[Imc-finance] Proposal 2004-G: comp shipping for bolivia (imc-portland) 4400USD

Fri Jun 18 02:00:22 PDT 2004

Proposal 2004-G: computershipping for bolivia (by imc-portland) 4400USD
Posted: June 17, 2004
Discussion Period: June 17-July 1, 2004
Decision Deadline: July 1, 2004
Amount Requested: 4400 USD (3800 + 600)

summary: shipping of 30 computers by imc-Portland to communities/indymedia collectives in Bolivia (3800USD) and getting a tech volunteer over there (airfare 600 USD)


bht wrote:

>bht here from portland imc, passing this along to global finance.  I am
>not on the list but follow the list.  This proposal is backed by portland
>imc for bolivia, please read and respond accordingly.
>--
>
>Hola,  mi nombre es BartolinaSisa de Bolivia radicando en Portland, OR
>indigena
>parte del colectivo (Raiz de
>Maiz) involucrado con el proyecto Indy Media Portland de mandar
>computadoras a Villa
>Ingenio y Warisata.
>
>Hello, my name is BartolinaSisa from Bolvia, an indigenous person living
>in Portland
>Oregon, I work with a collective called Raiz de Maiz (Root of Corn/ Roots
>from
>Corn). I have been helping Indymedia-Porltand with their project to get
>computers to
>Villa Ingenio and Warisata.
>
>Es parte personal de preguntar a ustedes si podriamos tener la posibilidad de
>soporte financiero para mandar las computadoras a manos de estas comunidades.
>
>On my part, I would like to personnally ask you all if we can have the
>possibility
>of financial support for getting the computers into the hands of these
>communities.
>
>Se agradese su trabajo y esperamos su respuesta.
>
>I an grateful for your work and we await your response.
>
>Att: Raiz de Maiz (Barto)
>
>Translation by Kim Alphandary.
>
>PROPOSAL:
>
>PORTLAND-INDYMEDIA SEEKING FUNDS TO SHIP COMPUTERS BOLIVIA
>JUNE 17, 2004
>
>
>ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING COMPUTERS ________________________________________
>A Rural Teachers Training College and a Catholic Church will be receiving
>computers from the United States; both organizations are located in
>Bolivia.
>
>Site 1: Escuela Normal de Warisata
>Plaza Principal de Warisata, Provincia Omasuyos
>Departamento de La Paz, Bolivia
>STUDENTS: 1,200
>
>The Escuela Normal de Warisata is a teacher's training college for rural
>teachers, training the Aymara Indians to become teachers of their own
>people.  The school teaches bilingual education reflecting real life, the
>combination of intellectual and manual work, and democratic
>self-government.  The students come from all over Bolivia.
>
>The Bolivian village of Warisata is located about an hour from La Paz,
>near Lake Titicaca.  For the Aymara people, Warisata symbolizes their
>struggle to obtain the right to have a school and an education, and has
>come to be referred to as the "Athens of the Aymara".  Since the late
>1800's several attempts to organize and construct their own school were
>suppressed, as buildings were burnt to the ground and leaders and
>community members were persecuted.
>
>Eventually the "Escuela Normal de Warista" was founded permanently in 1931
>and became such a model in the field of Indian education that by 1945
>representatives from Peru, Bolivia and the United States met in Warisata
>to lay the groundwork for the creation of the first campesino school in
>Peru, and establish more schools in Bolivia.
>
>As for the Aymara people, they were once members of the Tiahuanaco Empire,
>disappearing a thousand years ago.  Many of them still live as they have
>for centuries as herders and farmers.  They have a very strong and unique
>culture.  The Aymara make up one third of the population of Bolivia and
>are the predominate group in Southern Peru and Northern Chile, their total
>population is estimated to be some three and a half million people.
>
>Almost everything is needed: computers, money for the shipment,
>tech-support.  They plan to construct a new building to create a computer
>room; the possibility for good Internet connection exists, and they have a
>disposition to pay some expenses (electricity, phone lines).
>
>Site 2: Samaritan Social Center
>PARROQUIA "CRISTO REDENTOR" [PARISH "CHRIST THE SAVIOR"]
>Calle Luis Espinal sin número, junto a la Plaza Elizardo Pérez.
>Villa Ingenio, El Alto, Bolivia
>STUDENTS: 300
>
>[Padre Wilson Gonzalo Soria Paz submitted a proposal in Spanish; copies of
>the full translation are available upon request.  As it is extremely
>lengthy, I have chosen to extract small portions for his proposal and have
>occasionally summarized.]
>
>The Parish of 'Christ the Savior' is in the North Zone of the Diocese and
>in city of El Alto, some 6 km across. The towns that make up the Parish
>are:  Port Mejillones, Eastern Villa, Villa Ingenio, Villa Nueva Asuncion
>and Villa San Juan.  In this parochial jurisdiction there are five Fiscal
>Educational Establishments and one private.  A Health Center PRO-SALUD
>[For-Health].
>
>There is one paved street and another paved with cobblestones; the
>majority of the streets are dirt roads. The climate in our parish is much
>colder than in other sectors of the city El Alto.  For this reason we say
>that this suburb [Villa Ingenio] is one of the poorest and coldest of El
>Alto.
>
>The population is approximately 37,500 inhabitants.  Some 90% are of the
>inhabitants are Aymara.  In general they are simple and poor people.  A
>high percentage of the adult population is people without a high school
>education; and illiteracy is much higher among the female population.
>
>[Bolivia suffered a tragic social uprising in October 2003.  Twenty-three
>people from the community of Villa Ingenio were killed and some 70 people
>were wounded.  The role that Padre Soria took during these conflicts was
>heroic, using every means at his disposal to support the people, a major
>influence in organizing: press conferences, writing official announcements
>from the clergy, hunger strikes, giving refuge to anyone that needed it,
>alive, wounded, in mourning or dead.  ]
>
>Before the reality of need and tragedy happened in October 2003 to Villa
>Ingenio, we had already decided to respond to some of the many factors
>that lead these people to protest, and resulted in the wounded, dead and
>destruction of so many families:
>DIGNITY - PARTICIPATION - HUMAN PROMOTION.
>
>For that reason our Parish Christ Redentor, has opened itself in a decided
>form to SOCIAL SERVICE for the year of 2004 we plan to create a social
>infrastructure.  In this Social Center  "El Buen Samaritano" [The Good
>Samarian] with ten educational rooms, also baths, a dining room and
>kitchen, we want to give the following social service: [briefly I will
>state that they have begun their schooling program, as the local schools
>are very inadequate, they have begun classes teaching all persons from
>their community reading and writing, and a variety of skills such as
>building, sewing etc.  They wish to teach typing and computing, a dream
>that awaits the arrival of these computers.]
>
>COMPUTERS FOR INDYMEDIA BOLIVIA
>________________________________________
>Indymedia-Bolivia will have complete access to the computers in Villa
>Ingenio, that is to say, Bolivia-Indymedia will be located at Villa
>Ingenio.  Once Warisata receives computers they will be establishing an
>Indymedia-Warisata, information that will become available straight from
>the center of the Aymara nation.
>
>
>COMPUTERS
>________________________________________
>Freegeek www.freegeek.org/, a local computer recycling organization has
>agreed to donate 30 computers and 15 printers.   A current employee at
>Freegeek, Vague-rant vagrant at freegeek.org has volunteered to go to Bolivia
>and spend some three months training in computer construction, repair,
>networking, and software operation.  If for some reason Vague-rant is
>unable to go, Steev Hise has volunteered to a back-up and if necessary, go
>in his place.   This is beyond extremely important for the sustainability
>of this project, especially in Warisata where the folk will be making a
>few major leaps in technology.  This volunteer will teach the Aymara how
>to build and repair computers and, how to network and operate
>free-software.  The Project will not be considered complete without the
>accompaniment of a Tech-Teacher-Type.
>
>Atamira Electronic Translation ( http://www.atamiri.cc/en/index.html )
>Iván Guzmán de Rojas, has stated that his organization will donate
>software for this project once computers are installed.  They have
>developed translation software for the Aymara language.
>
>FINANCING ________________________________________
>I am currently seeking assistance with freight costs for this project,
>$3,800 to ship 30 computers.  And airfare, $600.00 for the tech-person
>willing to teach in Bolivia for a six month period of time, organizations
>involved have pledged to house and feed this volunteer.
>
>CONTACTS  ________________________________________
>Organizers:  Kim Alphandary, kalphandary at earthlink.net, 503-554-5404
>                    Steev Hise, steev at detritus.net  503-236-4288
>
>
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