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Dear Colleague,
All of us are teachers.
We may not work in a school, or get paid the ridiculously low salaries teachers earn, but we still teach in some way. We teach each other; we teach our own kids how to navigate life; we share our view of the world. So then, how do you teach someone about dignity? I recently got the chance to visit a secondary school in Amman and talk to students about dignity.
It sounded pretty simple. We had a syllabus. We had posters. We had a translator. We were completely unprepared. Why? Because the students, who spoke better English than I do, had a better understanding about dignity than most people I have ever met.
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Dan Shine
50x15 Program Director
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The NEPAD Journey Continues...
Phase one moves full steam ahead with students in four additional countries now empowered with ICT solutions.
Some of you may recall last September's article about work we have done with the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) e-Schools Initiative, which aims to prepare Africa for the future by imparting ICT skills and knowledge to the young generation, who constitute the majority of Africa's population, to enable them to function and participate as equals in the emerging global economy and information society of the 21st century. In September, we had just completed deployments at three schools in Uganda and hinted at other projects that were in the works.
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