Computers for Africa
Two years ago, we took Louise and Daniel on their first travelling adventure to South Africa. We spent a couple of weeks in Cape Town and also ventured further up the coast, two hours from Port Elizabeth to a place called Kenton-on-Sea. It was there that we met Erica McNulty and Mike and Marijke Kirby who introduced us to the some of the surrounding community.
On our return to the UK we wrote an article for the local paper about our experience (it provides the background for the next bit of the story) and set about trying to put something back into the community that had made us feel so welcome. Given our background in IT, the obvious choice was to try send some computers that could be used in the local schools.
April 2005: notes from our holiday in South Africa, Kenton-on-Sea
Two years later, with the support of RM (thanks Terry Sweeney) and a lot of chasing (our thanks to James MacIntyre who followed it all through whilst we were in NZ), the computers have not only arrived but are being put to good use. The following link is an article written recently by the Kenton Community Computer Centre about the project.
April 2007: update from South Africa, turning ideas into reality
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