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Donation from ATOS Origin to Netlib.

Jos BlejieJos Blejie, Executive Vice President van Atos Origin Nederland recently donated forty PC’s and two laptops to NETLIB. These computers are still very suitable for the students in Liberia.

Jos Blejie hands over one of the laptops to Abdullah Kamara. The support by ATOS Origin/Managed Operations to Netlib fits in the management filosophy of Atos Origin (People, Planet, Profit) and is an example of social involvement.
ATOS ORIGIN

School materials and other donations shipped to Liberia.

Safmarine BV. has transported to Liberia two containers filled with school materials and donations worth over 10, 000 Euros.

Safmarine, ROC Twente and NETLIB to build a technical School from containers

The students of the ROC of Twente (technical division) will shortly begin a project of building the school using containers. This project based on the Lego concept will be designed and made in the Netherlands and later assembled in Liberia by local technicians. Safmarine has donated a number of containers for this project and has further transported them to Liberia.
SAFMARINE

This project is expected to start in the spring of 2008. All our partners will be asked to kindly help with more contributions (cash or kind) in order to accomplish this project.

The contact persons for this project are Mr. Jan Ooms, ROC Twente, Mrs. Larisa Thuije, Safmarine and Mr.Abdullah Kamara. Earlier a very important partner of NETLIB the ROC of Twente, had donated two containers full with school materials and Safmarine which is an International Container Transport business between South-Africa and Belgium), transported them to Liberia free of charge (valued at more than 10,000 Euros).
ROC TWENTE

Local administration in Liberia appointed and started preparation work on the technical school

In January Alimata Kamara from Arnhem traveled to Liberia to in order to arrange some documentations prior to the arrival of the school materials. She was assisted in the process by Folley Johnson and Alhaji Lossenee Kamara. They were asked by NETLIB headquarters in the Netherlands to work together as local administrators of NETLIB in Liberia.

As a result of their efforts, NETLIB has now been officially recognized as a local NGO in Liberia and can make use of all the benefits and immunities that are given to local NGO’s in Liberia; for instance the duty free privilege on items that are intended for the needy people of Liberia.