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We are setting up a computer room at The Living in Simple Faith House and some of the computers will come through Virtual Scavengers. Tina and I will go work for them four days and then on the fifth day, we'll get to build our computer and take it home! By the time school is out, we'll have four computers worked out and we'll have a greater ability to challenge restless bodies into being active minds. Here's more about the Virtual Scavengers project (from their website):
Good Works for a Good Earth: The Case for The Virtual Scavengers Project
In the fall, a single working mother comes to Virtual Scavengers on the city's east side. Enthusiastic and determined, she signs on for a program through which people who cannot afford to buy a computer can earn one. For four consecutive Saturdays, she works five hours in the Virtual Scavengers warehouse; the organization provides her a hot lunch. On the fifth Saturday, she receives a free computer and instruction on how to set it up and operate it. The woman considers the enormity of this Christmas gift for her son - and cries.
Workers at an Indianapolis food bank learn that one of their clients, a legally blind man, has solid computer skills. They send him to Virtual Scavengers, where he purchases a computer for $25. It is equipped with a 25-inch monitor that allows him to use his limited vision to provide medical transcription services.
An accountant flees political turmoil in his African homeland. He and his family arrive in Indianapolis through the Catholic Social Services Refugee Resettlement Program. He immediately looks for work, but language and cultural barriers prove overwhelming. He enrolls in Virtual Scavengers' hands-on apprenticeship program where he can receive certifications in A-Plus, MCSE and Network Plus. He excels, and maps out a two-year plan to open his own business offering computer support to other small businesses.
Jane Mullikin
We have a group in Indianapolis called Virtual Scavengers. I am hoping there are similiar groups nationwide because the ability to get a computer into the hands of anyone who has thirty bucks means so many more families can join the information age.
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