WiFi to help out with HIV/AIDS on Mfangano Island

WiFi to help out with HIV/AIDS on Mfangano Island
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Hey, I help out The Organic Health Response on Mfangano Island, and gave them some money a few months ago to help upgrade their wifi. You'll see them on the
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IT and environmental sustainability on Mfangano Island in Western Kenya to work against HIV/AIDS across Lake Victoria. And I've been helping them
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Well recently, they provided me with a 2013 update about how the money I donated has helped them out:

"The Organic Health Response on Mfangano Island has recently upgraded its record-breaking WiFi link to provide expanded Internet access for rural users on this remote island.

Thanks to support from the craigconnects and craigslist Charitable Fund, OHR worked with SF-based Inveneo to implement new noise buffering dishes that strengthen their 90-km wireless link from the mainland to OHR's wind-powered tower on Mfangano. From this unique tower, they are also now able to provide access to commercial users at sites throughout the island.Their first client is the Ministry of Health who now receives 1MBS speeds for clinicians at a rural HIV/AIDS clinic in Sena village.

Through local innovation, hard work, strong global relationships, OHR, Inveneo, craigconnects, and craigslist Charitable Fund continue to move forward towards establishing East Africa's first Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) on Lake Victoria."

This is real important stuff, and can help a lot of people out. More to come. I'd like to say that the sun never sets on the Nerdish Empire...

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