Computers for Charity

• You can come to Turning Point Church on Tuesday from 4:00-8:00 PM to make your $10.00 donation. We will provide you with a Certificate of Adoption for you to keep and a Family Nomination form for you to nominate the family.
• The Family Nomination Form is what is turned in to us to receive the computer! You will either give it to the family or turn it in to us yourself to redeem the computer.
• Computers will be available by Dec 13th.You are welcome to attend our Open House service from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM on that day and pick up the computer!

Santa's Elves have been working extra hard this year and are bringing something very special. Free Computers for Christmas are available to families with kids from 3 to 12 years of ages. Families can sign up to receive a free computer the at one of the following Participating Organizations:

First you have to sign up for the program on the Family Nomination Request List. We will find a donor to adopt the computer for you. Donors can be individuals, organizations, or the family itself. With a donation of just $10.00 We will be able to provide the entire computer system preloaded with our special Kids OS packed with educational games!

Once a Computer has been adopted for your family you will receive the Family Nomination Form. This form will be signed by the Adopter and the Participating Organization and filled out with some information about your family to authenticate it.

Family Nomination forms and the Certificate of Adoption are branded with a Unique ID Number to assure that each family who is nominated will be able to receive one of these computers while supplies last. 

You must bring the Family Nomination Form to Turning Point Church to pick up your Computer for Christmas.  The computers will be gift-wrapped and ready to go under the Christmas Tree!

If you would like your church or organization to be listed as a participating organization. We can get a starter pack and more information to you right away! email us at computersforcharity@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Qimo is a desktop Operating System designed for kids. Based on the Ubuntu Linux desktop. Qimo comes pre-installed with educational games for children 3 and up.

Qimo's interface has been designed to be intuitive and easy to use, providing large icons for all installed games, so that even the youngest users have no trouble selecting the activity they want.

Qimo was designed by a husband and wife team in Florida, for their charity Quinn Co. The charity specializes in refurbishing donated computers to serve low-income and special needs children.As a result, Qimo is designed to run easily on low end hardware: the minimum system requirements are a 400 MHz processor and 256 MB of RAM and a 8 GB hard Drive.

Computers for Charity is developing a remix of this operating system, designed to run specifically on the Power PC Architecture of the Apple e Macs.

The Apple eMac G4/1.42 (2005) features a 1.42 GHz PowerPC 7447a (G4) processor with the AltiVec "Velocity Engine" vector processing unit and a 512k on chip level 2 cache, 256 MB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM, and 80 GB Ultra ATA/100 harddrive, a tray-loading "Combo" or dual-layer "SuperDrive" optical drive, ATI Radeon 9600 graphics with 64 MB dedicated DDR SDRAM, as well as support for Airport Extreme and Bluetooth (neither are pre-installed) in an all in one case with a 17.0 (16.0" viewable area) CRT display (resolution support to 1280x960 in 24 bit color).