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New e-Learning for Kids Brochure Available Now! Please View and Share it With Others!

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 Please help us "spread the word" by sharing it with others! We appreciate your support in helping children around the world with education! Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on May 20, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

e-LearningForKids.org stole the stage at the 7th Annual Chicagoland Learning Leaders Conference held on November 7th at the Q Center.

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. Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on November 9, 2008 at 4:25pm — No Comments

EFK Visit to Rotary Club of Vientiane Capital Laos

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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Added by Dirk Tussing on July 20, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

Dirk's Picture Blog of Day 6: Rotary2008 Convention

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

Added by Dirk Tussing on June 18, 2008 at 8:58pm — No Comments

Dirk's Picture Blog of Day 5: Rotary2008 Convention

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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Added by Dirk Tussing on June 17, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Dirk's Picture Blog of Day 4: Rotary2008 Convention

Today was another amazing day with amazing people helping change the world. The morning started with meeting Neshad Asllani from Kosova. The Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Club helped Kosova introduce Rotary – their first club was just formed a year or two ago, Neshad shared that they now have five clubs. Neshad is a member of this website if you want to reach out to him. I showed Neshad the poster in Laotian Philakone Khounphon is creating. Neshad was keen to create on for Kosova to share at all th… Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on June 16, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Dirk's Picture Blog of Day 3: Rotary2008 Convention

The Rotary International Convention officially opened today. The foot traffic at the project exhibit booths is heavier than yesterday. Since our booth has one of the few $100 laptops, also known as the One-Laptop-Per-Child or OLPC that was developed at MIT. Several people are stopping by to touch it – the OLPC definitely draws people in to start a conversation. I just talked to Harriet Downer (Denver, CO) who has been monitoring the OLPC for the last two years and was commenting that their blog… Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on June 15, 2008 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Dirk's Picture Blog of Day 2: Rotary2008 Convention

It was great to see Mike Ericksen, District Governor for 6440, and his wife Cheryl stopped by our booth and I met more DG’s today then I’ve met in the last two years since I joined Rotary. The day was full of learning amazing projects that are helping people in need around the world. It wasn’t until 3 pm that I figured out that the convention doesn’t officially start until Tomorrow. So the crowds today were much smaller than will be jamming floor tomorrow. Our booth is located in the south tower… Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on June 14, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Dirk's Picture Blog of Day 1: Rotary2008 Convention

I’ll plan to post a daily picture blog through June 19th to capture highlights and reflections of my first RI convention. Meghan Desai fedex’d a second generation Intel-powered ClassmatePC yesterday to my sister’s home in California and I picked it up on my way arrived at the Los Angeles Convention Center to set-up booth #1307 at the 2008 Rotary International Convention (www.rotary2008.com). Tom and I completed the… Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on June 13, 2008 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

Give Children A Choice's mission is to build and fill preschools with children in Asia (www.GiveChildrenAChoice.org)

I met Debbie and Dori in Washington, DC at the Laos embassy new year celebration. They are deeply involved helping the children of Laos and starting to plan for computers in their pre-schools. Here is a little more on their NGO... Background Give Children A Choice's mission is to build and fill preschools with children in Asia Give Children A Choice believes that education is a strong catalyst for poverty reduction. It's primary objective is to raise the educational achievement for pr… Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on May 30, 2008 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Give Children A Choice Newsletter (Spring, 2008)

Give Children A Choice has made tremendous progress since our last newsletter. Several new preschools, health fairs, two successful and productive trips and much more. Read about our progress in our Spring 2008 newsletter by clicking the following link: http://givechildrenachoice.googlepages.com/springnewsletter2008

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Added by Dirk Tussing on May 30, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

Our 2551 New Year Gift to All the Children of Lao People's Democratic Republic

On Saturday, May 17, 2008, Dirk Tussing (Winnetka-Northfield Rotary Club), Nick van Dam (EFK, not present), Chuck Theusch & Ross Worley (Library of Laos) presented a certificate to the Honorable Ambassador Philakone at the PDR LAO EMBASSY located at 2222 S St.… Continue

Added by Dirk Tussing on May 19, 2008 at 7:00am — 1 Comment