Mundubila

Mundu bila means in forro creole
that the World is changing for the better.
Let's change the world of the Elementary
School of Boa Entrada!

What?

This is a pilot project whose 1st Goal is to donate equipment to the Elementary School of Boa Entrada, in Lobata district in São Tomé e Príncipe:

15 Raspberry Pi (low-cost computers)

+ peripherals

1 UPS battery

1 projector

1 webcam

1 speakers set

Internet connection

With this material, we will be able to achieve our 2nd Goal: setting up a virtual learning environment that will allow teachers from Portugal to offer support to teachers and pupils from the Elementary School of Boa Entrada, by providing them with:

The latest teaching and learning material

Training

Why?

In our first visit to the Elementary School of Boa Entrada, we found only empty bookshelves. Textbooks as well as teaching materials were almost inexistent. We took some old textbooks with us that we have gathered with our friends' help and we set up a small printer and an old laptop. However, we felt that the aid provided was still insufficient because:

Those were assorted old-fashioned textbooks, which makes it almost impossible to follow a structured school curriculum

It is difficult to find places in São Tomé e Príncipe that sell ink cartridges. Also, they are very expensive

With low-cost but high-performance computers, video projection and Internet connection, we can:

Share the latest teaching material that can be used within a well-defined curriculum

Offer more pedagogical training for teachers (only 27% of these teachers have formal pedagogical training, the other 73% are currently in training)

Reduce the printing material and giving preference to video projection of content

Make Internet and technology part of pupils and teachers' school life

Create distance learning and offering extracurricular classes (e.g. coding classes)

Why Raspberry Pi 4?

How can you help?

Thanks to you, our crowdfunding campaign was successfully funded and Mundubila has achieved more than half of the amount needed to be implemented. You can still donate and help our project through:

IBAN: PT50 0033 0000 45527337128 05

Account name: MUNDUBILA ASSOCIACAO

BIC/SWIFT: BCOMPTPL