Light Blogging

My blogging may be a bit light today and tomorrow

Dave Nix, from GRACE (http://gracegrapevine.org/), will be in Tulsa Tuesday and Wednesday (September 20-21) to share ideas on refurbishing computers with me and HelpingTulsa (http://helpingtulsa.org).

HelpingTulsa frequently has people come down to learn computer refurbishing, and then they set up non profit organizations in their cities, so that used computers, that might otherwise be sent to landfills, can have a few more years of life, helping people who can't otherwise afford a computer.

A Peace Corp volunteer from Nairobi, Kenya (http://helpingtulsa.org/news/kenya.htm), missionary working in Belarus, Russia (http://helpingtulsa.org/news/belarus.htm), and a Navajo from Flagstaff, Arizona (http://helpingtulsa.org/news/726/index.htm) are examples of recent previous visits. This will be the first time when we have someone visit from an established Computer Refurbishing project, and I expect that I will be learning as much from him as he learns from us.

HelpingTulsa's main objective is to provide refurbished computers to schools, churches, and non-profit agencies, Senior Citizen Centers, Tulsa Housing Authority facilities, and HUD Section 8 facilities.

Our variation of the old Chineese proverb about teaching a man to fish is "Fix an old computer for a man and he will have a computer that will fill his needs for a while. Teach a man to fix computers and he will have a computer for the rest of his life, and he can fix computers for his friends and neighbors."