The Mitsui & Co. Environment Fund
Introduction to Grant Projects
Class for Everyone (NPO)
Creation of ICT education system to areas without electricity with second hand products
Activity grant
- Project Description
The permeation of IT has precipitated educational inequality as disparities in the availability of information between developed nations and areas without electricity has widened. This project aims to develop an ICT educational infrastructure that is powered by a small-scale electric generation system whose energy is generated by solar power in a village in Tanzania where it is sunny for 300 days throughout the year. Second hand solar panels and computers collected in Japan will be used. Localized manuals for electric generation systems will be created to establish a framework, which will allow residents to independently create and manage these systems. Reduction of the educational gap, energy conservation, the use of renewable energy and the improvement of access to energy sources for developing countries will be addressed. [No. K17-0044]
- Fields
- Resource Circulation
- Grant year
- FY2017 Activity Grants
- Grant term
- Two years (From October 2017 to September 2019)
- Grant amount
- 5.2 million yen
- Activity region
- Collaboration with 28 countries mainly from Asia and Africa
Overview of the Organization
- Project organization
- Class for Everyone (NPO)
- Representative
- Administrative Director: Takahama Hiroshi
- Establishment
- 2011
- Establishment Purpose
- The purpose of this project is to promote 'equal opportunities', 'discovering potential in people' and 'developing a sustainable society and people' by conducting programs that reduce disparities in the availability of information to impoverished people in developing countries.
- Recent Activities
- Activities aiming to create equal opportunities are being undertaken with the goal of conceiving a world in which all children - regardless of where they are born - can demonstrate their value. In collaboration with various organizations and corporations, a framework is being devised that will allow people including in areas without electricity in Asia and Africa to use second hand devices from Japan for educational purposes.
- Staff
- Number of Full-time employees: 4 (The Japanese staff: 1, The Tanzanian staff: 3) / Regular members: 10, Monthly members: 15
- WEB site
- http://class4every1.jp
- Voice of Representative
- We aim to spread a DIY spirit for electricity and new sources of electricity for areas without electricity in Africa through this project. Also, through the process of generating electricity, we hope to discover and address issues found in both developed and developing countries.