Linking people after the earthquake in Chile

Summary

The Mobile Telecenter is giving access to and training on ICT skills to families, NGOs and small businesses that are struggling to get back on their feet several months after an earthquake hit Chile. progress report read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of £1,878 was raised for this project.

Received £1,878 from 29 donations from people around the world like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Several Months after an 8.8 earthquake hit the south and central parts of Chile, communications are among the most urgent needs. In the areas most affected, people, NGOs and small businesses are still trying to get back on their feet. The project is giving the Chileans communication access and training NGOs and small bussiness owners on ICT skills, in order to make their efforts more productive and efficient. The project also aims to raise funds to restore NGOs' IT Infrastructure.

Activities

Primarily this project will give access to communications through the internet to over 2.000 people in different towns of Chile, establishing exchange of information between victms and NGOs. Secondly it will replace NGOs' destroyed IT equipment.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £1,878

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled £1,878. The original project funding goal was £46,368.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

In establishing communication, the project will help the victms of the earthquake to get aid. In addition, providing IT equipment will put NGOs back on track, making it possible to them get back to work.

Project Message

"We from CDI are now concentrating on helping the Chileans to overcome this tragedy. We are mobilising our offices and our partners around the globe in order to restablish communication channels."
- Rodrigo Baggio, CDI founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Luisa Gockel,

199 Bishopgate
6th floor
London, Greater London EC2M 3XW
United Kingdom
+44 207 678 7471
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Digital Inclusion

Organisation

Center for Digital Inclusion
Rua Alice 150 Laranjeiras
Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22.241-020
Brazil
55 (21) 3235-9450
http://www.cdiglobal.org

Learn more about Center for Digital Inclusion and the project team.

Center for Digital Inclusion's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Displaced Residents in Chile Learn IT Skills

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Chile and can also be found under Disaster Recovery.

For more information about Chile, read the Human Development Report on Chile or the Wikipedia entry for Chile.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 02, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 04, 2010.

Latest Update from the Field

Our impact - final report

By Javier Figueroa - Executive Director, June 02, 2011 11:11 AM

Chillan course

On the 2nd of March the Mobile Telecentre had its final activity, with the graduation the participants from the computer courses which took place within partner NGOs in the earthquake and tsunami affected areas. This graduation was very special for it took place within a School for Children with special needs, with the participation of a representative of Global Giving as well as from the Canadian Embassy in Chile.

The impact of the project can be summarized in:

Over 1.000 beneficiaries during the first three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami, giving access to communication and basic IT services to affected communities, military and NGOs giving aid to these communities such as Red Cross and Hogar de Cristo.

5 NGOs and over 300 course participants benefited from the second stage of the mobile telecentre. The 300 participants gained computer skills to improve their employ-ability as well as for their use in their current jobs and micro companies. Each NGO also received a computer for their office at the end of the project.

We want to thank each one that contributed with a donation to make this second stage of the mobile telecentre possible as well as Global Giving for making this platform available and for visiting us in March.

All our best from Chile.

CDI Chile

Cabrero course

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