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Hi everyone. We are happy to announce a new brochure so you can learn more about the foundation -- who we are, what we do and how we do it! You can view it at ==> http://e-learningforkids.org/EFK_brochure.pdf

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Nick van Dam was the keynote speaker at the 7th Annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference held in St. Charles, IL. Dirk Tussing posted photos in both his facebook and flickr account if you want to see them.

The short summary of my July 2008 trip to Laos is as follows:

Dirk sat next to Country Director, Thuy Pham (thuy@roomtoread.org),with www.RoomToRead.org Vietnam from HongKong to SGN (they have some amazing resources in place which you can take advantage of). Thuy explained how RTR-Vietnam is working on a project with QualComm & Vietnam's government to provide Internet to rural Vietnam. My understanding is they longer-term goal is to provide computer learning but they realize

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Finally, the pace of the convention started slowing down today. The traffic by our booth in the House of Friendship was sparse but still several new friends stopped by with learning opportunities for kids they are currently working. In total we collected contact inf… Continue

My friend Dr. Bondi from Rotary Club of Buenos Aires made sure Gustavo Giay stopped by our booth and we discussed our proposed 2009 initiatve to help provide computers for an elementary school in rural Tigre, Argentina (see 1st picture below). During the afternoon breakout session lead by David Flower, General Coordinator for the Literacy Resource Group, I enjoyed learing of the many literacy projects other clubs are working on around the globe.

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