We recently had the privilege of helping an academy in Ghana get up-to-date with some new laptops. Here’s the story: Background The Street Academy (www.thestreetacademy.webs.com) received 5 Linux Edubuntu laptops from ComputeReach and its partners at the very end of March 2012. This was possible thanks to the generous donation of our laptop sponsor, Mike...
This is a picture of ComputeReach giving computers to our staff at an orphanage in Churachandpur, Manipur, India. It’s in the northeast corner of India, east of Bangladesh and just west of Myanmar. From left to right is Don Vice from Lafayette, IN; Leslie Swensen of Churchill, PA; R. Sang, from India; R. Ruata, the superintendent of...
This week the LAN VWA “the voice” charity installed 8 Macs from Computer Reach at Project Joconal Solar in Joconal, Guatemala. Founder and President of the Project, Kelly Weaver, shares her passion for early childhood education by quoting Nelson Mandela: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” The...
TED Talks is a daily video podcast where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. It’s one of the best resources out there for any forward thinker. This video especially hit home for us as we are always trying to reduce waste and salvage the resources we do...
Our organization revolves around recycling but we can’t do it alone. What we need is to get larger organizations on board with the big -picture goal. The problem so far has been that it’s another job for someone to take, and no one wants more work. Here are a few good ways to help make...
Starting this January, Pennsylvania residents will be required to properly recycle electronic devices. According to The Pennsylvania Covered Device Recycling Act, which goes into effect January 24, 2013, residents and trash collectors will be required to recycle computers, laptops, monitors, televisions and any other “covered” device. This means that you will no longer be able...
The computers we arranged to have donated to schools in Ghana continue to make their way into teachers’ hands. Recently, the efforts were featured in a Ghanian newspaper, Modern Ghana. This article focuses on the donation of 10 computers to the Madina Demonstration School. We wouldn’t be able to do this work without the help...
On April 19th, ComputeReach had the honor of being a finalist for the 2012 Jefferson Awards for Public Service. The six finalists were presented during the ceremony, and the winner became Pittsburgh’s nominee for the national Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis award. Here’s some more information about the award: In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft...
We never got a chance to that the 38 volunteers who helped us back on June 30th. This wonderful crew met at our warehouse on an especially hot and humid day to prepare 118 computers that are going to Ghana this Summer. All the computers have Edubuntu Linux installed. The event is shown in this short...
Last Saturday, we rallied a team of three volunteers to refresh the OS9 iMac lab of eleven computers in the Hill District section of Pittsburgh. For the last month we’ve been slowly making our way back to the few BJWL sites that do not have Mac OS X or Edubuntu Linux installed, but rather a...
