C A F E

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C A F E
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What is CAFÉ?
Computer Access For Everyone is an
international project of participating District
5950 Rotary Clubs.
CAFÉ provides computers to Schools and Medical
facilities in areas that need but cannot afford
such equipment.
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How does CAFÉ do that?
CAFÉ collects late model PCs and peripheral
equipment from individuals and organizations.
CAFÉ then prepares those PCs with the same
operating system and programs so that one PC will
look and respond like the next PC.
CAFÉ then ships those PCs to developing
countries or needful areas of the U.S.
CAFÉ frequently sends a team of
teacher/technicians to those areas where they can
help install and train personnel how to use their
newly acquired equipment.
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Why does CAFÉ do it that way?
Prior to the formation of CAFÉ, articles had been
written about well intentioned organizations who
collected used computers and sent them to
developing countries.
IBM, Apple, Atari and a variety of odd units were
collected and sent as is.
The recipients attempted to make use of their
gift but if they did get one unit working, they
frequently had to start over trying to get the
dissimilar next PC working.
These people, with little or no micro processing
knowledge, frequently gave up and the gift just
sat or got discarded.
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Where has CAFÉ been?
Since its beginning in 2000, CAFÉ has supplied
PCs to
Belize
Tanzania
Eluthera
Guatemala
Madagascar
Liberia
Nigeria
Cameroon
And have served locations in the U.S. as well.
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Tanzania
Tanzania was CAFÉs first project in 2001.
50 PCs were sent to the Mwangaza teachers
training center in Arusha in September of 2001.
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install PCs, 3 to 5, in secondary schools
throughout the region.
School teachers, some of whom had never seen a
PC, were taught how to use and teach their
students computer skills.
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PCs were collected, prepared and boxed for
shipment.
PCs were all prepared with the same Microsoft
operating system and programs.
Each PC was boxed.
Clothing was used as packing so that every inch
of valuable space would be taken by useable items.
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Boxes are shipped to Tanzania
Boxes are stacked on pallets.
Pallets are placed in shipping containers.
Containers travel by rail and freighter, often
taking 3 to 5 Months to reach their destination.
The 2001 Tanzania shipment was made possible due
to the generosity of Global Health Ministries.
GHM sends medical supplies to this country.
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Arusha Tanzania
The container reaches the Mwangaza Center over
three months later.
The CAFÉ team arrives.
The PCs are checked to make sure they made the
journey unharmed.
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The CAFÉ team meets with - and addresses the
Rotary Club of Arusha.
When planning and developing a project in a
developing country, CAFÉ will partner with a
local Rotary Club.
Local Rotary Clubs sometimes help determine which
facilities in their area are in need of computers.
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Local Rotary Clubs sometimes provide lodging
and/or meals to CAFÉ team members.
Local Rotary Clubs sometimes provide much needed
transportation to and from the facilities being
served.
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Schools receive computers
Three to five boxed PCs are placed atop a
landrover.
The team and PCs must travel over some of the
worst roads imaginable.
Amazingly most of the PCs arrive at the very
remote school safely despite the looks of their
boxes.
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Teaching the teachers
Teachers are taught the fundamentals of using a
PC and how to use Microsoft WORD Excel.
Because of the schools very remote location,
teachers and their families live on campus.
Other than pictures - some teachers had never
seen a PC before the CAFÉ units arrived at their
school.
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Madagascar
In 2005 CAFÉ began providing PCs to medical as
well as educational facilities. Madagascar was
CAFÉs first such project.
SALFA is a health department in Antananarivo
Madagascar where CAFE PCs arrived in the fall of
2005 for use in the department headquarters,
hospitals remote clinic locations throughout
Madagascar.
Three CAFÉ team members journeyed to this Island
to help install the PCs and set up a network at
the SALFA headquarters in Antananarivo.
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Rotary Club of Antananarivo
The CAFÉ team meets and addresses the Rotary
Club. The Antananarivo Club acknowledges receipt
of the gift of computers.
The CAFÉ team and Rotary members listen to
dignitaries make presentations.
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A school for the deaf receives PCs
CAFÉ team members try their best to use their
limited signing skills with students.
With CAFÉ PCs and special software, deaf
students can now learn to speak.
This student can SEE his voice displayed as he
speaks into the microphone.
He sees what his voice sounds like AND what it
should sound like.
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Clinics receive PCs
Remote clinics with doctors as young as 23 will
use their new CAFÉ PC for keeping Inventory as
well as patient records. As there is no means of
transmitting data to SALFA, a delivery system has
been set up to transport a floppy disk from one
location to another, sometimes with many stops in
between.
Most often CAFÉ must provide a generator to
provide the power that will run the donated PC.
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This young doctor is the only physician at this
remote clinic. When she leaves for her home three
blocks away, a night watchman comes running to
get her if one of the over-night patients should
need her.
This is a typical room in a clinic where patients
can recover.
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Hospitals receive PCs
Hospitals struggle to maintain enough room and
usable equipment for their facilities.
At times even gurneys must be used as hospital
beds.
The operating Room has equipment that frequently
fails.
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CAFÉ donates PCs to these facilities so they can

• Perform accounting functions

• Keep Patient Records

• Keep track of Inventory

• Provide for specialized training

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Where does CAFÉ go from here?
Our projects for 2007 include

• 34 PCs and a server to the Phebe Hospital
  system in Liberia.

• 100 PCs to Mwangaza Secondary Education in
  Arusha Tanzania.

• 100 PCs to the Selian Hospital system in Arusha
  Tanzania.

• 30 PCs for schools in Slovakia.

• 100 PCs for schools and medical facilities in
  Papua New Guinea.

• PCs to facilities in India, Kenya Malawi as
  well.

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To continue to function - CAFÉ relies on

• Financial support from Rotary Clubs, other
  organizations and individuals like YOU.

• Working PC's Laptops (Pentium 4 or better
  with 10 gig or more of storage and at least 256
  meg of RAM)

• Monitors, Keyboards and Mice

• Technical assistance installing software and
  preparing PC's for shipment

• Technicians and Instructors willing to spend one
  to three weeks in remote areas of a developing
  country

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If you or your Rotary Club have the means to
assist and want to help CAFÉ make a difference,
please contact us
Café_at_d-hall.com
And- visit our web site
www.rotarycafe.org
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