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..."Rosa,
a high school senior, was born without arms. Her school will not let
her put the keyboard and mouse on the floor. She now has a
computer at home with the mouse and keyboard on the floor. The next
step is to track down voice recognition software in Spanish for her."
..."On the way to one of our schools I had
to ford a river. The water was above
the level of the car door jam. The current was strong. I asked the
principal,
Isabel, how she got to school. She laughed and showed me a pair
of long shorts drying in the sun. She changed into those shorts, held her
shoes and clothes over her head and walked across!"
..."Rosaura is a college scholarship recipient.
Rosaura's mother has a third
grade education and her dad made it to the fourth grade. They have no
indoor plumbing. Yet, Rosaura is maintaining a better than 9.0 grade
point average on a scale of ten. She brings the laptop we gave her to
school every day."
...This teacher's English may not be perfect but her
message is right on:
"I'm very grateful with
you ... when I show the encyclopedia they want to see
everything, all my
kids want to use it, and this days they arrive very early in
the mornings
... now they have the technology and the world in their hands,
the donations
it's going to change
and opend their mind and their vision to
their future, now they're
have more options to do in their lives." Read
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CPJ provides equipment to:

• schools serving kindergarten through grade 8, mostly in rural areas,
• kids
with physical or mental limitations that make regular school attendance
difficult or impossible, and
•
university scholarship recipients from poor families.
The hardware
is critical, the software is important, but the key to this effort is the
ongoing hands-on coaching by mentors. |