Seattle teens to greet President Bush in Uganda Local program brings computer technology to Ugandan schools (Seattle, WA, USA — 11 July 2003) - Nine Seattle-area students and five adult leaders will be at Entebbe International airport in Uganda on Friday to welcome President Bush when he arrives in the country during his five-nation tour of Africa. The students, ranging in age from 13-19, are in Uganda as part of a Rotary club-sponsored project that delivers computers to technology-poor countries.

The project, called "Computers for the World," is using the on-site expertise of students and faculty from Seattle's Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and Mt. Si High School to equip four Ugandan schools with a 15-station computer lab and repair computers at a fifth location. Approximately 3100 students, most of them young women, will be impacted by the donated technology.

In addition to setting up computer labs, the Seattle teens will teach computer classes and software maintenance to Ugandan students and faculty during their three-week stay in Uganda.

Computers for the World allows Seattle-area high school students to help bridge the digital divide in technology-poor nations. The students refurbish old computers donated by businesses and then work with Rotary clubs to help set up computer labs in the host countries.