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27 changes: 27 additions & 0 deletions labs/mexico/centro_apostolico_femenino_santo_domingo.mdx
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---
title: Centro Apostolico Femenino Santo Domingo
description: Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

<LabHeader
location="Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heroica+Ciudad+de+Huajuapan+de+Leon,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.8009408,-97.8043375,14z"
dateEstablished="2009"
/>

This school for girls in Huajuapan de León is one of the first schools to receive a Kids on Computers® computer lab. It is formally known as Centro Apostolico Femenino Santo Domingo, but in conversation we refer to it as The Girls’ School. The school is managed by an order of Catholic nuns and exists to house and educate girls in their adolescent and young adult years. The resident girls come from hostile and threatening domestic environments. While living there they are taught skills that can allow them to live productively and independently without needing to return to the circumstances they experienced earlier.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/centro_apostolico_femenino_santo_domingo_1.jpg',
caption: 'Santo Domingo Girl\'s School'
},
]} />

Kids on Computers® founders who were familiar with Huajuapan de León were aware of this school and the school’s wish to teach computer skills. With considerable help from local volunteers, a room was made available and modified to house a computer lab. Some of the computers transported to Huajuapan de León in 2009 were installed at this school’s lab. The residents and the staff were courteous and very grateful on all our visits there.

When Kids on Computers® volunteers visited the school in October 2012 there had been a change in the school’s administration. The new Mother Superior wanted a different direction for the lab and in the computer technology that was used to train the girls. Her view was in conflict with Kids on Computers® principles and after several meetings we were unable to reach an agreement.

We consider the effort a success while it existed, but we each have gone in divergent directions. We count the Santo Domingo Girls’ School as a former computer lab.
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---
title: Centro de Atención Múltiple (CAM) No. 27
description: Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

<LabHeader
location="Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/69800+Tlaxiaco,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.2674069,-97.6876088,15z"
dateEstablished="2009"
/>

Centro de Atención Múltiple No. 27 (CAM 27) is a school for disabled children in the community of Tlaxiaco in the state of Oaxaca. A computer lab was established in 2009 with the help of early Kids on Computers® volunteers. The school was relocated and the not all computers turned on properly after the move. The current school building consists of one room, with the computer lab separated by a curtain from the general classroom.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/centro_de_atencion_multiple_27_1.jpg',
caption: 'Centro de Atención Múltiple (CAM) No. 27, Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
]} />

In 2015 Kids on Computers® volunteers, some who live and work in the city of Oaxaca, visited the school to upgrade the computer lab and contributed six laptops to the installation.
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---
title: Tehuacán
sidebar_position: 7
title: Colegio Británico
description: Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico
---
# Tehuacán, Puebla
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

## Colegio Británico

![Colegio Británico](/img/mexico/colegio_britanico.jpg)
<LabHeader
location="Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tehuac%C3%A1n,+Puebla,+Mexico/@18.4582483,-97.4485656,13z"
dateEstablished="2012"
/>

Colegio Británico is a school which has two locations in the city of Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico. Sección Primeria is the elementary school for grades 1 through 6 and is located near the Mesoamerican University.

Colegio Británico sección Jardín de Niños is the equivalent of a U.S. kindergarten and is near the city center, about 3 km distant from Sección Primeria.

There are about 90 students in the sección Primeria and about 140 children in the kindergarten. Scholarships are available to children whose families cannot afford the tuition. Most students continue on to middle school.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/colegio_britanico.jpg',
caption: 'Colegio Británico de Tehuacán A.C, Tehuacán, Mexico'
},
]} />

Kids on Computers® learned of Colegio Británico in autumn of 2011. A friend of some of the Kids on Computers® volunteers living in Northern Colorado was telling us about her mother’s school in Tehuacán. At about that same time, a school in California donated 70 very similar laptops to us. We decided that those laptops would be a good fit for Colegio Británico’s needs and the Board of Directors approved. We set a goal to get as many as possible ready to deliver by Christmas.

Twenty of the laptops were selected randomly and shipped to Northern Colorado to be prepared for Colegio Británico. The laptops were tested, refurbished as necessary, and configured with Edubuntu. The first six were ready to deliver by Christmas 2011. Those six were hand carried from Colorado to Tehuacán when family members visited for Christmas. We learned that it was very cost effective, but not necessarily the quickest way to transport laptops.

Colegio Británico received those six laptops and had them installed in classrooms in January 2012. More laptops were configured and hand carried to Mexico later that year. Colegio Británico now has a total of nineteen laptops donated by Kids on Computers®. All have been hand carried from Colorado to the school by friends and family of the school directors.

The children’s enthusiasm is obvious in these photos.

The success of the Colegio Británico computer classes inspired a financial donation from the Parents Board. That donation was used locally to purchase more computers for the sección Primeria.

Class is in session at Colegio Británico. The computer instructor guides the children toward computer literacy. He also is responsible for teaching other instructors and administrative staff.
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---
title: Escuela 18 de Marzo
description: Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico
---

import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

<LabHeader
location="Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heroica+Ciudad+de+Huajuapan+de+Leon,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.8009408,-97.8043375,14z"
dateEstablished="2009"
/>

Escuela 18 de Marzo, located in one of the least affluent parts of the city of Huajuapan de León, is one of the first schools to benefit from our efforts. In 2008 and 2009 parents and the school administrators were enthusiastic about the prospects of having a computer lab for the children. They worked together to build a new room on the school site that was intended specifically to house a computer lab. When the expected computers did not arrive, they turned to Kids on Computers® for help. In 2009 Kids on Computers® installed several donated computers in the new lab.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/escuela_18_de_marzo_1.jpg',
caption: 'Escuela 18 de Marzo, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
]} />

In May 2011 a team of five Kids on Computers® volunteers visited the school again, bringing more computers, updating software, fixing computers that had problems, and identifying systems that could not be repaired. But, most importantly, they conducted computer training sessions for both students and teachers. Volunteers have visited the school several times since then, addressing problems, updating software, installing new computers, and conducting training.

This school, which thrives today, is one of the finest examples of cooperation among school administration, a very dedicated teacher, concerned parents, eager students, and Kids on Computers®.

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---
title: Guadalupe de Ramírez
sidebar_position: 4
title: Escuela Antonio de León
description: Guadalupe de Ramírez, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
# Guadalupe de Ramírez, Oaxaca
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

## Escuela Antonio de León
<LabHeader
location="Guadalupe de Ramírez, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/69150+Guadalupe+de+Ram%C3%ADrez,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.7586451,-98.1712004,16z"
dateEstablished="2012"
/>

In October 2012, a group of Kids on Computers® volunteers traveled from the United States to Huajuapan de León. Our goal was to visit established computer labs and to set up two new ones. While there, we made the two hour drive to Guadalupe de Ramírez, also in the state of Oaxaca. Escuela Antonio de León, the primary school there, had a few computers already in place from other providers, but the teachers were dissatisfied with reliability and OS security. Our goal was to configure all existing computers with our chosen OS and to add laptops having the same OS image to the computer lab.

Establishing a Kids on Computers® computer lab at Escuela Antonio de León had been proposed, deliberated and approved by the Board of Directors. Kids on Computers® volunteers in the United States had prepared laptops for the school prior to the trip. We had also prepared installation media for the computers that were already in place. Using that media we upgraded the existing computers to our standard configuration, leaving a total of seventeen working computers for the school’s children.

Ten of the computers at this school are shared with Conalep High School in Huajuapan de León.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/conalep_high_school_1.png',
caption: 'Conalep High School, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
]} />

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---
title: Escuela Emiliano Zapata
description: Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

<LabHeader
location="Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Heroica+Ciudad+de+Huajuapan+de+Leon,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.8009408,-97.8043375,14z"
dateEstablished="2015"
/>

Kids on Computers® volunteers first visited this school site in October 2012. The school was vacant, without teachers or students. We had carried some computers to establish a new lab there, but left that day without installing them.

In 2015, Kids on Computers® volunteers installed fifteen laptops at a newly built lab.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/esceuala_emiliano_zapata_1.jpg',
caption: 'Escuela Emiliano Zapata, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
]} />

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---
title: Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán
sidebar_position: 6
title: Escuela José Vasconselos
description: Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
# Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

<LabHeader
location="Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Santa+Cruz+Xoxocotl%C3%A1n,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.0233018,-96.7655883,14z"
dateEstablished="2016"
/>

Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán is small city about six kilometres south and west from central Oaxaca. The historically significant Monte Albán archeological site is within the city, and near the schools where we have established computer labs.

Since 2015, KoC volunteers, some of whom live in the area, have established three computer labs in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán.

## Escuela José Vasconselos

![Escuela José Vasconselos](/img/mexico/escuela_jose_vasconselos_1.jpg)
<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/escuela_jose_vasconselos_1.jpg',
caption: 'Escuela José Vasconselos, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
]} />

This school is located in the city of Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, west and south of central Oaxaca. It is a bilingual school in that it teaches in Spanish and an indigenous language which could be Mixe, Mixtec, Zapotec, etc. There are about 150 children at this school. The school has a hot lunch program for the children, which is not common in that area, and some of the produce and vegetables served at lunch are grown in the school’s garden.

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---
title: Saucitlán de Morelos
sidebar_position: 2
title: Gittes Family Lab at Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica
description: Saucitlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
# Saucitlán de Morelos, Oaxaca
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

## Gittes Family Lab at Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica

![Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica](/img/mexico/escuela_manuel_gonzales_gatica_1.jpg)
<LabHeader
location="Saucitlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Saucitl%C3%A1n+de+Morelos,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.7845659,-97.8451034,16z"
dateEstablished="2011"
/>

Saucitlán de Morelos is a community of about 500 people located in a valley about 12 km southwest of Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico.

The final road to Saucitlán is unpaved and steep in many places. Close to the village, it is not unusual to find domesticated animals wandering on the road or even the streets.


<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/escuela_manuel_gonzales_gatica_1.jpg',
caption: 'Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica, Saucitlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
{
src: '/img/mexico/gittes_family_lab_1.jpg',
caption: 'Daniel “Nick” Gittes'
},
]} />

The computer lab in Saucitlan’s primary school, Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica, was initially established in May 2011. In that year five Kids on Computers® volunteers had traveled to Huajuapan de León along with local volunteers. A local bank had donated fifteen computers to the school. When we arrived at the school we discovered that the bank had removed the hard drives from the donated computers. After assessing the situation and the equipment we had available to us, we decided to establish server-client configurations using LTSP. We took four other computers which had hard drives, and used them as servers. We configured the computers without hard drives as clients, then completed installation and configuration.

To maintain this type of setup requires having strong local technical support. Additionally, many of these computers were over 10 years old. When we came back during our 2014 KOC Mexico trip, the lab was in disuse. We realized that an LTSP setup in a remote region with little technical support would not work.
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The computer lab currently in place at this school was made possible by a very generous donation. Kids on Computers® had recognized that $10,000 USD would fund one entire computer lab. We announced that a donor giving at that level would have the privilege of naming the computer lab. In 2011 we received such a donation from Philip Greenspun. This donation allowed us to buy 22 computers which we distributed throughout four labs, 2 projectors, 2 DVD burners, headphones, and other peripherals. In 2013 the computer lab at Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica was renamed in memory of Daniel “Nick” Gittes (1902-2000) of Melrose, Massachusetts.

![Escuela Manuel Gonzalez Gatica](/img/mexico/gittes_family_lab_1.jpg)
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---
title: San Marcos Arteaga
sidebar_position: 3
title: Escuela Ricardo Flores Magón
description: San Marcos Arteaga, Oaxaca, Mexico
---
# San Marcos Arteaga, Oaxaca
import LabHeader from '@site/src/components/LabHeader';
import ImageGallery from '@site/src/components/ImageGallery';

## Escuela Ricardo Flores Magón

![Escuela Ricardo Flores Magón](/img/mexico/escuela_ricardo_flores_magon_1.jpg)
<LabHeader
location="San Marcos Arteaga, Oaxaca, Mexico"
locationUrl="https://www.google.com/maps/place/69270+San+Marcos+Arteaga,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@17.7214981,-97.8682508,16z"
dateEstablished="2011"
/>

San Marcos Arteaga is a community of about 1000 people located about 16km southwest of the city of Huajuapan de León in Oaxaca, Mexico. The primary school, Escuela Ricardo Flores Magón, is located across a street from the central plaza.

<ImageGallery images={[
{
src: '/img/mexico/escuela_ricardo_flores_magon_1.jpg',
caption: 'Escuela Ricardo Flores Magón, San Marcos Arteaga, Oaxaca, Mexico'
},
]} />

Five volunteers from Kids on Computers traveled to Huajuapan de León in May of 2011. While in the Huajuapan area, they and some local volunteers traveled to San Marcos Arteaga to establish a computer lab in the primary school. Six laptops had been hand carried from the U.S.A. and designated for this school.

The room that had been designated for the computer lab had electrical power, but had no way to connect to the internet. The nearest telephone and modem was in the San Marcos Arteaga Municipal Building, inside the Mayor’s office – across the street and two buildings away. With the help of local volunteers we strung cable from the Municipal Building, up through the ceiling and roof, across two adjacent roofs, across a street and into the school building.
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