Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

A pricing manifesto proposes that members of the community that can afford the software should support the project financially. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. They talked about the economic value of housework, and the importance of education and literacy in gaining economic independence." In small groups, the women learned basic business and marketing skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions.

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