About Us
Program Benefits
There are many tangible and intanbible benefits to the PCs for People program. A few of them are listed below.
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Education
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- Provide technology and educational software
to individuals who would otherwise not have this opportunity
- Volunteers learn about technology, community
service and public interaction in a non-traditional setting while having fun
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Environment
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- Reuse almost 70,000 pounds of computer equipment
in the next year and about 150,000 pounds in subsequent years
- Refurbishing a computer saves five to 20 times more energy than recycling
- Potential electronic decommissioning in the
future
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Community
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- Positively impacting almost 15,000 families in
the next five years
- Provide the same opportunities
to low-income families that are taken for granted by higher income households
- Provide an opportunity for individuals and businesses
to give back to their community
- Troubled adolescents utilize PCs for
People’s volunteer program as a positive outlet while gaining real world job skills
- Youth receive a form of constructive entertainment at home
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Poverty
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- Provide a source of learning and hirable skills
to a largely unskilled target market
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