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Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural Turkey We recently traveled thousands of kilometers on a tour of Turkey, distributing computers, schoolbooks and encyclopedias that we collected. One school where we distributed two of the computers and eight boxes of books is an area school that takes in boys from 69 different villages and is a regional school center. They have a newly built school building but sadly lack in educational resources. We hope to be able to regularly send them assistance and aid and they have asked us recently to help them to get their computer lab set up, as the only two computers they have were donated by us on our recent journey. Additionally, we were greeted very warmly at the Mayor’s office in Harran, and met the top gendarme and also the top Police officers there as well. We were surprised to see our photo and also our newsletter (with newspaper coverage of our last trip to Harran) on display in a glass case at the entrance of the building that houses the Mayor’s office. We gave two computers and five other boxes of books to a school and were “official guests” again of the mayor and the city at the only hotel in Harran. We then continued to Adiyamin a small town in SE Turkey area. We have a journalist friend there who did an interview and took pictures of us doing school programs and donating a computer to a poor school who had sent us a request letter. We also know the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and we stay at his hotel and all our needs are taken care of while there. He also wants us to open a branch there and we may be able to do more humanitarian aid projects or educational programs with his help in that city.
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