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Written by Project Educate

Dear Friends,

The past four months have presented a number of challenges to our small and young organization. Often enough some of them have seemed insurmountable but with encouragement and support we have persevered.

Volunteers packing computers in the US

Early this summer, we sent the first of a team of volunteers to Zambia. Jamie arrived in Mongu in the first week of July and immediately got to work preparing space that would serve as a community support and resource center. During this time the 200+ computers that had been donated by the Montgomery County Public Schools arrived in Zambia. The process of transporting and clearing the equipment was far from an easy one especially given the fact that the Zambian Parliament had been dissolved but Jamie worked tirelessly and the task was accomplished successfully. Since then, we have begun distributing the equipment to the Mongu community including the Barotse Royal establishment and a partner non-profit. Imwiko Primary and basic school received 25 computers. This is the first time students and teachers at the school have access to computers and we are thrilled to have been a channel through which this was achieved. With this donation we became the first organization, non-governmental or otherwise to introduce the use of computer technology into a basic school in Western Zambia. Lewanika General Hospital is the main hospital in the province. It serves an estimated 200,000. The hospital has a nursing school which up until now had 1 computer for 80 students. The nursing school now has an additional 25 computers bringing the computer student ratio from 1-80 to 1-3.2

Student nurses at Lewanika General Hospital

We would like to thank Fred Mednick at Teachers Without Borders www.teacherswithoutborders.org for his vision and acute understanding of what the issues are. Thank you to Steve Sivious and his wonderful team at the Montgomery County Public School for their support of Teachers Without Borders without which we would not have access to the equipment. A special thank you still to members of the Potomac Rotary Club, who in true Rotary style selflessly volunteered to pack the donated equipment in readiness
for shipping. Thank you to Mike Epeneter and DHL Express for their support in shipping the equipment. A heartfelt thank you goes out to John and Cathy Pelusi for their unwavering support. We could not have achieved half of what we have without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you.

A learner at Imwiko Primary and Basic School

It is not always that we achieve the goals we set out to. Usually the road is paved with obstacles, sometimes we can hardly see the road ahead, other times we stumble and fall but we rise up and march on. This is a road all too familiar especially for non-profit organizations working in Africa. Funding is more often than not lacking and material support not always forthcoming posing major challenges to developmental work. More than 80% of our support comes from individual donors and so we encourage you to support our work by making a financial contribution. We hope that you will take the time to visit
us online and explore other ways in which you can help

Sincerely,

The ProjectEducate Team

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