[squeakland] Fundraiser for Replacing Textbooks project

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 19:02,  <kharness at illinois.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> A good idea; I am happy to contribute to this purpose.
> Regards,
> Kathleen

Thank you very much.

> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:53:33 -0400
>>From: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
>>Subject: [squeakland] Fundraiser for Replacing Textbooks project
>>To: "squeakland.org mailing list" <squeakland at squeakland.org>
>>
>>I have set up a fundraiser, http://www.crowdrise.com/Replacetextbooks/
>>to raise $10,000 for a server and other expenses at Sugar Labs to
>>create collaborative, interactive, digital textbook replacements for
>>up to a billion children at a time using Sugar and in particular Etoys.
>>That's a million pennies, or a thousandth of a cent per child.
>>
>>There are of course significant other expenses in the overall program,
>>mostly for buying computers to run Sugar and let students work with
>>our digital materials and others. I estimate the total cost at $25
>>billion annually, to be provided by governments and aid agencies,
>>mostly. When we succeed in getting rid of poverty and its associated
>>ills, and bring the rest of the world up to the standard of the
>>developed countries, that will add about $200 trillion to global GDP.
>>Among the ills associated with poverty, especially the dire poverty of
>>those living on $1 a day, or 50 cents a day, or less, are disease,
>>death, helplessness, hopelessness, government corruption, oppression,
>>and so on.
>>
>>What's it worth to you to put a dent in these problems, and get the
>>children ready to finish the project and then tackle the next round of
>>_hard_ problems? Can you pay forward, for those less fortunate, $10?
>>$25? $50? More?
>>
>>Please don't spam this message, but do pass it on where appropriate.
>>
>>--
>>Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
>>Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
>>The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
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Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
http://www.earthtreasury.org/