Planted young people now have their own computer

Planted young people now have their own computer

Today was the day when 214 children and young got their own computer. They should have the same opportunities as their peers in IT.
There are about 15,000 children and young people placed outside the home, and they have great difficulty keeping with their education or participate in the social community. That's because they do not have a computer, like most young people, but must share with maybe five others at the destination. Children's Day, Children's Council, the IT industry and IDG Denmark founded the Children's why IT fund to raise money for the children and young so they could get their own computer.

The money donated by the IT industry

400 young people have so far applied for a computer, and we've got the money to be able to provide 213 of the 400 young people their own computer. Initially we have prioritized the youth between 13 and 23 years. And they are either started with an education, or about to get started, says project manager Rikke Engskov Jensen of Children's Day. The money for the computers donated to the fund from the IT industry and the business community, she says. They put young people often find themselves in the situation that they have to share a computer with maybe five other young people, and that means that they may only have twenty minutes to do homework, or twenty minutes to be on Facebook, she says.

Borrower manager's computer

The purpose of computers is to make young people better able to complete their education, and better participate in social communities, says Rikke Engholm Jensen. Today got 16-year-old Prince, who lives on bostedet Coo Holm i Nordsjælland a computer, and he was wildly happy, because he has hitherto had to borrow bostedets leader Pia Nebelong old computer. - A computer means that now he can sit and work in his room, and he can keep in touch with his friends, his old schoolmates and family in Africa, without being disturbed by the fact that next young to use it. It is his own, says Pia Nebelong.