Brief DFC News from Around the World
Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 9:52PM
India - our partner from Orissa, Bipin Mohanty, had translated the toolkit into BRAILLE!! India has reached over 30,000 schools, and the registrations have started coming in - you can look them up here.
USA - got its first sponsor - Think Fun - who have generously offered to donate 10 of their best games as one of the prizes!
Bhutan - Main TV channel partnering with DFC. Children of Early Learning Centre were filmed to 'infect' the entire nation!
Finland - Jury members selected and toolkit has been translated into Finnish. Unicef is supporting DFC Finland!
Brazil - made the first movie on Raffi's 'I CAN song'....( will be soon uploaded on the main DFC site )
Sri Lanka - Read about the infection on Mihirini's blog
Mexico - 10,000 schools infected!
Thailand - 1,500 students infected with Design for Change. Of these, over 200 students worked together to submit 56 projects to improve their community. Top five will win some award.
Taiwan / Japan - Kiran to visit both places mid November for DFC events. Cengage group supporting DFC in Japan.
Canada - TEDx Toronto includes DFC in their event on Sept 30th - Kiran to speak via Skype and Raffi to be present at TEDx - The 'I Can Song' will be played at the event.
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