I am interested in learning about the schools in Uganda and how the education process works. I am focusing on Kampala and I am looking to work with someone that knows the school system. Any information would be helpful. Thank you

THANX FOR THE INTERESTING WELCOME!!!

forgive me not having introduced myself correctly yet, I will definitely become an active omidyar member. I love this initiative, love the way the site works and love everything i read. you guys are amazing! i spended quite some hours yet here online, just reading...jes so much to read. And still i got the feeling there is so much more...I just do not want to bore you with things that have been said already.. thanx for the positive feedback already! There is more about me on my website www.frerieke.nl (unfortunately the mainpage (blog) is in dutch, but all the others are in english...)Please do not hesitate to send a message if you want to know more. I will soon participate writing, contributing to this very worthwile initiative! chat soon! Fre

I guess you could say that I am a frustrated earth-shaker. I keep coming up with all sorts of interesting ideas and plans to change the world and I lose my momentum for lack of encourage and support. http://www.backyardbrevard.com http://www.takecareofyourshare.c om http://www.naturesdetails.net http://www.manatureschild.com

alexandria may be a little more specific of what you realy want to know about the shools in uganda.i live here in kampala and may be i can help alot more.are you interested in all levels or a specific level?

Hi, I came to this site after meeting people from Humanity United. I am here for two reasons.

One - To learn more about how the network works and what people are doing to inform my work at the Fund for Peace.

Two - To see if the work of another organization, of which I sit on the board, Liberty's Promise, would be of interest to some of the people here.

I still need to check around and see where to post what before I want to take up people's time discussing my specific interests. So more from me later as I learn how this network works.

Thanks! Krista

hi everyone, welcome! feel free to send me a message if you have questions about how this space works - its pretty vast, and i'd say the search tool (top right) is your best best to find content and people around issues you are interested in. cheers!

I'm from Toronto, Canada and visiting Venezuela for 6 months working with the communal councils here that are demonstrating real participatory democracy. http://get.cooptools.ca/why_vene zuela

My main aim is to learn and share methods for practicing deliberative governance.

I learned about Omidyar via the good folks at Ashoka.org

go team World

-jd

Hi,

I am interested in sponsoring the school fees for a family in Kampala and haven't found an easy of way of doing that. I was hoping to work with an organization in Kampala that can help me through the process.

I do some work through Kiva for microfinancing but haven't found any easy process for sponsoring educational needs.

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you, Alexandria B.

kabagweri jane said:

alexandria may be a little more specific of what you realy want to know about the shools in uganda.i live here in kampala and may be i can help alot more.are you interested in all levels or a specific level?

Greetings from Tennessee, USA I want to thank Haney for the note, suggestion, and feedback. I am here because my daughter, Lauren, is a Life in Africa Team member in Gulu, Uganda right now. I want to support her and the things she's involved in. I will look further into how I can be involved, but I am very busy for the next few weeks.

To introduce myself ? Me présenter ? Pas évident. D'abord parce que je ne m'exprime qu'en français. Et puis parce que je ne suis pas vraiment présentable : j'ai débarqué ici en suivant un lien de Stéphane Gigandet, je suis pris un peu de court... Mais je suis là.

PS : en guise de non-présentation, je peux quand même signaler que c'est moi qui ai adapté les bannières de nosvies et net² sur Les Influenceurs (dont je suis le co-admin)

Hi Alexandria,

Thank you for your interest in Uganda which happens to be my home soil,

The best and sure way of sponsoring school fees is to pay direct to the school bank account, I suppose that the person or family you are sponsoring has identified the school already. You can wire the fees to the school account and confirm by calling both the school and family thereafter.

I reside in the US and pay for one student in Uganda using this method and I find it a better and reliable option rather than using 3rd parties.

Cheers

Comrade

Alexandria B. said:

Hi,

I am interested in sponsoring the school fees for a family in Kampala and haven't found an easy of way of doing that. I was hoping to work with an organization in Kampala that can help me through the process.

I do some work through Kiva for microfinancing but haven't found any easy process for sponsoring educational needs.

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you, Alexandria B.

kabagweri jane said:

alexandria may be a little more specific of what you realy want to know about the shools in uganda.i live here in kampala and may be i can help alot more.are you interested in all levels or a specific level?

Hi all in this June/July Introduction,

I have been a member for a while but I dont remember introducing myself.

I have a keen interest in Nature (e.g birding), adventure travel, campaigns against Illegal wars, and learning languages.

Of recent I have developed interest in street musicians, Im happy to report that many cities I have been too in the past decade especially Europe encourage, or tolerate, street musicians.

I would be happy to get in touch and compare notes with colleagues with a bias in the above.

Hi Comrade,

I saw your post and sent a couple of questions via email. I appreciate your response.

Thank you, Alexandria

Comrade Karekoona said:

Hi Alexandria,

Thank you for your interest in Uganda which happens to be my home soil,

The best and sure way of sponsoring school fees is to pay direct to the school bank account, I suppose that the person or family you are sponsoring has identified the school already. You can wire the fees to the school account and confirm by calling both the school and family thereafter.

I reside in the US and pay for one student in Uganda using this method and I find it a better and reliable option rather than using 3rd parties.

Cheers

Comrade

Hi everyone,came across this site by accident and started reading about it,I liked what it stood for as it appears on Linda's page,I'd like to know that I've done my bit to make this world a better place for the less fortunate.I'm still learnong how to use this website then I'll be able to join some discussion groups.Anyone who has any questions to ask about me is welcome anytime,thanks!

In a recent moment of inspiration, a passion was ignited within me for engaging, participating, interacting and creating (EPIC) experiences that make a better world. Through my blog at epicflow.wordpress.com, I am exploring ways and avenues for multiplying value in society and connecting with leaders who are living EPIC lives. My passion is to make a difference in teh lives of youth. I volunteer to go to schools in my city every week to speak about character. There's a lot more but I want to KISS - Keep It Simple and Short!

Hi everyone,

My name is Cesar Nerys and have just joined Omidyar. I am interested in fostering free market ideals through practical and replicable approaches. As such, I have personal projects and am also a consultant to foreign direct investors and NGOs and foreign governments.

Examples of the work done by Openworld, Inc. and Openworld Institute are available on the web at www.openworld.com and openworldinstitute.org

I would like to connect with action oriented free market minded individuals, who have an interest in and knowledge of opensource software and eGovernment applications, that can be applied in emerging economies, to improve transparency and eliminate barriers for internal entrepreneurs, especially the young and talented of any social class. I hope to connect with others who are like minded.

Hi,

My name is Taa and I am with Global Alliance for Technology & Education (GATE) in Africa, an organization that is bringing together a community of interest and creating partnerships to help improve the education and technology challenges facing many high schools in Africa.

We are piloting the GATE in Liberia providing 200 students that show exceptional performance and outstanding promise from 4 distinguished high schools with:

• Academic Scholarships
• Technology-infused curriculum
• After school program
• Monthly leadership workshops

Ultimately we plan to have the GATE in various parts of Africa, partnering with local schools and organizations. If you are interested in the GATE, please visit www.gatetoafrica.org or contact me directly.

-Taa

Dear Taa,

I have visited your gatetoafrica.org & Im honored to comment that your 3 core objectives are SMART.

Having spent of my time in subsaharan Africa and travelled extensively in different parts of Africa, I would be happy to compare notes and contrubute to your noble cause in anyway possible.

Im interested in GATE and would be happy to learn more about your work and perhaps my friend Alexandria in this string.

Comrade

I actually joined in April and am belatedly introducing myself. I live in California and am part of the development team at omidyar.net, helping to define and implement new features to the website. I know omidyar.net can be a confusing place, there is a lot of content on the site, and it can be hard to figure out where to start.

I am really interested in hearing from people who recently joined.

• Were you able to find groups, people, or content that interests you on the website?
• What tools on the website did you use to find interesting stuff on the site - search, tags, browsing through Front Page News, etc.?
• What things do you find hard or easy to use on the website?

Feel free to reply directly to this thread. You can also send me a message using our internal messaging system. (to do that, click on my name at the top of this comment, you will see my profile page and a link to "send a message" on the brown bar on top of the profile.)

Alexandria B. said:

I am interested in learning about the schools in Uganda and how the education process works. I am focusing on Kampala and I am looking to work with someone that knows the school system. Any information would be helpful. Thank you

Hi and welcome. I am just getting around to reading this. I lived in Kampala and do know something about the schools and might be able to answer some of your questions. Why don't you post a list of questions you have. You can even do it on your personal news page and then even the Ugandans can chime in.

Hi Evvy,

I apologize for missing your post. I'm still learning my way around this website and found the feature watch list.

I haven't quite discovered when a thread is finished and a new one posted in it's place.

I have made some contacts in Uganda with the school system and am currently working on providing detailed information. It's been time consuming but I believe I'm headed in the right direction.

Currently I find that I have several options in getting this scholarship set up.

The easiest solution is going through a 501C organization that I can work with on a personal level.

I appreciate you response and when I do have other questions I will post them to the forum.

Hi - I'm starting a social enterprise and am in the process of raising funding for the project. I have covered most aspects of the business plan but am hoping to find, through this network, some insights into and suggestions for different metrics that might apply for a social enterprise. While I will be showing potential investors traditional business plan metrics (IRR, NPV, etc.), are there any proven and acceptable ways to show these metrics for other social enterprises? Does anyone have any suggestions or guidance on this topic? I have already received some great feedback from Mark Grimes but any further insight, especially into the financial modelling of such an enterprise, would be much appreciated.

Steve Chiu said:

Hi - I'm starting a social enterprise and am in the process of raising funding for the project. I have covered most aspects of the business plan but am hoping to find, through this network, some insights into and suggestions for different metrics that might apply for a social enterprise. While I will be showing potential investors traditional business plan metrics (IRR, NPV, etc.), are there any proven and acceptable ways to show these metrics for other social enterprises? Does anyone have any suggestions or guidance on this topic? I have already received some great feedback from Mark Grimes but any further insight, especially into the financial modelling of such an enterprise, would be much appreciated.

You can try our tagging system to find people and groups that share your interests. For instance, to find people, click on the "People" tab, then click on the "Tagged" tab, and you see a list of tags that have been applied to our members. ("social-entrepeneur" tag may be a good place to start.)

https://www.omidyar.net/user/tag ged/

You can also browse through the tag cloud on the home page. Click on the tag "social-enterprise" and you will get a list of content. There is a lot there...hope you find something of use to you.

Hi,

I am not new to Omidyar having joined some time ago, but as of late, haven't made it in much. I spend most of my time (networking time) writing bulletins and sending emails to network on Myspace with some success. Just wanted to share with some that this is a good tool and it has helped our organization to gain some donations and readership of our newsletters and brought us some limited press.

I just had a few moments and popped in here today to say hello. I am a fund raising volunteer for a non-profit service organization that aids the what has been called in the press "a third world nation in the U.S." - the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Unfortunately, it seems that aiding indigent Native Americans, living in abject poverty on a desolate reservation in South Dakota, is not a popular cause nor of interest to most Americans. It can be very frustrating to see the reverse of what I see here on this site and in these subjects when it comes to interest in helping our own. Our organization, ONE Spirit (www.nativeprogress.org) actually gets more interest from Europeans curious about Native American culture than we get from American's wanting to aid other (poor) Americans.

I guess it's just me and I do not mean to knock anybodies wonderful work here, but I guess I get frustrated that so much of our good, hard effort goes abroad (yes, it is very needed but there is great NEED in this country too), and too few care about making things better in our own backyards. I think it's a socially sensitive issue in America that the majority of American's do not want to know that abject poverty and third world conditions are alive and real in America. There are some 40,000 people living under these conditions on Pine Ridge Reservation and after years of doing this work, I'm astounded that an estimated 90% of American's have absolutely no clue that these conditions exist. Disturbing still is the fact that 8 out of 10 people I talk to--don't want to hear about it! Why are we so apathetic to the suffering of our neighbors here, but not those in other lands?? Maybe it's just me, but I don't get it sometimes.

Does anyone have more insight into the apathetic nature of the general population in America towards an American's living in poverty? Any studies anyone is aware that have been done? Would make an interesting story.

Thanks much for listening! Kathleen K.

I am currently a freelance photographer based in San Francisco,and I am looking for a career change. I am interested in finance, especially in the socially responsible investing area. Any insight into how to begin this career shift would be welcomed. I am willing to begin at the beginning.