{"id":34935,"date":"2012-02-08T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=34935"},"modified":"2012-02-08T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:43:15","slug":"computer-jackpot-for-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=34935","title":{"rendered":"Computer jackpot for Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone\u2019s Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,\u00a0Tamba Mansa Ngegba, has expressed interest on behalf of his country for a computer charity organisation to work in Sierra Leone.\u00a0 He visited <strong><em>Computers 4 Africa<\/em><\/strong>, a charity social enterprise that has provided over 40,000 computers to sixteen different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of providing opportunities for the poor and those otherwise excluded from access to ICT education and training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy High Commissioner was invited by the charity to discuss how <strong><em>Computers 4 Africa<\/em><\/strong> could work into Sierra Leone and what opportunities there are for working together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit, the Deputy High Commissioner joined the team on a tour of their operation viewing cleaning, data wiping and technical teams as they worked on donated computers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34938\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/David-West-CEO-Computers-4-Africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34938\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34938\" title=\"David West, CEO Computers 4 Africa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/David-West-CEO-Computers-4-Africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David West, CEO Computers 4 Africa<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">David West, Chief Executive Officer of <strong><em>Computers 4 Africa<\/em><\/strong>, said: \u201cwe are excited at the prospect of working with the Sierra Leone Education Ministry and their approved partners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The computers that <strong><em>Computers 4 Africa<\/em><\/strong> provides give life changing education opportunities to hundreds of thousands of children each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Computers 4 Africa<\/em><\/strong> transforms communities across Africa, by accepting working redundant PC\u2019s and IT equipment from individuals, corporate and organisations in\u00a0 the UK; once securely data wiped, the computers are then shipped out to schools, colleges, libraries, clinics and specific projects in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone\u2019s Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,\u00a0Tamba Mansa Ngegba, has expressed interest on behalf of his country for a computer charity organisation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,7154,7006,7010,1],"tags":[11301,11302,11303,2880],"class_list":["post-34935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-ict-for-development","category-ict-in-education","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-computers-4-africa","tag-computers4africa","tag-david-west","tag-tamba-mansa-ngegba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}