In 2006 just before we left, Bucks County Community College in Newtown, PA gave us 5 Pentium 3 desktop computers. Thank you BCCC!
We put these computers on the Box truck we were shipping to Haiti and they arrived in Port-au-Prince in January of 2007.
Since then they have been used to teach typing to about 20 girls in an orphanage and just the other day we gave them to College Evangelique Maranatha (CEM) for their computer lab. CEM is one of the best primary and secondary schools in Haiti with over 90% of their students passing the national exams every year.
CEM has over 400 students, so the computers will get lots of use and benefit lots of students.
We were limited in the number of schools that could use desk top computers because they use a lot of electricity. In addition they are very heavy and expensive to ship.
Now we are looking for laptop computers since they are lighter and don't use as much electricity. Please let us know if you know of any places that might want to donate used laptops to Haiti!
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