Makama Vocational College is a very poorly resourced technical training college in Makeni, east of Freetown.
Previously,
they had just four old computers - powered by a very small
generator, useing typewriters to teach keyboard skills before allowing
students onto the PCs.
They had no IT training resources at all - the only resource we saw last year was a diagram drawn on the blackboard.
Over 250 students attend the technical college, studying courses such as sewing, blacksmithing, farming and carpentry.
There is a high level of demand for computing skills - and they have the space to put machines into 3 separate classrooms.
We have equipped them with 15 computers, with edubuntu, plus a super new generator to power the pc's and more !
We are now putting together a shipment of tools and other equipiment together, to support them in their other teaching areas.
