Hi Joachim,
With the help of a small Togolese team, I have worked at promoting the use of the Raspberry Pi in rural schools in Togo since 2014. We install small labs with 21+ workstations, often in unused classrooms. We started with the RPi 1, and we moved on to the RPi 2, RPi 3, and now the RP 4… We still run RPi 3s in most of our labs. We currently have 5 labs installed in villages where one would never expect such resources to be available for local schools. We are planning a 6th lab for 2022.
All labs are built on the same “model” : from power circuits and LAN to the furniture, even the color scheme and the posters ;-). All labs use a similar Ubuntu image, installed with all of the software that one could expect to find in a secondary school.
In all partner schools, the most difficult hurdle is to engage teachers in the project.
My dream is now to attract the attention of other Organisations, Institutions, NGO… who plan to offer ICT equipment to similar schools, and to convince them to consider our “model” as a much better alternative to “old retired equipment” or recent, sophisticated, equipments (such as laptops) which are often too fragile for such (tropical) environments.
Maybe you want to have a look at our website (www.initic.africa).
Of course we would be very happy to share our experience.
Kind regards,
dl

Hi Joachim,
That’s brilliant!
I work with partners around the globe that want to advance this educational work. I’ll drop you and email to start a conversation.

Hi Hari ji,
So glad to see your excitement to start activities in India. My name is Vasu and I manage Raspberry Pi Foundation activities here in India, and I would love to chat with you. How about you drop me a line at vasu@raspberrypi.org and we can take this forward?
Meanwhile you can check out some of our Code activities and CoderDojo activities here in India.
Code Club – https://youtu.be/26UzVJIDW8I
CoderDojo –
https://youtu.be/UsD3SblMZVQ

Chat soon!