An Important Message from Emily

The message below is from former Daily Sentinel reporter Emily Morris. Emily is currently serving in the Peace Corps in Senegal and needs your help. Please read on: Hi everyone, If you’re broke stop reading now and forward this post to anyone with disposable income. As you may or may not know, my main objective here is to provide my middle/high school with computers. Recently I learned World Computer Exchange is sending a shipment of computers to Senegal and if I had a paltry $1,725 I could get 33 computers for my school and community. Now, $1,725 is slightly more than the average annual salary here, but my village has given about $200 and committed to maintenance, transportation, and installing Internet for the student’s use (I’m going to have a serious talk with admin. about porn and online scams). I could expound on how amazing these computers would be for the students, but I’ve been told to keep these blog posts short. Still, most of these students have never used a computer before in their lives. If they can get the computers the school will incorporate computer classes into next year’s curriculum, allowing everyone access. I’m under a bit of a deadline (seriously, I learned about this last minute when I visited a cyber café on a whim). So if you can square it with your conscience skip the church offering this week and click HERE. Please DO NOT forget to designate the donation to “PCV Emily Morris in Senegal.” This is a sustainable project. All maintenance and Internet installation will be handled by the school. Seven teachers on staff will conduct training for the other teachers, who in turn will instruct the students. Frankly, I don't see a downside but feel free to contact me at ecm154@gmail.com if you have any questions. P.S. I could say that I encourage you to send this blog post to other people, but I'll quit dodging the issue - I'm begging you.