Project Philippi, South Africa:

yellobric spent a week in Cape Town liaising with the NGO SAEP and at schools within which they operate in the township of Philippi. eReaders are to be used in three separate educational schemes:

- Bridging year whereby SAEP teach students who just missed out on University.
- Hope Scholars, SAEP teach additional lessons to bright students from year 9 all the way through to year 12.
- ADT Teach. A van sponsored by ADT security spends time at each school teaching ICT with 20 laptop computers.

yellobric was also able to work with the SAEP ICT team to set up the library on their server so that each terminal in there office can have access through Calibre to the central eLibrary.

Project WULUGU, Ghana:

John Salifu of Walewale Vocational/Technical Institute will be running yellobric’s 6th eReader scheme.

The Wulugu Project works to reduce poverty through education in a deprived area of Northern Ghana. By providing educational opportunities in more than 100 villages, over 200,000 children have been helped out of the cycle of poverty.

The community contacted WULUGU in 2005 as they were concerned by the numbers of girls who had little hope due to a stark lack of education in the area. Alongside the Technical Institute WULUGU are building a hostel for girls. This will enable girls from the more remote areas to be safely educated.

Ninety minutes of the best six short films for your delectation. Join us on Thursday the 26th of January 2012 to celebrate yellobric’s charity status.

Future Shorts (the guys behind Secret Cinema) will be helping us launch the charity yellobric with a popup short film festival. yellobric will be hosting the screening which is part of a world wide festival spanning 30 countries. Our screening with be in The Vibe Bar, one of East London’s premier venues on Brick Lane. We hope you’ll hang around after to raise a glass and celebrate yellobric’s charity status.

The films include one Oscar winner and one BAFTA winner, you can watch some of the trailers on our facebook site (www.facebook.com/yellobric). For a full list of films click here…

yellobric’s pilot scheme was officially launched on Wednesday the 14th of September 2011 at Mnarani Primary school. The school is located in the village of Mnarani, near Mombasa on the Kenyan coast. Importantly Mnarani is in a 3G covered area of Kenya – enabling the pilot scheme to test the capabilities of the 3G enabled eReaders for child user to child sponsor interaction via the mobile phone network. Gavin Paterson and Peter McCallum spent 6 days at the school teaching 250 pupils (out of 1,600 at the school) and 28 staff how to use the eReaders, they were also able to fund and setup a Wi-Fi network so that children at the school were able to access the internet through the eReaders.

yellobric received a letter of support from the Ministry of Education, who hope to assist the role-out of the scheme across other schools in Kenya. 20 eReaders were deployed at the official ceremony which was attended by Her Ladyship the Major of Kilifi district. Special thanks must go to the schools headmaster Hassan Abdulatif, ICT Mistress Judy Mwenda and Ian Graham of Mnarani Aid, for their assistance in setting up the scheme.
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