I had intended to report on a donation we made recently to an orphanage and school in Haiti, bit we have not yet gotten pictures from that donation, so let me tell you what a sister organization in Nebraska just did.
We have helped a number of computer refurbishing projects get started, but probably the most successful is the Superior Pawnee Computer Society (http://spcsne.org/) in Superior Nebraska. Superior is a small (population 2,055, less than 2 square miles) city near the Nebraska/Kansas border, yet they have refurbished more computers than there are people living in Superior, which they have provided to worthy recipients (including several projects for deaf children), not just in Nebraska, but also in Kansas, South Dakota, and several other states.
And they recently sent two shipping containers, with a total of more than 8,000 units of computer components and books, to Africa. Norwegian People’s Aid, the Norwegian labor movement’s humanitarian aid organization, arranged for transporting the shipment to Africa, and half of the equipment went to the southern Sudan, and half went to other countries where Norwegian People’s Aid were helping people.
The container that went to South Sudan contained 451 central processing units, 1,450 keyboards, 30 printers, 120 hard drives, other computer accessories and an estimated 4,800 books. These were delivered to the Juba Girls Secondary School, where they were welcomed by “very excited” students, he said. Temporarily, the space for working with the computers being provided at the school. The minister of Central Equatorial Education has made land available to the computer society for construction of a building that eventually will serve as their headquarters. Some of the computers will be transported from Juba to Nasir County, where another center would be established.