School Computer Labs

Qualified Institutions

Academic and community-facing organizations meeting certain legitimacy, purpose, need and readiness criteria may apply to receive computer systems from ZL.

• Legitimacy: the organization must have a track record of successfully delivering services to the community.

• Purpose: the organization must have have  a clear, assessable objective for the requested equipment.

• Need:  the organization must demonstrate a financial need.

• Readiness: the organizaiton must have a plan for personnel, space, power and other infrastructures required to successfully carry out the stated objectives.

Program details are outlined below.  Click 'Apply' to submit a request for equipment.

Program Details

ZanmiLwen aims to deliver affordable, effective and technically sustainable education technology solutions for schools in Haiti.  We primarily deliver Linux-based computing solutions that include

● a standardized, complete, pre-configured, plug and play network (server, workstations, printers, routers, etc.).

● a trivial, system restoration procedure to return workstations to their delivery state in under 10 minutes, when necessary.

● 500+ pre-loaded French and Kreyol open-source books.

● dozens of pre-installed educational software packages (PHeT, Scratch, Tux, Anki, etc.)

● off-line access to network resources like Wikipedia, Khan Academy, the Gutenberg Library, etc.

● French/Kreyol "how-to" videos to quickly get teachers and system administrators up and running.

We make our system images available for download, allowing anyone to replicate the software elements onto almost any other computer, including older hardware.