Two years ago, the Tikun Olam Committee of El Salvador received an ROI seed fund grant: $4,000.00 designated for  "books and scholarships for students in the Instituto Estado de Israel in La Paz, El Salvador". Aside from the books and scholarships, there was enough money to buy more things: cloth for uniforms, sporting goods and the upgrade of the computer room of the institute. In December, the Tikun Olam Committee completed funding the upgrading of the computer lab of the Instituto Estado de Israel in Jerusalen, La Paz, which concluded the work paid for by the grant.

"The whole process of diagnosis, getting the parts and repairing the 15 computers and its mother system took almost a year," explained project director Aaron Sztarkman, noting that the institute lies pretty far away from San Salvador.

The work was finished last October, but due to personal reasons and uncontrollable external factors - like a hurricane that almost destroyed the area in November - the project couldn't be completed until this past December.

Sztarkman reports a bonus: "There was enough money left to buy new basketball hoops for their court." (See pictures of the upgraded computer lab, at left.) "With this donation we complete the grant that ROI gave us almost two years ago."

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