USED LAPTOPS NEEDED FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN HAITI
InterConnection and World
Concern have partnered to send refurbished laptops to Haiti.
Anyone can help by donating a working Pentium 3 or Pentium 4
laptop by mail, shipping costs will be covered. Equipment will
be refurbished, equipped with French Microsoft Windows and
Office, shipped to Haiti and deployed as communication hubs
wherever they are needed the most.
Susan Talbot, with World Concern states," Imagine the loss of
computers in this disaster. Schools, hospitals, NGOs would all
have lost hard drives and laptops. They have no resources to
replace these items. We work with orphans and vulnerable
children and their caregivers. We have five offices around Haiti
having sustained unknown amounts of damage. Our capacity to
respond to disasters relies on our capacity to communicate not
only with each other but with donors and funders, sharing
beneficiary stories."
World Concern is a
humanitarian relief organization and their primary office in
Port Au Prince was damaged by the earthquake and nearby
buildings collapsed. Some of their staff are unaccounted for,
yet they still are working to provide blankets, plastic sheeting
and emergency supplies of water.
InterConnection, a
Seattle based non-profit, offers a laptop donation by mail
program that allows anyone, anywhere in the nation to donate.
Shipping costs for functional Pentium 3 and 4 or better laptops
are covered by InterConnection.
InterConnection will wipe the hard drives of donated laptops,
test them, and install a French version of Windows and Office
for use in Haiti. World Concern staff will bring the laptops
with them on their flights to Haiti.
The goal is to ship 100 laptops to Haiti. Some laptops will be
used to sponsor the cost of refurbishing and prepping the
laptops.