Pay It Forward

What a fun day we had. Majeed and I met up with Greg Tehven a former student of University of Minnesota and member of the Student Today Leaders Forever group. Greg visited Ghana in January and developed a passion for Ghana on his trip. He got the chance to visit with the people, eat the foods and experience first hand the culture of Ghanaians.
He heard about the computers to Ghana project and jumped at the opportunity to help out.



Greg is also a leader with the Pay It Forward group; this group organizes high school students and plan service projects accross different states. During my conversation with Greg, he mentioned that he could get his group to come help me out if I needed to. That was a great idea, the students will learn how the services they provide here will impact lives thousands of miles away.


Concordia College donated more computers, about 120 pcs which is about 240 units of monitors and towers. There is no way I was going to be able to move that myself and so I needed the help. We scheduled a day and I got Kevin who goes to Bethel Evangelical Free Church to donate his truck to help out.

What a fun day, we moved all 240 units in less than two and a half hours. I told the kids about the benefits of serving and touching the lives of people they may never meet. All in all, we had fun moving the computers.
To help out, please keep reading and send a laptop or donation to the address listed below. All donations are tax deductible.

Thanks for reading. I hope you can help. Thanks Greg for your passion to serve.

Can I help?

Yes You Can. We need your help.

How?
I just talked to Concordia and they are giving me more computers, 120 computers to be exact so there is a lot of work to be done. We need both financial and volunteer help.
The computers will have to be put on pallets, banded and shrink wrapped and we need money to ship them .

To help financially and anything helps, it will cost about $80 to ship one computer, you can help ship one or ship as many as you want. Write a tax deductible check to

The Ghana Computer Project
Quantum Connections
c/o Rowland Joiner
114 Jefferson St. S
Wadena MN 56482
Phone: 320-594-7196

To volunteer your time, please email ardayfio@gmail.com and when we are ready to get some work done, you will be contacted. We appreciate your thinking about this.

Together we can make a huge difference in the lives of many African children and the continent as a whole. We can't do it without you so please act now. Your contribution today will benefit a nation tomorrow.

Computers arrive in Ghana. Yay!!

The computers have finally arrived and I have pictures to prove that they did, for those who were wondering what happened to them. The computers donated by Concordia College, software donated by Microsoft, shipping donated by books for Africa and the people of Fargo-Moorhead finally reached the shores of Ghana West Africa.

50 computers total were shipped, 24 were delivered to Achimota School, my alma mater; 3 to the University of Ghana for their help with the shipping and the rest to Methodist Girls Secondary School in Mamfe.

The pictures from Achimota School show students and my classmates David Asiedu & Gyebi Mensah being presented with the computers and software. In Mamfe, it was a whole village affair. They were presented during a yearly festival – very colorful. Present were the chiefs and elders of the village.

I hope these will go a really long way to help these two establishments. Ghana’s primary export is Cocoa; we have to find other ways of improving our economy. I am hoping that with a wide spread use of technology that we will start making some head way.

How awesome will it be if all secondary schools in Ghana have computers and learn how to use them, program them and create software products? The sky will be the limit.

I am looking for partners with similar interests, if you want to do such a thing for your country, I will be more than willing to share my contacts at various businesses for you contact and get that process started for your school. Together we will make a difference. It is hard work but it definitely brings a smile on your face when you see pictures like these and you think about the impact that will have on students who really want to learn and are have curious minds.

Thanks again to Meghann Wilkinson Poku, Babs Coler, Trent Niemeier, Ben Martin, Alan Svangstu, Peter Larson, Prince Amattoe. You guys did great. Thanks Microsoft - Looking forward to future partnerships, Concordia College, Books for Africa, Quantum Connections.

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