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In February, a group of 16 cyclists from the UK cycled 400km from Mount Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa, to Lake Victoria, to raise money for the IT charity Computer Aid.
Three employees, Will Sturgeon, Andrew Donoghue, and Helen Cooke, from ZDNet UK's parent company CNET Networks, were part of the team and managed to raise nearly £17,500.
Computer Aid takes donated PCs and refurbishes them for use in developing countries, which stops them ending up in landfill and provides much-needed educational technology to schools and other organisations.
Talkback
You all made it look easy, although it clearly wasn't. What does £17.5k do for Computer Aid and schools in Kenya?
It's only when you've seen the size of the challenge that it sinks in. You've done us all proud. Congratulations.
The £17.5K bought most one of the two shipping containers of PCs we donated -- which equates to about 200 machines I think. Having been on the ground and chatted to pupils and teachers, I can testify what an important difference machines that may have reached the end of their natural life in the UK can make to Kenyan schools and the wider community.
At the moment Computer Aid are pushing hard for laptop machines as part of the project for <a href=" http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39285911,00.htm"> blind teachers </a>. in the region. Teaching is one of the few jobs open to the blind in Kenya – people with disabilities are often hidden away from public view and marginalised – and getting access to the latest teaching aids is an almost impossible task given the expense of Braille books.
Laptops mean visually impaired teachers can store audio and text-based teaching aids in a highly portable and flexible format. So if you're company has got an old laptop hanging around – they tend to sit in cupboards and storage areas rather than being recycled as they are smaller than cumbersome desktops - please get in touch with <a href="http://www.computeraid.org/index.htm"> Computer Aid </a>.