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Volunteers from the Pittsburgh area gather every week to fix hundreds of donated computers. Computers that still work are refurbished and immediately put into communities throughout Western PA. The computers that do not work are recycled responsibly to eliminate e-Waste.
As of May 18, 2012, Pittsburgh area volunteers have refurbished for re-use...
3,385 Computers
Computer Reach relies on a dedicated and increasing group of volunteers from schools, churches, businesses and community groups to help us embark on strategic missions throughout our local communities every week. The volunteers separate the parts from de-manufactured computers, most often glass, metal and plastic, which are then sent to recyclers. We use a database-driven web site that can immediately print a comprehensive record about volunteers and how many hours they've worked. This is a useful tool for keeping track of community service or teacher-required volunteer hours.3,385 Computers
Please help us get computers into more people’s hands.
Recent posts from the Computer Reach Blog
May 17, 2012 Weekends Are Back! (Permanent link to post) (Go to blog)
Many hands make light work. No way can this woman do the work all by herself!!! Please join us this Saturday, May 19, at our warehouse (214 N. Lexington Street, Pittsburgh 15208) where we will be building and boxing computers for multiple projects to be launched next month. There will be technical and nontechnical things (read more...)
May 15, 2012 The Street Academy in Accra, Ghana: Part 2 (Permanent link to post) (Go to blog)
This is the second and final part of our series about the Street Academy in Accra, Ghana. To read part one, click here. Other Benefits One of the most rewarding and unexpected boons to come out of the laptop program is the degree of peer teaching that happens. Although our children learn very fast, they (read more...)
May 11, 2012 The Street Academy in Accra, Ghana: Part 1 (Permanent link to post) (Go to blog)
We recently had the privilege of helping an academy in Ghana get up-to-date with some new laptops. Here’s the story: Background The Street Academy (www.thestreetacademy.webs.com) received 5 Linux Edubuntu laptops from ComputeReach and its partners at the very end of March 2012. This was possible thanks to the generous donation of our laptop sponsor, Mike (read more...)
May 9, 2012 ComputeReach in India (Permanent link to post) (Go to blog)
This is a picture of ComputeReach giving computers to our staff at an orphanage in Churachandpur, Manipur, India. It’s in the northeast corner of India, east of Bangladesh and just west of Myanmar. From left to right is Don Vice from Lafayette, IN; Leslie Swensen of Churchill, PA; R. Sang, from India; R. Ruata, the superintendent of (read more...)
May 3, 2012 ComputeReach Honored as Jefferson Award Finalist (Permanent link to post) (Go to blog)
On April 19th, ComputeReach had the honor of being a finalist for the 2012 Jefferson Awards for Public Service. The six finalists were presented during the ceremony, and the winner became Pittsburgh’s nominee for the national Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis award. Here’s some more information about the award: In 1972, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Senator Robert Taft (read more...)