Yesterday we went out to Project Abraham on the other side of town and installed a lab of 8 computers, plus one computer for the secretary of the church. It was a pretty impressive church because they have been very resourceful–almost everything they’ve built is with donated materials–like they found someone who was throwing away wood from shipping crates, and they got laborers (labor is much cheaper than materials in costa rica) to pull the nails and carpet and whatnot off the wood to build the framing for the building, and the glass is all donated. And they aren’t out there building on credit, they only build when the money and materials come in and they have a long term plan to build in phases.
We had a few broken machines, so for the 9 computers to install, we brought along 15 so we’d have some extra to raid for parts if needed. We had to break out a hard drive and network card from one of them, and a couple of the monitors were damaged in shipping (though if you saw the way things were shipped, you’d actually be surprised how few were damaged!