Sponsor a Computer for a Child for R860

Dear Armabrand Friends, Please see email below from Annie, a development director at a partner of ours 'Community Individual Development Association'. We've been given this phenomenal opportunity to join them in changing lives by giving kids access to computers for only R860... please see below how you can join us in the wonderful initiative! Please contact Annie at annie@communityindividual.org to contribute and after reading below, see more background by going clicking here COMMUNITY INDIVIDUAL

Friends,

As the pioneers of the ‘Free Tertiary Education’ movement in South Africa, over the last 10 years we’ve educated 5,000 young people out of poverty, who are now working in jobs, earning over R200 million together in annual salaries. The economic impact of education is staggering!

Two key projects that will allow us to scale up to reach thousands of disadvantaged youth per year require a significant number of computers. A recent in-depth study demonstrated that computer-based maths training can increase outcomes by 56%.

Computer AID International in the UK are offering the purchase of 350 virtually-new computers for R300,000 (R860 per computer). Every computer comes with a flat plasma screen. DHL has offered free shipping from the UK. In South Africa a similar computer = R2,000 per computer (without the screen), and R3,000 with flat screen. The offer is only available for one week.

We need your help!
We are asking if you can personally fund one computer yourself and inspire 2 others to match your support. 1 (R860), 2 (R1,720)

We will put a list of everyone who has contributed up on our website unless you wish to remain anonymous. Although it’s fantastic that you will be recognized for your contribution, we’re sure you’ll agree that the greater reward is that TODAY you can change someone’s tomorrow.

YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN

Thank you very much!
Kindest regards,

Annie

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Annie Falk, Business Development
Community Individual Development Association
Direct Line: +27 722262847
annie@communityindividual.org
www.communityindividual.org

BANKING DETAILS:
Community and Individual Development Association
Bank Details: STANDARD BANK, KILLARNEY BRANCH
Account Name: Community and Individual Development Association
Branch code : 007205, Account number: 20 371 535 7, SWIFT Address: SBZAZAJJ00720535

For deposit directly into Computer Aids account: (Please let us know)
Computer Aid Bank Details:
Bank: Lloyds TSB, Highbury Corner, 31 Holloway Road, London N7 8JU, UK
Account: 00862945, Sort code: 30-94-21, BIC code: LOYD GB 21180, IBAN: GB10 LOYD 309421 00862945

WHY COMPUTERS ARE KEY!!


21st Century Learning Labs: Bridging unemployable youth into education & entrepreneurship
These State-of-the-art learning labs pioneer the concept of mass personalisation in learning: harnessing the human technology and information technology revolution to bridge students from poor high school education to college and then into the economy. These labs systematically and daily build students' English, Mathematics and problem-solving, and Reading and comprehension skills by using the finest software, e-learning, and personalised educational methods.

*To test the effectiveness of our 21st Century Learning Labs, we divided one class into to two groups. Group A had an excellent teacher with no computers. Group B had an average teacher, but every student had access to computer based English and Maths software. In group A, the lowest score from a student was 23% as compared to Group B’s lowest score of 80%.

Invincible Outsourcing
To create a fully ‘self-funding’ educational model, we are launching businesses within the organization where students “Learn and Earn” to pay their way through school (supporting the campus) and earn extra money to support their families. Invincible Outsourcing call centre is a key business that requires 250 - 450 computers. For every 1 student studying through the ‘Learn and Earn” programme, enough funding is generated to bring in an additional 4 students. With 1,000 students working in the call centre while studying, funding will be generated to bring in an additional 4,000 students.

Tech specs from Computer Aid International Stats on Tertiary Education in South Africa today
http://www.computeraid.org/products.asp


High specification ‘premium PCs’:
• 100% P4 PCs
• minimum 1 GB RAM
• minimum 2.4 GHz processor
• 40-200Gb hard disk
• USB, CD-ROM
• soundcard
• NIC
• 100% TFT (thin screen) monitors
• 100% network cards
20ft container of 350 PCs with 100% TFTs
350 x 79 = 27,650 pounds
• Community Individual Development Association’s new ‘Learn and Earn’ model will allow for the cost of R60,000 a student to get a full-degree which will conservatively earn them R6 million salary over a 40-year career, a 100 times (10,000% return on investment)
Our Track Record: http://www.communityindividual.org/trackRecord.html
The Community Individual Development Association (C.I.D.A.) is a non-profit project-facilitation organization focused on the provision of mass-scale, low-cost, high quality, effective and enlightened education for the historically disadvantaged, which directly brings youth from poverty to a position of self-sufficiency. With a 30-year track record for innovation, we are focused on cultivating the full potential of every student and developing ethical competent groups of future business and government leaders. The Community and Individual Development Association has worked directly with over 50,000 South Africans, and touched the lives of at least 500,000 South Africans, along with hundreds of individuals from around the country. Around 5,000 students have gone through the programs at our previous university CIDA City Campus, the ‘First Free University in South Africa’, and we are now in the process of scaling up our new initiative, the Maharishi Institute, from 250 students to 1,500 within the next two years. We’ve had amazing support from strong South African and international partners that view our new ‘Self-Funding’ model as a key to bring about sustainable transformation in South Africa, and other African countries. Supporters include: Educating Africa, Datatec, Chuma Foundation, Oppenheimer Family, Kellogg Foundation, Skoll Foundation amongst others.