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Loreto Girl's School in Mwanza, Tanzania
  • The computer project to the Loreto School in Mwanza, Tanzania was an effort by Folkers Rojas, a junior in Nuclear Engineering, and Phillip Laker-Ojok, a sophomore in Chemical Engineering, to help Loreto recover from the theft of all six of their computers in early 2006. Starting in the fall of 2006, Folkers and Phillip started to gather resources and support in the form of grants and computer donations for the project. On November 26th 2006 we delivered six computers and monitors to the Boston docks for shipment to Kampala, Uganda. The computers served as tools for educating tomorrow's future.
  • Key Individuals
    • Folkers Rojas
    • Phillip Laker-Ojok
  • Conclusion:
    • The computers made it to Uganda and were shipped across Lake Victoria to their final destination in Mwanza, Tanzania.
  • Goal
    • To promote computer literacy in Africa.
  • This project could not have been accomplished without the assistance of the following individuals and groups
    • Dean Larry Benedict
    • Sister Pauline Boase
    • Prof. Jim Elliot
    • Louis Graham
    • Amanda Gulbis
    • Mr. Tomas Makena
    • Dean Julie Norman
    • Mr. Ken Stone
    • Prof. Jack Wisdom
    • Sally Susnowitz