Just a quick update from Graeme and Mark of Green Team 2CV, whose trip from London to Mongolia in an environmentally-friendly 2CV we followed on this blog in the summer. The boys left the solar panel from their car, along with the laptop which they used to stay in touch during their journey, over in Mongolia, for use on local projects run by Mercy Corps. Anna from Mercy Corps has sent the following update to show how the equipment is being used:
I have good news – I have received an update about your solar panel and laptop and have attached some photos for you to see.
They have both made it to a school in a province called Dundgobi where Mercy Corps work. The school itself has recently had some repairs carried out to it, funded by Mercy Corps, but the facilities are very basic. The school also has the poorest student body in the area because a lot of children come from very poor herders' families and are housed in a rather miserable dormitory in the school. So the new equipment that you kindly donated is reaching the poorest children in Dundgobi and really making a difference to their lives.
The solar panel has now been placed on the roof of the pupil’s dormitory to provide electricity when the normal power supply fails. The School director said,
"The solar power source has been installed in the student dormitory. It’s kept ready and is used when local power is disconnected. Electricity is particularly bad in the winter, but since the Gobi Desert region has so much sunshine, the solar panel allows the students in the dorm to study even during the frequent, and long power outages."
The laptop is also being used by teachers and pupils at the school to help them with their studies. They are keen to communicate with the school here in the UK that wrote them letters.
I hope the pictures attached make it all come to life a bit more. There are shots of the solar panel on the dormitory roof and children working under a electric light – powered by the solar panel, so that they can continue their school work. There are also some shots of children working on the laptop.
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