Monthly Archives: September 2020

Distribution of PPEs to households around Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory

Target location: Ghana Target audience: An estimated 5000 people live around GRAO with about 2000 students. This will include basic school, high school and university students. The project intends to reach the community living around the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory and distribute face masks, hand sanitizers and other PPEs as well as discuss astronomy as […]

Distance Learning for Home-Bound Students Amid COVID-19

Target location: Tanzania Target audience: Primary and Secondary students and teachers, from both private and public schools, and government education officers. The Distance Learning for Home-Bound Students project directly addresses the education barriers in developing countries such as Tanzania where on-line access and computers are very limited. The project enables teachers to continue engaging their […]

Development on an online platform for Assessment of COVID-19 spread for planning and implementation of timely intervention

Target location: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Target audience: National government COVID-19 coordination team and humanitarian assistance entities The project aims to develop an online platform for mapping COVID-19 hots spots in order to provide a near real-time information that will help plan interventions such as location of quarantine facilities, humanitarian assistance, distribution of resources such […]

Development of online astronomy lessons for students in Ghana

Target location: Ghana Target audience: An estimated 30000 students including basic school, high school and university students. The materials available can be accessed by all people who are interested in astronomy and are not within our group of students and pupils, hence providing a wider outreach The project will develop online lessons in astronomy and […]

COVID-19 Support for Internally Displaced Persons

Target location: Nigeria Target audience: Internally Displaced Persons in Kuchingoro IDP camp The project plan is to provide hygiene support at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria. The camp has over 2500 inhabitants mostly living in overcrowded rooms and shared facilities, including 500 children. The project team, which previously visited the camp for […]