Mahabir Pun has started a campaign - "Donate One Dollar a Month to help Build Broadband Information Highway Across Nepal".
Here is the "Request Letter for One Dollar a Month Campaign". Please read it. Also let Mahabir know if you have any questions regarding the request letter. Please sign up for the campaign.
One-Dollar-A-Month = Information Highway in Rural Nepal
The wireless network project started as an experiment in 2002, essentially using basic home networking equipment to see if Internet connection can be brought to Nangi from Pokhara (the nearest city with an Internet Service Provider). After repeated trial and error, the trick worked, and today in 2008, there are 22 villages villages in three districts of Nepal that are connected via the wireless network.
It takes 8 days to walk through these villages, and now information and news gets shared in seconds. A total population of 22,000, and 7 High Schools with about 1,700 students now have access to news, goods for sale in the surrounding villages, telephone calls using VoIP, basic health care using telemedicine, and better access to education via tele-teaching.
However, there are hundreds of other villages out there that need to be connected. And as need for services grow within the connected villages, it requires better infrastructure, scalable equipment, and more support and maintenance. We believe this will be the foundation for an information highway that will connect all of rural Nepal, and with your help, we can realize this goal sooner than ever.
The One-Dollar-a-Month campaign asks you to donate one dollar each month to build this Information Highway. Show the unity of Nepalis and well-wishers of Nepal by donating $1/month to help build Information Highway using wireless technology in the mountains of Nepal.
Encourage your children to initiate the campaign among their peers in schools so that the children can learn from their early age to be involved in projects like these for good causes.
Further Reading:
http://www.himanchal.org/images/MahabirLetter_OneDollaraMonth.pdf
http://www.himanchal.org/contribute-one-dollar-a-month.html
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