2010.11.24: November 24, 2010: Paraguay RPCV Charles Brennick has shipped 25,000 computers since starting InterConnection 10 years ago, working with the Peace Corps, World Concern, World Vision and Microsoft Community Affairs
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2010.11.24: November 24, 2010: Paraguay RPCV Charles Brennick has shipped 25,000 computers since starting InterConnection 10 years ago, working with the Peace Corps, World Concern, World Vision and Microsoft Community Affairs
Paraguay RPCV Charles Brennick has shipped 25,000 computers since starting InterConnection 10 years ago, working with the Peace Corps, World Concern, World Vision and Microsoft Community Affairs
InterConnection Director Charles Brennick said he hopes that people who are considering buying new devices on Black Friday will put their old ones to good use and "turn tech trash into tech treasure."
Paraguay RPCV Charles Brennick has shipped 25,000 computers since starting InterConnection 10 years ago, working with the Peace Corps, World Concern, World Vision and Microsoft Community Affairs
Black Friday: laptop recycle program helps local nonprofits
Posted by Kristi Heim
Your old laptop might be ready to retire, but it can still travel the world on important missions.
It could be used to help Peace Corps volunteers teach AIDS prevention and computer literacy in Namibia, assist World Concern with its disaster response in Haiti, or help ActionAid manage and distribute humanitarian aid after the flood in Pakistan.
Those are some of the uses that Seattle-based nonprofit InterConnection has found for donated laptops and computers. InterConnection works to obtain used laptops from companies and individuals, refurbish them and put them in the hands of people in need.
This year the group is offering free shipping to anyone donating a laptop by mail anywhere in the country.
InterConnection Director Charles Brennick said he hopes that people who are considering buying new devices on Black Friday will put their old ones to good use and "turn tech trash into tech treasure."
Brennick, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, has shipped 25,000 computers since starting the organization 10 years ago, working with the Peace Corps, World Concern, World Vision and Microsoft Community Affairs.
InterConnection also offers inexpensive desktops and laptops to low-income and unemployed individuals and students in the U.S. Its volunteers get training on how to fix computers and install hardware and software.
Donors can get a prepaid label on InterConnection's website here.
InterConnection requests laptops that are functioning and less than five years old. Donors can also drop off their old machines in person at the center, located at 2222 N. Pacific St. in the North Lake Union neighborhood.
Businesses with multiple machines can also call or email to schedule a free pick up: (866) 621-1068.
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When this story was posted in February 2011, this was on the front page of PCOL:
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| How Volunteers Remember Sarge As the Peace Corps' Founding Director Sargent Shriver laid the foundations for the most lasting accomplishment of the Kennedy presidency. Shriver spoke to returned volunteers at the Peace Vigil at Lincoln Memorial in September, 2001 for the Peace Corps 40th. "The challenge I believe is simple - simple to express but difficult to fulfill. That challenge is expressed in these words: PCV's - stay as you are. Be servants of peace. Work at home as you have worked abroad. Humbly, persistently, intelligently. Weep with those who are sorrowful, Care for those who are sick. Serve your wives, serve your husbands, serve your families, serve your neighbors, serve your cities, serve the poor, join others who also serve," said Shriver. "Serve, Serve, Serve. That's the answer, that's the objective, that's the challenge." |
| Support Independent Funding for the Third Goal The Peace Corps has always neglected the third goal, allocating less than 1% of their resources to "bringing the world back home." Senator Dodd addressed this issue in the "Peace Corps for the 21st Century" bill passed by the US Senate and Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter proposed a "Peace Corps Foundation" at no cost to the US government. Both are good approaches but the recent "Comprehensive Assessment Report" didn't address the issue of independent funding for the third goal at all. |
| Memo to Incoming Director Williams PCOL has asked five prominent RPCVs and Staff to write a memo on the most important issues facing the Peace Corps today. Issues raised include the independence of the Peace Corps, political appointments at the agency, revitalizing the five-year rule, lowering the ET rate, empowering volunteers, removing financial barriers to service, increasing the agency's budget, reducing costs, and making the Peace Corps bureaucracy more efficient and responsive. Latest: Greetings from Director Williams |
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