Global Compassion & Computers

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Global Compassion is an organization based out of Cameroon, a small country about the size of Texas between Nigeria and the Central African Republic. Boko Haram has occupied much of the northern part of Cameroon, giving the founder, Clement Awanfe Ngueto, more motivation to create this organization. Global Compassion wants to help kids, giving them a better chance at success and to inoculate them against organizations such as ISIS or Boko Haram.
When you hear of voluntary recruits/members of these terrorist organizations, you hear the story of a person without hope who was approached by said terrorist organization(s) and was given hope. This hope was the kind of hope that said: "Kill anybody who isn't our religion, and you'll have a good life." Global Compassion wants to inoculate kids against that. 
I have been recruited as project co-manager along with a peer who lives half way across the world. Both of our parents have helped the organization before, and at the time it seemed like a one-off thing. So this begs the question, why were we brought into this?
My colleague and I are smack dab in the middle of the ages that Boko Haram forcibly takes to join their ranks. We are managing a project that will give kids education, and all of this sends a message to terrorist organizations. We are actively showing that young people care and that people around the world care.
Global Compassion is building a computer lab for students in Santchou, Cameroon. It will mostly be used by secondary school students, but there will be a few elementary schoolers that utilize the facilities. This computer lab isn't going to be like what I, a student in Tokyo, am used to. The computers are most likely going to be second hand or refurbished. That being said, a computer is a portal to the world, no matter how old and slow.
A small investment on our part pays huge dividends for them. That statement makes me sound like a commercial for the ASPCA, but it's true. We're trying to collect $7,040. That's $7,040 for tables, chairs, computers, a router, cables, etc. There's more than $7,040 worth of electronics and electronic equipment in one classroom at ASIJ when there are students in said classroom. There's more than $7,040 worth in my Dad's home office.  My family has iPads and MacBooks and TVs, just as many expat families in Japan and all over the world have. We're used to doing homework on the computer and talking to our friends on the computer. We all take technology for granted, when there are kids in the world who have never seen, much less used a computer.