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 Computers
and Books
An old friend of Harry V-C who just happens
to own a transport airline that has business in Kenya, has very kindly
agreed to fly goods to Kenya free of charge. This has meant that we
have managed to fly computers and books out to Nairobi for use in
a variety of schools. KST has liaised with the Langalanga
Scholarship Fund - LLSF (another educational charity speciliasing
in awarding scholarships to bright secondary children in the area)
and with Computers for Schools Kenya (a charity based in Nairobi)
to ensure that these computers and books get to the right places.
 Todate this have meant:
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We have taken 50 computers,
over 80 large cardboard boxes of books and a variaty of football
strips out to Kenya
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Two provincial secondary schools (to which
LLSF send its scholars) now offer Computer Studies as an examinable
subject as a direct result of the gift. Computers
for Schools Kenya,
ensures that the receiving organisations
are ready to receive these computers (security, electricity, maintenance
contracts, teachers) before they are sent out.
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15 computers have been
given to another local charities well known to Harry V-C
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5
computers have been placed in LLSF student accommodation for
use as university aids to learning.
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 Essential
accounting software used by the university has also provided
by LLSF
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Thousands of reading books have been distributed
to the primary schools with libraries that KST have already built
(or are currently building). It is hard to comprehend how much
excitement these books generate, but just imagine giving a class
of British primary school kids a library full of the top 100 films
and you come somewhere close to understanding.
We will continue to work on the transfer
of such gifts will throughout 2007.
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