A small initiative from my work place plans to teach very basic computers to not so fortunate kids. I was looking for some very basic topics/resources. These kids are very young and have not seen/worked with a computer before.
The fun factor should not be lost and hence I don't want it to be rigorous, just plain, what is computer, keyboard, mouse, browser, where to look for what (google.com) and so on.
Has any-one done this sort of thing before, if yes, could you point me to some resources.
The BBC do some superb games that are a fun introduction to using computers for children, and educational too
The Lifelong Kindergarten Project at MIT developed Scratch, an interactive programming language, and a whole lot of resources for teching computing in context similar to what you describe. There are also educator's resources for people organising Scratch-based teaching. It's based partly on the ideas on Seymour Papert.
I know some people who have used Scratch with 6-8 year-old children, not from deprived backgrounds though, but with great success. There's material on the LLK website about using their materials with kids from deprived backgrounds.