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DePuy Orthopaedics donated more than 30 computers, several printers and two copy machines to Combined Community Services.
DePuy recently upgraded their computers and decided to donate those they no longer need to CCS, according to DePuy employee Brenda Allbritten.
CCS was chosen to receive the donation because of their extensive outreach programs, said Allbritten.
The computers will be distributed to United Way agencies and Project Independence clients of CCS, said CCS Executive Director Jim Coons.
Coons said four computers will go to the prescription program of Home Care and Hospice, one will go to Girl Scouts, one will go to Lakeland Day Care Center and one or two will go to the Boys and Girls Club. Other agencies, as well as the Project Independence clients, also will receive computers.
Coons said for a person to qualify for Project Independence, that person must be advancing his or her education, meet the poverty requirement, have children and be over age 18. These are the people who can qualify to get a computer.
Coons organized a computer training session for some of the recipients of the computers Wednesday at the United Way office. Coons and CCS computer specialist Ron Wright instructed a group of employees and volunteers of several United Way agencies in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Coons said, for the most part, the agencies don't have computers. In many cases, the employees of these agencies don't even know how to work a computer.
The instruction course was basically to get people started. Coons said there might be future classes.
