Dear colleagues,

I am working on establishing a long-term partnership with an NGO named ITOCA, dedicated to education training in Africa[1].  One aspect of our proposed cooperation would be to introduce Wikipedia training to the curriculum in teacher trainings ITOCA delivers.  I have sent them some training materials to review and think about, based on the training materials[2][3] that Limoke and I had prepared for the Setswana Wikipedia Challenge[4].

The operate throughout sub-Saharan Africa, but there is an opportunity to be involved close to home: they are to deliver training at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, between Nov 29th and Dec 1st.  They would like to try incorporating Wikipedia training at this opportunity, and both they and I think it would be best if we can involve a Wikipedian in this first time we try to incorporate Wikipedia into their training curriculum.

Would one of the WMKE members who have some experience in editing *and* in training be interested in going?  We cover the airfare and accommodation, and will pay a small "per diem" allowance for meals and local transport.

Thanks in advance,

   Asaf

[1] http://www.itoca.org/
[2] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Challenge
[3] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Challenge/Setswana
[4] http://www.google.com/events/setswana-wiki/index.html
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    Asaf Bartov
    Wikimedia Foundation