Computers Headed to Kenya

FDR said that December 7 is a day to live in infamy, but to Eliphas Kimathi Wiiliam, the Country Program Co-Ordinator for Book Aid Trust in Nairobi, Kenya it may be the day that he finally got computers headed to Kenya. Jarrett Mirkes is a Peace Corp volunteer who was here in August, learning how to refurbish computers, and we came up with 40 computers, including two Road Warriors which they could use to refurbish even more computers, but shipping problems prevented them from going out, and they have remained in my storage shed ever since. But Kimathi sent Msita Dora Akinyi here to learn a bit about refurbishing, and then to arrange for all of the machines to be shipped out. We added 21 additional machines to the stack while Dora was here, and today A-1 Freeman Moving Group came and loaded all 61 computers, monitors, and some books that Kimathi had shipped here. They will be palletized at their offices, and then sent up to Chicago, where Shelly Roberson with Stevens Worldwide will combine them with some books that Kimathi had gotten donated, and ship everything to Kenya.

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Mike Stockton showing Dora how to refurbish a computer
Dora removing the Hard Drive from a computer

Putting one box in the truck, and going back for more
Handcart loaded with computers from the shed,
and going around the house to the truck.
We failed to take photos of the 61 computers in the storage shed,
but here are the 40 computers in the shed as of Jarrett's visit in August

The shelves were full of monitors
Computers and boxes with keyboards and books
filled the center of the 10' x 20' shed

Books and computers collected by Book Aid Trust will be used
in many different schools and libraries in Kenya to improve literacy in the country,
but one group that will receive them is the Maximum Miracle Children's Home




Earlier books collected by Book Aid Trust were distributed to the Maximum Miracle Children's Home

Kimathi (1) and Dora (3)
Dora's lovely daughter Allbright


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