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...
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...
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...
