samaritans-some-of- bangalore-recognised
One of the key empowerment initiative in Sikshana revolved around using Etoys on a memory stick (as a personal "soft" computer) to get children to express their ideas freely unhindered by the fear running out of (precious) supplies like paper, pen or paint. The pilot started in a handful of schools in 2007 and then spread, by popular demand from teachers, to 120 schools today with many more waiting in the pipeline. Details are in http://sikshana.blogspot.com.
Sikshana is a tiny organization with only 15 employees guiding 250 school and 30k children. That we were able to scale to this level is because of the support of patrons and volunteers across the world.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all developers, past and present, of Squeak and Etoys and let them know that their work is making a big difference in the lives of middle school children in the remote village schools in India.
Thank you .. Subbu
etoys-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org