Computers for Ghana

On her trip to Ghana, Revd. Emma will be taking with her a suite of 15 computers provided by St. Mary’s and St. Peter’s Primary School and refurbished by members of the church to equip two schools; Sudbury Preparatory Junior Secondary School and Montessori Nursery and Primary School.

In May a team of people of all ages from church refurbished the laptops which involved a thorough clean, securely wiping the hard drives and installing a new operating system so they are ready for use. Finally all the computers were bubble wrapped ready for shipping. It was a long day, beginning at 10am and the last of us left at 7pm, but the enthusiasm and effort of all the volunteers, both adults and children, made it a fantastic experience.

We look forward to seeing more pictures and finding out how they are used when Emma returns from her trip!

All the computers have been repaired and had Edubuntu OS installed.

Repairing and changing hard drives, memory etc.

The computer wrapping team in full swing!

All the computers, keyboards, monitors and stands wrapped and ready to be boxed.

The van is loaded after the boxes are packed.

The final background installed on the machines before packing.

For those of a more technical persuasion i have included the technical specs of the machines below.

Processor: Pentium 4 2.6 ghz RAM: 2gb Harddrives: 60gb Operating System: Edubuntu 14.04 LTS.