The Children's Computer Center Ltd. was founded by Neil Horgan in November of 1998. Neil himself was disabled in an accident while at work. He found that after being a truck mechqanic for 30+ years he was unable to just sit around doing nothing, and most nights he found that he could not sleep due to his injury.

 Neil knew that there must be a lot of people that had the same problem. His idea was to start a program that could also help some of the disabled people in the area.

 A lot has happened since November 1998:

 The Children's Computer Center has been able to donate more than 2,000 computers to children of less fortunate homes and seniors that want to further their education but do not have the funds to purchase a computer. Neil feels that this is only a stepping stone to his dream.

 We have been able to erect a 12' X 24' Workshop School House with the grants and donations received from people that want to help us with our mission. Without the help of these people we would not be able to continue helping the ones that we do. We want to thank the people that have made this possable. The donors and people that helped us erect the building for their labor and continued support. 

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"I myself am disabled and find the work for the center a way for me to forget my own problems. My wife Tammy also likes to help me in the workshop. She likes to install the operating systems in the computers. She has also helped out by rebuilding some of the computers by herself. For me it seems strange doing this work because all of my life I was a truck mechanic and at the time of my accident I was also going to Law School."

Neil Horgan, founder of The Children's Computer Center Ltd.

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STORIES:

 When we first started a disabled person was refered to me by one of his teachers. He was failing all of his classes because no one could read his writing. Since he obtained his computer I have been told that he is doing very well in his classes. He is now taking Law classes and the teachers believe that he will graduate with excellent grades. Maby he will be able to attain his law degree. It will make me happy to see him graduate, though I could not. (See quote above).

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 I went to a child's home to set up a computer for him. I found that the child had no desk but he was happy to put the monitor on top of his dresser and the keyboard in a drawer. It really hurt me to see this small child so happy to have a computer, you would think that he had just received the greatest gift of all. I went home and sat down, but no matter what I did Icould only see this child as happy as could be. It did not take me long to decide that he had to have a desk, so my wife Tammy and I  took my desk apart and gave it to him. When it was set up he gave me a smile that nobody could forget. It was just a few days before Christmas and I told Tammy that I felt that I had received my Christmas Present early. She looked at me and said that she felt the same way.

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 Recently I received an email from a parent that said that her child was cleaning out his room and found that he had some educational computer games that he would like to give to a child that could use them. The child we will call him Jacob M. had his mother contact me and asked me if we where interested in the programs. I informed the mother that the childs gift would be more than welcome and shortly after we received them in the mail.  They have been divided up and given to two children that really appreciate them. To me this shows that there are really many people that care and that it is not only the adults that want to help but also our children. That is why I am proud of our motto " OUR CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE " With children like this how can we be wrong? 

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OUR FUTURE PLANS 

  This year we hope to build a small building for processing the newly donated computers. This will give us more desk room in the new building that we erected and increase our ability to give the basic computer instructions to people that are receiving the donated computers at present we only have room for two desks in the workshop we would like to have at least five of them. We like to have the recipients of the computers learn on the computer that they will receive and they each get two weeks of basic training if they are in need of it. 

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