OMPT helps to progress the UN Sustainable Development Goal 17, which lays out targets for technology and capacity building that utilize partners in the international community to provide access to technology and innovation in order to enhance sustainability and implement developmental practices.

We invite you to join this powerful and motivated community for good and become part of an amazing experience which is manifesting in the non-profit company, One Mobile Projector per Trainer (OMPT). Join us in our vision to go to the poorest countries in the world and provide a catalyst and means for change.

OMPT has been training and equipping charities and ministries of government to use video in rural communities for over 10 years. We know that video is one of the most powerful tools for effecting behavior change, and we’re excited for another 10 years of revolutionary communication.

Were excited to unveil a new aspect of our intervention: the Capacity Development Program!

As a recent International Studies graduate of Chico State University, OMPT intern Carli is passionate about how technology can impact the future of marginalized communities around the world. As this week is UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week, we thought it would be a great time to learn more about where she got her start, her excitement for technology in developing nations, and what she thinks might change the world.

If you don't live in the top ten or twenty percent of the world's population, electronics technology has almost no impact on your life. Simple conveniences like running water or electricity are unheard-of luxuries. Video is not even a concept. You and your family likely live on less than a dollar a day and your way of life is probably not that different from your ancestors’ who lived a few hundred years ago.

We’ve done a lot this year! illuminAid staff Matt, Kristin, Robin and Laurie share some of the highlights from our projects in Mali, Burkina Faso and Malawi.

Today, December 5th, is International Volunteer Day, a day when non-profits across the globe celebrate the incredible work volunteers do on behalf of our missions. OMPT relies on its amazing network of volunteers for so much, from small but important things like preparing our equipment kits for a workshop to editing videos and even, in the case of our Videomakers Without Borders, helping us host entire workshops--your continued support means the world to us.

For several years OMPT has been supplying our partners with the same projector—the reliable, affordable and eminently transportable Philips PicoPix Pocket Projector. Today, we are sad to announce that the PicoPix is no longer available in the United States.

Anyone who has been watching the news over the past week may have heard mention of the incredibly destructive fires that have broken out across California. One fire in particular, the Camp Fire (named for the location where the fire originally began), has had a profound impact on OMPT.