A short last week

Hello everyone! Our third and last week is over, and wow. The time has just gone so fast. We started the week by visiting two schools, Eqakwini High School and Giloki high school on the Monday. Eqakwini had one of the most advanced computer setups we have ever seen, embarrassingly we didn’t even know how […]

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A second week full of learning

Hello Again! Our second week of working has come to an end, and we hope you had a great week, because we did! We started our week by visiting Cwakeme high school. Our goal at this school was to check if their computers were working correctly. When we got there, all their computers were placed […]

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A long first update

Much have happened since the last post, we have changed board members, found new sponsors, prepared new computers, and already spent a full week repairing and donating computers in Hluhluwe! So, lets start with us, the 2019 board members, we are all very excited to be able to be members of CESA since we all […]

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The third and unfortunatly last week.

Sawobona (Hi in Zulu), During this last week, we had a lot of computers left since the last week was cut a bit short. So what we did was that we stepped up the game a bit and tried to go to more schools per day. This wasn’t as easy as it might seem since […]

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A Short Second Week

The work this week is already over because of the South African national holiday Women’s day, which is celebrated tomorrow (Thursday). Since the holiday is on a Thursday the schools are closed on Friday too. This week we went to four different schools and donated a total of 40 new laptops. Today we were at […]

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First Week in Hluhluwe

A first week of work in Hluhluwe is done. We arrived Saturday evening to Hluhluwe and on Sunday we went to Hluhluwe town to buy and order some adapters for the laptops. During Monday we did not go to any school, but stayed at Star for Life’s office to look though the computers and organize […]

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Travel Update

Long time no see! Since the last update, we have been really busy with exploring South Africa. We have been to Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Beaufort West, Knysna, Keurboomstrand and Port Elizabeth. Examples of activities we have done are hiking up Table Mountain, watching penguins in Simon’s Town, seeing whales by the coast of Plettenberg Bay, […]

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Landed in Cape Town

We have now arrived in Cape Town, South Africa! We have two weeks of vacation before we head to Hluhluwe to work for three weeks. After 22 hours of traveling and a few hours walking around in Cape Town we are really tired and are now bbqing some hamburgers to have for dinner. The laptops […]

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See You In South Africa

The latest weeks we have been doing the final fixes to the laptops. This included cleaning the laptops and adding stickers from our sponsors Ericsson and Opera. On Monday we started packing the laptops and yesterday they were picked up and they started their journey to South Africa. It is getting closer to our departure […]

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Working hard

It’s been a long time since we updated the blog because we’ve been working hard on making the computers ready to ship at the end of the month. We’ve been cleaning the hard drive, installing ubuntu, offline Wikipedia and some other free offline learning programs that we think will be much appreciated. We are done with […]

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