Ancaster News
Posted by Lee Kirkby
ANCASTER BEGINS LAPTOP DISTRIBUTION
Through an arrangement with Xerox Canada, the Rotary Club of Ancaster is giving away over 100 top quality laptop computers to local charitable organizations throughout the Hamilton community. Some of these units will be used in after school programs in inner city schools so students who would normally not have computers to use at home will be able to do so. Others will go to graduating grade eight students so that they will have a computer to use when they go to high school in the fall. Local charities will use the computers to upgrade their office capabilities from worn out old, almost antique equipment. A program for working with youth at risk for becoming involved with the legal system will use a group of computers to help the students improve their school performance..................
The donation of these computers is part of a program organized with Xerox where they clean and donate their computers as part of their equipment refresh plan in return for the Ancaster Rotary Club ensuring that all of the equipment is routed to worthwhile charitable use. A partner in the program,
Greenbyte in Hamilton (a division of the St. Leonard’s Society who work with people being transitioned out of incarceration), makes sure that every laptop is fully configured with a current copy of Office, updated operating software and all windows updates.
The first 38 computers out of the approximately one hundred to be available are beginning to be distributed this week.