15 Reasons for 15 Computers!

"We are the World" English Club posters, 2010.

The English Club is excited about the Library’s applying to the Bill Gates-funded Bibliomist project to get 15 computers and internet access. Members wrote a support letter and came up with 15 reasons our Library needs 15 computers. The excitement is radiating out like a stone thrown into a pond. It's a good thing for Starobelsk at a time when there's not a whole lot of good news. We got almost 50 names on the support letter, including those of students in Natalia's English classes at the University. Here is a copy of the letter:

Dear Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

We the members of the Starobelsk Library English Club and members of English classes at University support the Library's application to the Bibliomist project for 15 computers and free internet access. We discussed this at Club meetings and came up with 15 Reasons for 15 Computers.

1. To make our teaching and learning more modern, and the world of knowledge more accessible.

2. To bring our community into the 21st Century."

3. To increase internet access for students who do not have it at home.

4. To increase access to different cultures around the globe, connect to global village. (We are now studying Japan and have studied other countries too.)

5. To make our studies, including English language, more interesting.

6. To give teachers access to materials & resources from around the world.

7. To COMMUNICATE, with friends, family, new friends.

8. To do research in subjects we study and are interested in, to discover new information.

9. To get latest news from around the world.

10. To get sports news from around the world, watch football.

11. To look up "how to" fix things, like plumbing, cars, practical uses

12. To have access to the global media, new for us in Ukraine.

13. To shop on line.

14. To open new opportunities for jobs, work and living worldwide.

15. To travel the world!

We hope you will "e-power" our library! We need computers and internet access! Thank you. Signed by members of the Starobelsk Library English Club and students from English classes at the Starobelsk branch of the Luhansk Taras Shevchenko University.