MISSION: To make available literacy and an elementary education for every little girl and little boy in Afghanistan who does not have a regular school or teacher. 

OLPC's XO LAPTOP COMPUTER: To deliver education to children without schools and without teachers, MTSA has adopted as its technology platform the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptop computer. Created at the MIT Media Lab, the XO laptop was conceived and created to bring literacy and education to millions of children in the developing world.  

NASRUDIN:   To teach children their letters and numbers, a comic but educational video game is being created, starring this favorite Afghan character.  The real Nasrudin lived during the 13th century in Afghanistan and Central Asia, wandering about on his undersized donkey, making jokes and wise sayings, returning always to his beloved wife and children in his rural village. 

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27th May 2009

Hon. Carol Ruth Silver, Project Director of MTSA, is preparing her visit to Afghanistan in July. She will make final arrangements for deployment of 50 XO laptop computers to children in home schools, as detailed in the MTSA Pilot Proposal in conjunction with the OLPC-Afghanistan and the Trust in Education (TIE) organizations.

25 May 2009

Eng. Latif Amadi, head of Afghan Film and a MTSA board member, meets with a group of Afghan computer technicians in Kabul to further the development of an educational video and educational software game based on the lore of Nasrudin. The video and software game will teach basic literacy in Dari or Pashto.

1st May 2009

Budd MacKenzie, Founder of Trust in Education (TIE), which is supporting home based schools in (relatively) safe rural areas near Kabul, agrees to participate in the Pilot Proposal.

15 April 2009

Svetlana Senajova, Technical Director of OLPC-Afghanistan commits to the Pilot Project providing 50 of the OLPC XO laptops, subject to availability, for deployment in Afghan home schools.

15 March 2009

Draft proposal for a pilot program to deliver 50 of OLPC's XO laptop computers to home schooling groups that are out of reach of the Afghanistan educational system.

8 August 2008

MTSA has garnered important endorsements from Afghanistan educational groups as well as Afghanistan and American politicians.

15 May 2008

MTSA adopted as its technology platform the OLPC's XO laptop computer.

17th April 2007

Presentation to the US Congress Human Rights Caucus by MTSA, including Power Point slides and video excerpts. See the news clip in Pashto. Read More

15th April 2007

See the slides prepared for the U. S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus presentation MTSA slide presentation to Congress.

5th April 2007

Invitation received from Congressman Tom Lantos to Hon. Carol Ruth Silver and MTSA to present their program in a briefing before the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus (comprised of 10 Senators and 120 Members of the House of Representatives), on the 17th of April, in Washington, DC.
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