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Remember that dream about having internet in every classroom? The truth is that most classrooms don’t even have a computer. And that is where the Rotary Sunrise Club says they can help and they did so today with the donation of 12 computers to 4 schools. We found out more.

Keith Swift Reporting,
Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist Primary School has been without a functioning computer lab since a burglary two years ago.

Marva Bennett, Principal
“They had some eight or ten computers that were stolen and when they were recovered it was just shells. So out of what was there they made two but then they started to giving trouble until eventually when only one was working up until about three weeks ago and then that one gave way too. So when we got the call saying that we were going to be given two, we were glad. When Mr. Moguel recalled and said three, that made it better.”

That call came from Rotary Sunrise which today donated a total of 12 computers to four schools.

Hugo Moguel, Rotary Sunrise
“We did some research and surveyed several schools and came up with these four that are most in need. These schools have fully equipped computer labs except for the computers. The computers have broken down, in some cases have been robbed and vandalized. And so of all the schools that we surveyed, there were about over 2,000 children in elementary schools in Belize City without a single computer or access to a simple computer at their school and that was very alarming to us and so we decided to give three computers to the schools that were ready and eager to use them.”

Marva Bennett,
“We are excited because the children have been asking us when will they continue to get computer classes.”

The other schools to receive computers were Calvary Temple and James Garbutt Seventh Day Adventist Primary Schools and the YMCA. The computers were donated by Rotary International.