Leadership By Numbers :: Help Draft an HIV+/AIDS Grant for IBM/Lotus

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For many years, I've been providing financial and technical support to an HIV+/AIDS orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya: Nyumbani. Over the last year, I've been nudging different IBM contacts for support to Nyumbani. I'd like to set up a grant for Domino/Notes licenses, and am welcoming any assistance in creating a draft proposal.

Lotus Grant Guidelines

Here's a sketch, in three sections, that summarize the needs and a proposed solution:

Specific Technical Request
Technical Analysis and Business Need
Nyumbani Programs

Specific Technical Request

Two (2) Domino server licenses (the physical servers will be hosted on-site at Nyumbani, the other in the US. I am not requesting hardware.)

100 Client licenses

The server OS will be Linux, and the clients will be a mix of Linux and Windows.

Technical Analysis and Business Need

The primary facility has a satellite connection from Nairobi, for Internet access.

Their Internet service has high signal latency, frequent disconnects, power outages, and they are charged by packet count.

They do have one, full-time, technical support person wearing many hats, inlcuding system administrator (I've been supplying training materials and have been able to provide an LPI.org authorized course).

Security is paramount, they deal with medical records and HIV+/AIDS treatment.

Their e-mail is a patchwork of yahoo, gmail, and nyumbani.org accounts. In order to send a document or e-mail from one office to another down the hall, the route has to go by satellite, to Europe or North America, back through the satellite and into the second user.

There is a need to support a blog presence (currently, there is FriendsOfNyumbani.org which has been supported by a DC Business Partner).

Medical record keeping: they have been using a spreadsheet

Technical education for the older children (job skill placement). I built a Nyumbani Computer Learning Center, which has been quite successful, and very popular.

Nyumbani Programs: Nyumbani provides support for a greater number of HIV+/AIDS children, than the total number of AIDS children in the entire US. They have a registered, (501(c)(3) tax-exempt, US Board, as well as boards in the UK and Italy. They are supported by US AID and have many corporate accounts, such as Lockheed-Martin.