Over the holidays Darlene Koss, Cyber Seniors co-ordinator in Blind Bay, saw on Facebook that Kamloops area resident Kyle Wright was gathering donations of used computers to give to children whose families could not afford one.
Wright reported he’d had such an overwhelmingly positive response to his request for donations that he was opening up the computer giveaway to seniors as well.
Through her work in the Blind Bay Cyber Seniors program, which provides one-to-one computer tutoring to seniors through the Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society (LASS) at the Copper Island Seniors Resource Centre, Koss knew of a senior who badly wanted a computer but could not afford one.
Wright agreed to help out, and Koss was able to pick up the donated computer and deliver it to Sorrento-area senior Sandra McCallum this week.
The generosity of this Kamloops Santa and the computer donors in the Kamloops area will open up this local senior’s world and allow her to keep in touch with family and friends.
Wright’s act of kindness, coupled with the initiative taken by Koss was able to change the life of one local senior.