LOVELAND, Colorado - 28 June 2007 - Terra Soft's CEO Kai Staats will spend the month of August in Nakuru, Kenya working with the Pistis Orphanage & Academy to complete important projects for this children's home and school.
The Pistis Academy & Orphanage, Nakuru, Kenya (three hours northwest of Nairobi) is a place for children without family. Former street children and the especially poor receive a home at Pistis while Pistis itself struggles with limited resources and facilities, including teaching staff for the Academy. Beyond the basic schooling, meals, and crude housing, there are almost no health or education programs currently in place for the children.
Student Project Africa Network (SPAN), founded by Truman Scholar Rebecca Mitchell, offers a conduit between volunteers and Pistis to further the construction of facilities, improve the foundation for education, and give the children hope for something beyond their immediate needs.
Terra Soft's founder and CEO Kai Staats will spend the month of August on-site at Pistis, working with Regional SPAN Director, Principal and general caretaker Leonard Muyelele, his staff, students, and the local tradesmen of Nakuru to complete critical projects. Projects in motion include electrical wiring, the application of plaster and paint, the creation or procurement of office and school furniture, design of a water storage and filtration system, and design of a new building.
"The projects may be completed only if the funds are made available through the volunteers. In addition to the funds donated by Terra Soft, I encourage family, friends, and industry associates to support what I hope will be the beginning of a life long relationship with Pistis, its staff, and the children." --Kai Staats, CEO Terra Soft Solutions.
To learn more about SPAN, Pistis, and Kai's work in Kenya:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/giving-back/
To learn how you may support the work at Pistis:
www.terrasoftsolutions.com/giving-back/support-pistis.shtml
To follow Kai's work in Kenya:
blogs.ydl.net/kai/category/out-of-africa/
About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
As the recognized leader in Linux for Power since 1999, Terra Soft provides turn-key, integrated solutions built upon IBM, Mercury, and Sony systems, board support packages for Power OEMs, and cross-architecture Linux applications for high performance computing. Terra Soft develops Yellow Dog Linux, the leading 32/64-bit Linux OS for the Power architecture, first to market with support for the Cell processor; the Y-HPC cross-architecture cluster construction suite; and Y-Bio, a cross-architecture gene sequence analysis suite for both workstations and clusters.
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