Saturday, November 17, 2007

Kids Caring 4 Kids

Today I walked into the Wheaton Post Office, to get some packages I was expecting. I'm putting together a computer museum, and gathering some old computers that I got from Ebay. It is a nonprofit venture,and the purpose is to help people understand the history of computers. Another purpose is to help people who are trying to retrieve a file that may be locked up on an old computer disk, in an ancient format.
Simultaneously I am also developing this museum in 3D, so that kids and adults can learn about and experience new computers even if they don't have access to that specific computer.

So I go into the post office, and a guy is standing there going through his mail just like me, and wearing a World Vision teeshirt (www.worldvision.org). We ended up getting into a conversation and I discovered that his thirteen year old daughter also cares about kids quite literally. She started an organization called Kids Caring 4 Kids (www.kidscaring4kids.org). It was a fascinating conversation, and it seems that there are a number of opportunities for convergence, with other organizations that I've been helping recently, such as One Laptop per Child and others.