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The Children's Computer Center Ltd. was founded by Neil Horgan in November of 1998. Neil himself was disabled in an accident while at work. He found that after being a truck mechanic for 30+ years he was unable to just sit around doing nothing, and most nights he found that he could not sleep because of his injury.

Neil knew that there must be a lot of people that had the same problem. His idea was to start a business that could hire some of the disabled people in the area. He is now trying to obtain a building that he can use for this, and it would also be a place that the children could go to for instruction on the basic use of computers.

A lot has happened since 1998; the Children's Computer Center has been able to donate more than a thousand computers to needy children but he feels that this is only a stepping stone to his dream.


I myself am disabled and find the work for the center a way for me to forget my own problems. My wife also likes to help me in the work shop. She likes to install the operating systems in the computers. She has also helped out by rebuilding some of the computers by herself. For me it seems strange doing this work because all of my life I was a truck mechanic and at the time of my accident I was also going to law school.

-Neil Horgan, founder of Children's Computer Center

Stories:

When we first started a disabled person was referred to me by one of his teachers. He was failing all of his classes because no one could read his writing. Since he obtained his computer I have been told that he is doing very well in his classes. He is now taking law classes and the teachers believe that he will graduate with excellent grades. Maybe he will be able to attain his law degree and in a way it will make me happy to see him graduate, though I could not (see quote above).

I went to a child's home to set up a computer for him. I found that the child had no desk but he was happy to put the monitor on top of a dresser and the keyboard in a drawer. It really hurt me to see this small child so happy to have a computer; you would think he had just received the greatest gift of all. I went home and sat down, but no matter what I did I could see this child as happy as could be. It did not take me long to decide that he had to have a desk, so my wife and I took my desk apart and gave it to him. When it was all set up he gave me a smile that nobody could forget. It was just a few days before Christmas and I told my wife that I felt like I had received my Christmas Present early. She looked at me and said that to me too.