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Aug. 6--HULL -- The Shurgard guy may still be in shock.
Shurgard, the self-storage company, is a contributor in kind to the World Computer Exchange, a Hull-based nonprofit organization that takes used computer equipment and sends it to schools in developing countries. Since 2001, WCE has shipped 14,000 discarded computers to schools in some 30 countries.
Earlier this year, Tim Anderson, WCE's founder and president, was in Columbia, Md., overseeing a donation. 'Some student volunteers had gathered up, oh, 140 computer sets, something like that, and brought them to the Shurgard facility,' Anderson recalls. 'The guy there was just shaking his head. 'They had them duct-taped to the roof of the car!' '
Duct tape and computers: That's WCE, a singular blend of global vision and no-frills execution. It's hard to imagine an organization that's so thoroughly high tech in content and so cheerfully low tech in form. Dedicated to bridging the digital divide, WCE has itself firmly planted on both sides"
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