5 year old Mary learning to spell with the help of  ”Wonder Pets Join the Circus” one of the many educational programs installed on the Macs.

Spelling B

10 year old Victor, from the Open Arms Village, adjusting to using a mouse for the first time.

New to the Mouse

Project Macfrica’s first Macintosh computer lab, located in the Open Arms Village just outside of Eldoret, Kenya.

The Lab

Spending most of my career as an Apple Specialist, I wanted a way to give back.  This lab will give these kids some of the same opportunities I had to learn computers at an early age.

Giving Back

Ian, 8-year-old boy who came to live in the Village with his brother, Kelvin, can barely wait to get inside the lab to try the new Macs.

Anticipation

Joseph is a 13-year-old boy who came to the Village with his brother Abel from the OAI feeding program in the Kambi Teso slum of Eldoret, Kenya.

A New World

Inspiration

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

– Kofi Annan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Annan

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_mandela

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.

– John Dewey - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others”

– Pericles - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles

“Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.”

– Heidi-Hayes Jacobs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Hayes_Jacobs

“The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done”

– Jean Piaget - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget