KATHMANDU: Some 200 children of the Shree Chandi Devi Primary School located on a remote mountain in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal now enjoy innovative laptop-based learning under the global One Laptop Per Child Programme initiated by AirAsia X. The airline launched the pilot educational programme in Nepal on Tuesday.
The initiative is AirAsia X’s first international community outreach programme in conjunction with its new Kathmandu route. It is also a project in collaboration with the soon-to-be-launched AirAsia Foun-dation.
AirAsia X sponsored 30 specially designed XO laptops, costing US$225 (RM675) each, for young children and also trained the teachers on integrating digital learning resources in classroom teaching.
The project is in partnership with Open Learning Exchange Nepal, a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the quality of education in the landlocked country.
“We are humbled to be in a position to make a difference in the lives of children in a country we are operating in, especially as education is a personal vision of AirAsia Group founder and director Tan Sri Tony Fernandes,” said AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani during a visit to the school with AirAsia X chairman Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz.
-thestar online.
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