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On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:48:38 GMT, kat6b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Kelly
Tetterton) wrote:

>Does anyone know of a place or places that take computer donations?

I think it would be appropriate here to let people know about a
nationwide project involving the donation of used computer equipment for
a humanitarian cause.

At the end of January, 1996, an organization called Pastors for Peace
will be delivering computers to INFOMED, a project of the National
Center for Medical Science Information in Cuba.  The computers will be
used to link all hospitals, rural clinics and medical schools to an
on-line system designed to aid in health-care delivery.  The United
Nations provided the servers for this project, but end-user terminals
are scarce in Cuba, and any old PC, XT or AT machine will do the job.
They currently have a few dozen terminals in the system, but they need
800 to cover their needs.

Cuba is a poor country, but it has a very good health care system, which
delivers care to the public at no cost.  Unfortunately, the US actively
works to keep the Cuban people from acquiring needed resources.  The
embargo of trade and travel to Cuba has been extended, in recent years,
to attempt to prevent other countries from trading with that nation, as
well.  This aggressive stance by the United States has so far been
unsuccessful in toppling the present government, but it has had the
effect of keeping us as US citizens from knowing very much about our
neighbor to the south.  The US embargo is universally condemned by the
international community.

Pastors for Peace is an action and education project of the
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, which is based in
Minnesota.  Under the leadership of Lucius Walker, Pastors for Peace has
conducted over twenty shipments of material aid to various countries in
Central America, and to Cuba.  In Charlottesville, members of the
Charlottesville Latin America Solidarity Committee have participated in
some of these actions by donating medical supplies and cash, and by
travelling with the Friendshipment Caravans which deliver the aid.  In
the case of Cuban shipments, these actions are taken as a challenge to
the US laws restricting travel to that country.

If you have any old PC computer equipment that you would like to donate,
you could contact me by email, or you could send snailmail to:

	Charlottesville Latin America Solidarity Committee
	P.O. Box 3102
	Charlottesville 22903  

Pastors for Peace is at:

	IFCO - Pastors for Peace
	610 West 28th St.
	Minneapolis, MN 55408



Thanks for your time,
John Dean