They decided,
therefore, to replace the old computers with newer, more modern
and reliable equipment
Taking advantage of this opportunity the Foundation proposed to open a new program
named "A computer for Janko the Musician". The old computers which in the modern
firms with extensive informatic services should be of little use, certainly can
give a lot of profit and enjoyment to the young people in the countryside, to
the people who often have never seen a real computer, not to speak about the
knowledge of operating it. In order to take a share in the efforts directed towards
changing, at least in part, that situation, the Foundation Communication Without
Barriers, as a charity organization with a good knowledge of the peoples' needs,
engaged itself in passing the computer equipment on into the hands worth getting
it.
Two lines of activity have been opened by the Foundation to realize this programme:
we made efforts to organize new informatic laboratories in the country primary
schools by supplying them with the computers gained from outside donors;
we asked the children aged 8-12, especially from rural schools, to enter a literary
contest and to submit in writing to the Foundation's address through January
2000 their reflections and conclusions concerning the approaching new Millennium.
The contestants were free to choose between the two subjects: 1. If I had a computer;
2. Which dream could I realize with the aid of the school of the third millenium.
The most interesting works were awarded with a computer equipment which was forwarded
to underequipped country schools in various regions of Poland. Personal awards
(one computer for the author and another for his school) were given to:
Karolina Hasiak, the sixth form of the Primary School in Droztowice;
Marcin Szczech, the eighth form of the Primary School in Osiek Łużycki.
The programme A computer for Janko the Musician was ended in the first quarter
of 2002.
The
action Gigajoy
Under
the patronage of the Foundation Communication Without
Barriers the action Gigajoy promoted e-mailing
of season's greeting cards in December 2001.
A
press conference held at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw
on February 20, 2002, served to present a résumé
of the December action. It was attended by Mrs.
Jolanta
Kwaśniewska and by representatives of the firms
engaged in the initiating move, such as Intel,
Microsoft, Optimus, RMF FM and Interia. The entire
profit was used to purchase computers for the Family
Child's Homes. Owing to the joint action of so
many sponsors, the Foundation Communication Without
Barriers could afford to donate computers to 70
Family Child's Homes throughout Poland. In addition,
within the framework of the earlier realized programme
A computer for Janko the Musician, it was able
to found informatic laboratories in 12 small country
primary schools.
We hope that a lot of good has been done by the computers donated in both actions.
Perhaps they also helped to disclose the hitherto unnoticed gifts and skills
of at least some young people.
The
following countryside primary (PS) and
other schools obtained computer sets from
the Foundation and opened the informatic
laboratories:
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Sienkiewicz Memorial PS Group in
Siciny
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Mikołaj
Kopernik PS in Jasienna-Korzenna
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PS
in Drołtowice and PS in Osiek Lużycki
(each a computer + printer set
as awards in the literary contest "If
I had a computer"
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Malinowski Memorial PS Group
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Mikołaj
Kopernik Memorial PS in Czasław
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PS
in Barcice Special Care Educational
Centre in Słupsk (a laboratory
with 8 computer sets and with a
connection to the Internet)
Special Care Educational Centre
in Stemplew (a laboratory with
10 computer sets and with a connection
to the Internet)
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Integration
Schools Group in Kraków (a laboratory
with 10 computer units and with
a connection to the Internet)
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