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Computers for the World
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Alan Pratt presents members of the C4W Gambia team with a check for $1,000 from the World Community Service Committee.
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Alan Pratt introduced Dick Ryan of the Emerald City Rotary Club, who will accompany the next wave of students and Rotarians on a project for Computers for the World (C4W). He introduced three students from Garfield High who explained the next trip takes them to Gambia, small country on the West Coast of Africa. Ryan, who had volunteered to help put this project together, now finds himself as “part of the team leaving in mid-month. If you’d told me this is what I’d be doing in February 2002, I’d have been speechless!”
Laura Canter, a student leader for C4W, along with sophomores Kathleen Compton and Jennifer LaCoste, will join a total of 12 people to deliver computers that have been refurbished by students at Garfield High School. “Computers for the World has already shipped the computers by container to Gambia, and our journey begins February 16. We will install two computer labs at two high schools and make connections with Rotary Clubs in Gambia.” The group has to raise their own funds, including airfare. Alan Pratt returned to the microphone to issue a check for $1,000 on behalf of the BBRC’s World Community Service Committee, in support of this District project.
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