AUGD: Greetings from San Miguel de Allende Users Group
AUGD: Greetings from San Miguel de Allende Users Group
- Subject: AUGD: Greetings from San Miguel de Allende Users Group
- From: Jon Sievert <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:08:54 -0600
We are bringing the gospel of Apple to this beautiful 17th-century
city and World Heritage site in Central Mexico. With nearly 60 active
members, and growing, we've already made an impact in turning people
from the Dark Side. One of our most important missions is to get Macs
into the hands of poor, bright Mexican students from families with
incomes averaging less than $600 a month (some much less).
I've been especially active with a group called Jovenes Adelante
(Youth Co Forward), which provides 5-year University scholarships to
particularly bright students who come from the poorest of the poor. We
work with another local group called Computadoras Pro Jovenes (www.cpjmex.org
) that has installed more than 1,000 pieces of donated equipment in
more than 100 sites in the campo over the past three years.
Unfortunately, virtually all of their computers are PCs, some of them
so old that they are minimally useful. We don't want our students to
be crippled by being tied to Windoze so our user group has organized
to collect old Macs for the purpose of getting them started off on the
right foot. We've put a few in student hands but we just don't have a
big enough base to draw on yet.
Thus the point of this e-mail. We are asking your Mac user group for
help. If any of your members have older Macs that they have
essentially discarded, we are asking you to consider donating them to
our students. Anything is acceptable that runs OSX. Laptops with
wireless cards are especially prized. Computadoras Pro Jovenes has a
mail service in Texas that can receive the computers and a waiver from
the Mexican government to bring them in without duty.
Please take a look at the Jovenes Adelante web site (www.jovenesadelante.org
) to get a full picture of our program and our current 56 students. We
hope to add at least 20 more for the fall semester. If you would like
to help or have any questions, please contact me directly at email@hidden
. Thanks for listening.
Saludos,
Jon Sievert
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
are free."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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