Chiara Nosse, Jon Leposky, and Alex Rodrigues
2010: Various Partners in Peru
These three high-school students from San Diego received Seed Grant funding to travel to Peru and create a series of short videos documenting the inspiring work of a variety of different Omprakash Partners. Their videos will be designed for use as classroom resources by educators who are teaching about broader development issues in Latin America, and they will also emphasize the importance of international volunteering. Upon returning to the United States, Chiara, Jon, and Alex will share their videos via the Omprakash website and will embark on a speaking tour to introduce their work to secondary schools throughout southern California.
Alan Burns received a Seed Grant to support his efforts to make a series of documentary films exploring how Millenium Development Goals pertaining to education, healthcare, and human rights are being pursued by various Nepali organizations within the Omprakash network. By collaborating with Kerry Action for Development Education (KADE), an NGO in his native Ireland, Alan will distribute his documentaries to over fifty public high schools. He will also make these learning resources available online through the Omprakash website.
Alan Burns
2010: Various Partners in Nepal
In September, 2009, we gave a Seed Grant to Sam Modest and Rosalind Worcester. Sam and Roz used this grant to purchase eight cameras that will become the basis of a digital photo exchange that connects students around the world: while Roz teaches photography to students on the Maine coast, Sam will teach to students at Rainbow Academy in India. In January, Sam will take over the classes in Maine, and Roz will start to teach at P.A. Nepal. Throughout the year, Sam and Roz’s students will be sharing their photos with each other via a digital blog.
Sam Modest & Rosalind Worcester
2009: Rainbow Academy, India and P.A. Nepal
In May, 2009, we gave a Seed Grant to a group of students from Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, CA. These students had formed a group called Alternative Energy Sources, and used the Seed Grant to pay for production of a portable solar unit. AES then shipped the unit to a group of high school students from Brunswick, Maine, who had received a Volunteer Grant to serve our partner Yachay Wasi in Quito, Ecuador. The Maine students delivered the unit to Ecuador and monitored its performance. Alternative Energy Sources is now working to develop a new model of the solar unit, and plans to continue supplying low-cost alternative energy technology to Omprakash Partners in need.
Alternative Energy Sources -- Pacific Ridge School
2009: Yachay Wasi, Ecuador
In 2009, we gave a Seed Grant to Milia Fisher, a student at Francis Parker High School in San Diego. Milia used the Seed Grant to help obtain and deliver ten working computers to Paulino Salgado, our partner in Colombia. This gesture initiated a sister-school relationship between Francis Parker and Paulino Salgado.
Milia Fisher
2009: Paulino Salgado, Columbia
