Communications technology skills are now counted among life's basic skills - the ability to use computers has become indispensable to educational, career, social, and cultural advancement. An important part of developing this ability is learning to use technological skills in a meaningful way. Providing opportunities to do so takes access, understanding, interest, and encouragement.

We are under negotiations to acquire a garage seen at the bottom of this page transform it into Community Technology Centre. From this centre we will harness and apply the power of technology and provide a wide variety of opportunities that span education, employment, communication, arts and media. Our community technology will help ensure that people are not deprived of such opportunities due to a lack of personal resources while at the same time fostering community development and connectedness.

A Computer for Kenya Project intends to enhance the capacity for effective use of ICTs for development through the intervention of computers for schools programme in the public education system of Kisumu, Kenya. In bridging the digital divide, the skills gap is more of a barrier than the economic gap to accessing and understanding the uses of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development

The skills gap can be partly addressed by providing computers to schools in developing areas of the world and instructing teachers on how to share knowledge of ICT use with their students. The methods used in Kenya will be modeled on, and in cooperation with, the successful Computer for Schools programme in Canada. The Kenya project is intended as a pilot and therefore will use "Outcome Mapping" processes for continuous evaluation to insure that the lessons learned are derived directly from the experience of the project's participants and can be scaled up for other East African locations.

Goals of the Computers for Kenya project are to:

• Establish a computer lab in Victoria for the acquisition, refurbishing and supply of useful computers;
• Establish a computer lab in the community (Kenya) for training and computer refurbishing;
• Become Wireless Internet Service provider for that region to compliment the existing infrastructure
• Provide instruction to teachers on how to share knowledge of effective use of ICTs with their students;
• Become a portal for ICT business access to East Africa region and centre for ICT innovation
• Take what we learn and work with similar organizations to replicate it elsewhere .