We are a team of four college students (and ONE members) in the US who are spending our summer in Mboro, Senegal working with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and the Peace Corps to bring 200 laptops to students at Ecole Notre Dame Elementary School. Ecole Notre Dame is unique in that it receives free power and clean water from the local phosphorous factory. Free power has greatly assisted in the financial sustainability of deploying OLPC’s XO laptops to all second, third, fourth and fifth gr
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“Migrant Remittances: A Development Challenge”, Published by the African Development Bank Group, 2009. Available at: http://collab2.cgap.org//gm/document-1.9.34957/Migrant%20Remittances,%20a%20Development%20Challenge.pdf This 85 page report presents the results of the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s 2007 extensive study on migrant remittances. The study involved a survey of emigrants from Morocco, Senegal, Mali, and the Comoros as well as beneficiaries in the countries. The African countri
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