eCorps Dominican Republic April 2011
Dominican Republic April 8th - April 22nd 2011
Group Size: 10 (only three slots left)
Host City: Santo Domingo
Cost: $500 reservation + airfare (tax deductible)*
Up to $1,100 travel grants are available for 6 tech professionals.
Starting in Santo Domingo, our team will travel to different schools selected by Infopoverty to work for 8 days. WCE is now recruiting tech volunteers over age 21 to visit the Dominican Republic for two weeks leaving their home cities on Friday evening April 8th and then departing Santo Domingo on the afternoon of Friday April 22, 2011.
Team information
Volunteer teams will assist with training the trainers in upgrading, networking, and trouble-shooting in schools that have received computers from WCE. They will also show the schools how to use the Internet to improve learning.
The team will work with several WCE Partner organizations in different parts of the country. Each group will have recently received computers from WCE. This was the first shipment by WCE to the Dominican Republic. Another shipment is expected to be sent in a few months.
It will be helful if most of the volunteers are somewhat conversant in Spanish.
The brief orientation in Santo Domingo will include tourism and some conversations on issues about the Dominican Republic. After the couple of days of rest and orientation in Santo Domingo, the volunteers will travelto different villages to work for 8 days. If feasible, this team will help to develop a learning center for the University of the People.
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Find out what it's like to be on an eCorps Team
Many prior eCorps volunteers have found their 2-week trip to be life-changing, a once in a life time experience. Here are some first-hand accounts to give you an idea of what eCorps is all about: Read about eCorps Nigeria the evaluation and comments of our eCorps Tanzania 2009 team or the evaluation and comments of our eCorps Kenya 2009 team. Our prior eCorps volunteers would love to share stories of their adventure with you!
Reserve your place on eCorps DR!
To reserve this trip, team members need to fill our our eCorps application, make a tax deductible donation to WCE of $500 (administrative fee) and the cost of your flights. WCE will provide you with a tax receipt for the WCE cost, your flight, and the costs of innoculations, visa, guide, travel inside the Dominican Republic along with your food and lodging costs that will need to be paid in the Dominican Republic. We can provide you with a fund raising letter and links to help you find Sponsors to help you with the costs of your trip. WCE can help you with letters, and tax-deductible receipts for your financial Sponsors.
If you are interested in going, please contact Dominican_Republic@WorldComputerExchange.org
Attached in Word is copy of our eCorps Application
About the Dominican Republic: About 22% of the people in the Dominican Republic use the Internet and the average annual income is about $8,300 per person.
