Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Twitterkids of Tanzania

"This week, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt. Meru, a group of schoolkids discovered Twitter. A year ago, Shepherds Junior School hadn't even been built yet and students who didn't even have access to a library couldn't have imagined that they would be able to communicate with the whole world through donations from social media.

"That's where a U.S. nonprofit called Epic Change came in..."

Click here to read the full story on Huffington Post.com


"THE TWITTERKIDS OF TANZANIA

"Hujambo from Tanzania! I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt. Meru, Shepherds Junior School was connected to the internet for the very first time. The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude

Click here to read the full post on Epic Change's blog.

Click here to follow the #twitterkids meme on Twitter.

Click here to followthe aggregated @ShepherdsJr account on twitter

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