Posts Tagged ‘Development’
WANTED – spare classroom science equipment for schools in Africa
We are setting up a project that aims to support the IOP’s Physics For A Better World initiative by aiming to collect spare or unwanted science equipment from UK schools and ship it to IOP resource centres in various African countries. Through the initiative we are helping to set up and implement work schemes for classrooms, and our local [...]
In the community:Physics in Rwanda
Nature and the Institute of Physics (IOP) are working together to provide equipment for teaching physics in Rwanda. Funded by the IOP, volunteer physics teacher David Richardson started a project in 2005 that donated equipment to one school in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Today, a local workshop funded by Nature and the IOP builds 100 sets [...]
Marvin and Milo go to Africa
Imagine this… A school with no running water, where the labs have just basic apparatus, no gas, one power point each, and only sporadic electricity. This is the situation at the Kabale School, Bukoba, Tanzania, which faced David Morgan & Christine Forbes – a science teacher & a chemistry technician from The Thomas Hardye School, [...]
