Computers for Youth Teacher's Assistants Event at Luther Judson Price Middle School May 12, 2007 Today I attended the Computers for Youth organization's Take It Home event at Luther Judson Price Middle School off of Pryor Road in Atlanta. Computers for Youth is an organization based out of New York City. Created by its president Elisabeth Stock and her co-founders in 1999, the organization seeks to empower low-income families by providing them with refurbished computers donated by large corporations that they then pack with educational and essential life-skills and business-skill-building software. You can read more about the CFY organization on their web site at http://www.cfy.org.You can read about the Take it Home program in particular at: http://www.cfy.org/programs-takeithome.html.Here is one important excerpt from their web site:
Lower levels of parental involvement. Research shows that low-income parents are less likely to monitor school assignments, know the names of their children's teachers or attend school functions. Scarce educational resources. Less than half the children living in poverty have any books at all in their homes and only 46% have an Internet connection, compared to 88% of children in families with incomes above $75,000.