Granville County (North Carolina) Habitat for Humanity ReStore Partners with Local Entrepreneur to Get Computers to Local Students
Imagine you’re a young student getting your homework assignment and thinking, 'I'm not sure that I'll be able to get it done.' That's the thought of a student who doesn't have a computer at home and, in turn, has to share time with other students that all head to a local library and sign up to get in line to use the computers for 30 minutes at a time. But a local entrepreneur named Kirk Royster is changing all of this.
Kirk, owner and operator of Boris Kirk LLC, is currently focusing primarily on providing needy students at West Oxford Elementary School and Stovall-Shaw Elementary School with a computer and computer peripherals of their own. Boris Kirk LLC also has plans to help students in Granville, Vance and Wake Counties in North Carolina and Mecklenburg County in Virginia. Needy families in these areas should send him their information; student name(s), county and school.
Kirk is accepting donations of laptops and desktops (Macintosh or Windows), monitors, printers and accessories, especially WiFi ready accessories. That's basically anything that Middle School students need to complete their homework assignments and projects. Once in possession of these new, used or gently worn supplies, Kirk cleans them, upgrades them, adds appropriate software to them, and makes them as internet ready as possible. He also wipes the hard drives so that the original owners’ information is completely deleted. Kirk prefers laptops so that the students can take them to school and to the library.
Boris Kirk LLC, which is a for-profit entity, is also accepting financial donations to aid in preparing computers for delivery though these donations are not tax deductible.
Granville County Habitat for Humanity (GCHFH) is a proud partner of this wonderful endeavor. The GCHFH ReStore will now accept laptops and desktop hard drives as donations, which we will pass on to Kirk Royster to use in preparing computers for delivery. The ReStore already accepts monitors, keyboards, printers, and accessories.
"GCHFH thanks Kirk for approaching us with the idea of partnering with his project", says GCHFH Executive Director Mark Prokop. "Together we are not only acting as a driving force in helping to educate our local children but we are also keeping more computers that would normally be thrown away out of the local landfills. This is truly a win-win situation."
If anyone has any questions about the Computer Recycling Project, please contact Kirk Royster at BorisKirkLLC@GMail.com or GCHFH Executive Director Mark Prokop or ReStore Administrator at 919.693.5694 or visit www.granvillecountyhfh.org.
About Granville County Habitat for Humanity - Granville County Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.
15 December 2009
Mark Prokop
