Network Verde is proud to announce our inaugural project as a nonprofit partnership to provide computers for children and communities in rural Guatemala. Network Verde's mission is to collect donated computers, refurbish them, and make them available to serve the educational needs of indigenous Mayan communities. Over 500 computers have already been placed in Guatemala and are now helping to educate more than 5000 students in 30 schools!
Download video clips of the Partners in Solidarity video as well as footage of our recent trip to Quetzaltenango:
Partners in Solidarity-Intro (18Mb)
Partners in Solidarity-Full (86Mb)
Teachers and tech skills (11Mb)
Meeting with Maria (10Mb)
Note: these files are somewhat large. For better performance you may wish to right-click on the links above and choose to save the files to your hard drive before viewing.
This project targets more than 1000 rural schools in Guatemala. Each school has requested 50 computers. We need your help to collect enough Pentium 3 (or newer) generation PCs and/or G4 and G5 Macintosh desktops. There is also a great need for laptops for school support staff such as superintendents, teachers and community leaders who support the computer labs. In addition to the computers, Network Verde will work to provide internet connectivity to as many of these schools as possible, in order to do our part towards bridging the digital divide that threatens to exclude those in developing countries from the emerging knowledge-based global economy.
WHO WE ARE!
Network Verde is a collaborative venture of New World Brands (NWBD:OB), a publicly traded telecom business headquartered in Eugene, Oregon; NextStep Recycling (NSR), a nonprofit electronics and computer refurbishing/recycling business also based in Eugene; NSR's project, Partners in Solidarity (PS), a group of dedicated volunteers working in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala; and INEPAS, an international NGO working to empower impoverished rural communities in Quetzaltenango.
New World Brands
www.nwbtechnologies.com
Sulwyn Sparks, Project Coordinator
sulwyn.sparks@nwbnetworks.com
Tracy Habecker, Media Contact
541 868 2912
thabecker@nwbnetworks.com
NEXTSTEP RECYCLING AND PARTNERS IN SOLIDARITY
www.nextsteprecycling.org
www.partnersinsolidarity.com
Enid Lefton, Procurement Sales Manager
541 686 2366x118
enid@nextsteprecycling.org
INEPAS
www.inepas.org
Maria Antonieta Ixcoteyac Velásquez
15a Avenida 4-59 Zona 1
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, C.A.
(00502) 77 65 13 08
info@inepas.org
