SPECIAL AZ StRUT NEWSLETTER #DIW2020 🔊

Published: Wed, 10/07/20

SPECIAL #DIW2020 NEWSLETTER

Digital Inclusion Week is October 5-9, 2020

OUR DIW2020 EVENTS

Monday 10/5/20

2:30 – 3:30 MST
Digital Inclusion Chat and Refurb-athon Wrap Up: Students helping other students with Tom Mehlert, Executive Director of AZ StRUT

Check our Facebook page for recording.

Tuesday 10/6/20 Learn about us.

Every Tuesday at AZ StRUT: The inside and outside scoop

Check our Facebook page showing a typical Tuesday at AZ StRUT.

Wednesday 10/7/20

AZ StRUT School Donation interview: Sharing our impact

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Share our story.

Thursday 10/8/20

Our School partners and Techie Labs

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Tell your friends.

Friday 10/9/20

New Solutions for COIVD: Configuration at a Distance.

Learn about how volunteers from Boeing have come to our aid.

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Support us. Donate equipment.

OUR 2020 IMPACT so far

4,292 refurbished computer devices
valued at $541,991
distributed to Arizona schools, Title 1 students, and non-profits.

Dear AZ StRUT,

I need a computer to do my online classes. Since March I have been sharing our one home computer with my older sister. She’s a junior in high school. She’s not so great at sharing. So sometimes I use my Dad’s phone to zoom with my teacher and classmates. It’s hard to see them on such a small screen and I can’t see much of what my teacher shares. And my younger brother needs to zoom at the same time. We asked our school for another computer. They said they are giving computers to the families without any computers first. I was surprised to hear that some of my friends don’t have even one computer at home. I go to Andersen High School.

Dear AZ StRUT,

Our rural school needs 150 laptops with cameras for our families who don’t have home computers. We have been making photocopied packets for them. Twice a week, families come to the school to pick up and drop off the finished packets. Some of our parents haven’t been able to get to school each week. Our photocopy machine has broken several times. We are raising money to pay for internet for our families since they can’t go to the library for free internet anymore. We already gave away the computers we had in our school. Thank you for your help.

Dear AZ StRUT,

We are a non-profit, mental health provider for children and teens. We have experienced a dramatic increase in demand. We need to offer counseling sessions through the internet. Can we get 20 laptops for our therapists to use and/or offer to their clients? Thank you for considering our request.

*If we had received letters from our recipients, they would sound like these.

AZ StRUT staff two full-time and four part time employees

OUR DREAM

Including everyone in our digital world

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

#digitalequitynow

You can help include everyone by:

Following us

Donating equipment

Supporting us financially

Telling your friends and family about us

THANK YOU