By David Sowerwine | Founder
During our time in Nepal a Peace Corps volunteer asked us if we would take responsibility for Sabu, a bright young girl from western Nepal who was destined by caste to a blighted life. At her mother's request and with help from our friends we supported her in Kathmandu through school and a business degree.
Now years later, we needed help with Looma's content--getting the chapter titles of the Nepalese textbooks re-typed in modern Devanagari unicode script. She stepped in, and that part of Looma's content structure was quickly completed.
This is one of many generous actions from our volunteers and donors. Others designed the first versions of Looma, tested and assembled the electronics, drafted the initial software, created a simple user interface, designed the first and several ever-better versions of the wand (Looma's aerial mouse), searched the internet for appropriate photos, videos and other material to embed in Nepal's Grade 1-8 curriculum, contributed to Looma's glossary--translations of all the English vocabulary, used the Looma I prototype in their classrooms and provided valuable feedback...
By the end of February the hardware and software of several new Looma II systems will be ready to resume field trials. Nepal's current political and economic storm does not make it easy to work there, but we will find a way. We also hope to begin field work in Kenya, Central America and elsewher--sites to be determined.
We will enlist a temporary volunteer coordinator for each field trial. Global Giving donations help to cover the travel and living expenses of these volunteers.
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