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The University Sunrise Rotary Club has a long standing relationship supporting TINFA (Technology and Information for All) bring technology to rural student learning in Guatemala. Our program will be a report on the progress of the effort. Speaking will be Emma Le Du, TINFA’s Director and Mike Madden, Secretary and a board member of the University Sunrise Rotary Club, as well as a board member of TINFA.
Mike will summarize the partnership with TINFA to date, and the status of our Rotary Global Grant projects, “Technology for Teachers in Rural Guatemala I & II.” Then, Emma will talk about the conditions in Guatemala now, what we are doing to adapt to the pandemic shut-down and plans for the rest of the current project.
Emma Le Dû is the Exec. Director of TINFA. She has previously held positions at the Grameen Foundation as Senior Technical Program Manager. She has been in Information Technology for over 15 years, at Microsoft and Amazon.com in various positions in International and Program Management. Emma has spent two years in Lao P.D.R, as a computer consultant to the European Union and UNDP. She holds an Engineering degree in Robotics and Electronics (ESIGELEC in Rouen France) and a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School (Harvard University) with a focus on Leadership and International Development. Emma is TINFA’s co-founder.
Mike Madden is retired and lives in the Loyal Heights neighborhood of Seattle, just north of Ballard. He attended Western Washington University and completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, majoring in History and French. Mike taught at Meadowdale Junior High School for five years before joining Safeco Life Insurance Company, now known as Symetra Life Insurance. Mike retired from Symetra as Vice President and head of the Individual Product Line after a rewarding thirty-three year career there. Mike believes in volunteer service, having served several years as President of the Northwest Regional Board of Dollars for Scholars. He is a board member and Secretary of the University Sunrise Rotary Club. He is a volunteers with the Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas tutoring organization and is President of the Board of Bright Future Dollars for Scholars.