Photos: How old PCs are creating opportunitiesWill Sturgeon silicon.com
Published: 14 Feb 2007 16:22 GMT
Tony Roberts (left), chief executive and founder of Computer Aid International, cuts the ribbon on a shipment of PCs delivered to Kenya and hands over the first piece of kit to a pupil at Starehe Boys' Centre.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony in Nairobi was watched by a group of visitors from the UK's IT industry, who were in Kenya to take part in a 400km fundraising bike ride across the country. The group raised enough money to put complete computer suites in 30 Kenyan schools. Among the riders were three from ZDNet UK's publisher, CNET Networks UK, who raised more than £16,000 for Computer Aid International.
Computer Aid's Kenyan partner, Computers For Schools Kenya (CFSK), receives thousands of PCs, servers and monitors from organisations both in Kenya and abroad — including Computer Aid .
These typically come from companies that are upgrading their own PCs and decide they want their old machines recycled responsibly.
Photo credit: Will Sturgeon
Photos: Old PCs help Africa's blindFollowing our participation in Computer Aid's cycle challenge in Kenya, ZDNet UK took some time to check out other projects being run by the organisation, which takes old PCs from businesses and refurbishes them for use in the developing world.
One organisation that Computer Aid is currently partnering with is the Kenyan Union of the Blind (KUB). Executive officer Martin Kieti, himself partially sighted, explained the challenges faced by blind children and students in Kenya and how IT can provide much-needed access to information.
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