StreetLITES Africa & India
Reg.Charity number 1114913
"Giving children a fighting chance in a modern world.”
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StreetLITES
Africa 
Reg.Charity
number 1114913
Learning,
Information
Technology,
Empowerment
&
Support
to STREET
children
in AFRICA & INDIA.
Our work is an EMPOWERMENT strategy that uses surplus IT hardware from the UK to provide agencies with the resources to set up IT centres alongside their own street child outreach and educational facilities. We are based in Hull, Yorkshire, U.K. and were established in November 2004.
"Giving children a fighting chance in a modern world.” We all know that some children in Africa and India have a fight for survival on their hands. It’s a daily struggle for life through no fault of their own - poor parents, poor diet and poor prospects. But we have seen first hand what African children can do with even meagre resources – given half a chance.
StreetLITES-Africa has established a relationship with people who are keen to work through I.T. to improve the quality of life to the very poor in Ghana. Through their network of 64 schools, they are endeavouring to reach the poorest of society who are without any hope and, without education, are condemned to destitution. We aim to provide free education and I.T. courses to enable them to fulfill their true potential.We are collecting working but redundant PCs, gathered from individuals, schools and businesses. Our first batch has been shipped to Ghana and our training team went out to Ghana during Easter 2006 on a self-funded trip to set up I.T. training and care packages with suitably trained local teachers in 2 schools.
Our current need is for your decent working unwanted computer systems.......- Systems with a speed of 700+ Mhz are much better than older slower ones as some of the training and education programs need both sound and graphics to work well.
- Any Windows licences that you have from Window 2000 onwards are also needed. We can run Windows 2000 (under licence from the Microsoft Education FreshStart initiative) on machines in schools. The machines will loaded with free software including OpenOffice, TuxType, PhotoFiltre and a selection of free educational maths and English based programs for the children.
- Money is always needed of course! This is an empowerment project so the folks who receive kit are expected to use their money and facilities to install and use the computers we send. Look at the lovely computer suite in Ashaiman that they built, furnished and installed themselves. It costs about £3,000 to send a 20ft container to Ghana including the dockside demurrage fees. Please use the GiftAid logo at the top of this page to donate money.
We would ask you to consider donating any surplus working IT kit that you have, either individual items or complete systems, to give to our children in Ghana & India. Please e-mail us with details of the kit that you wish to donate and where you are too!
Please give these children a fighting chance in a modern world.
| Homepage | Africa? | Our children | Our Supporters | The kit | Who are we? | Easter 2006 visit | Orphan Sponsorship |
| Contact us | Donation places |