We-e-e-e-e're Back!
It's the eve of a Worlds Touch trip to India and Nepal. I'll be working on this blog over the course of the next few days, to see if I can't bring it back into the fold.
This is the official blog of Worlds Touch, the international organization that is dedicated to bridging the digital divide across the globe, but specifically in the Himalayan mountains. Why that particular place? Because the folks there speak Nepali, a language I've been working on for the past three or four years, and because It's a part of the world I want to keep returning to.
Of course, social work is social work, no matter where you do it, and Worlds Touch is technology social work. Or maybe I should say social work in technology?
Okay, so where are we?
We have one project that is confirmed for this trip, a Health Camp with the Rotarians in Darjeeling, India. That is strictly NON-technological, except insofar as the video we're planning to shoot to document what the health camp is and does in the mountains of India. We are bringing our Flip Videos, two of the three bought in the promotion that PureDigital , the company who makes them offered nonprofits this year. It was a sweet deal: Buy one, get one free.
We furnished a very simple grant application and they approved both Worlds Touch and my last organization, West End Ministries. So now WEM has four and we have two. It turns out High Point University, where my husband Jean-Francois Llorens works has four more. So this looks like a coming technology-- a low-tech camcorder, a simple hand-held video camera, a dead-easy-to-use gadget that allows you to download the videos directly to your computer.
I'll be posting some of the videos we've taken lately here and on the recently updated web site of West End Ministries, one of the WT projects we accomplished during my year as a VISTA volunteer.
In the meantime, I'm frantically searching for phone numbers and addresses of my contacts in Nepal. I haven't been to that beautiful country for three years. I'm going to purge the photo albums on this blog to the Nepal photos, and may actually cull that group further.
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