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Email Computer for the "Iskatel" Club

Region: Central Asia, Tajikistan
Author: Club "Iskatel", Dushanbe, Tajikistan - Nikolai Mileksetov
Consortium Member: Sacred Earth Network
Status: Funded and Ongoing Budget: $1078 Collected: $1078 Needs: $0
Result: This group is requesting a complete E-mail station for communications, including publication and distribution of their own newsletter/journal, "Tourism, Ecology, Nature, and Us."
Donors: Stuart Carroll, Massachusetts, April 2001

This group is requesting a complete E-mail station, which includes a computer, modem and printer.

Club "Iskatel", in Dushanbe, Tajikstan, formed in 1997 as a youth group part of "Pitomsi Saltzbergskovo Seminara", and since 2000 have been acting as an independent youth group. They gather information on the state of the environment of Tajikistan, conduct environmental education trainings, and publish their own newsletter/journal, "Tourism, Ecology, Nature, and Us". They also organize backpacking trips for youth in the mountains. They are a very active group of young people.

They have been using the computer and e-mail at "Pitomsi Saltzbergskovo Seminara" when they can, but they have clearly out-grown this and now need their own to work on. They have a little office with a telephone line. They have "computer know-how".

About Sacred Earth Network's equipment program:
Sacred Earth Network provides middle-ground equipment (not top-of-the-line, but reliable equipment). Recipients sign a 2 year contract committing themselves to using the granted equipment to communicate for their environmentally oriented work.

After delivering the equipment, training recipients on computer and E-mail use, and making sure groups open e-mail accounts, SEN's Moscow technical and project staff provide considerable post hook-up consultation to ensure that participants become reliable e-mail users.

SEN's Moscow staff will provide training and follow-up consultation for any environmental group granted equipment by Virtual Foundation donors.

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