Grandmothers Getting Inner City Kids Online
AUGUST 2, 2014
Tags: Digital InclusionDigital Literacy
Grandmothers Getting Inner City Kids Online

Older African American women have flocked to our free digital life skills classes.
Based on data we’ve collected, our statistics reveal that the majority of those who are involved with our free computer and Internet classes are African-American women over 50 years old. Most have school-aged children in their homes. Why is this so significant?
In addition to free digital literacy courses, thanks to our computer refurbishing program, they are also getting a $75.00 computer. By doing so, they’re making sure those kids who live with them have an Internet-connected PC in the home so they won’t get left behind.
The Significance
Why is this so significant? In the Kansas City Public Schools, 70% of school children do not have the Internet in their homes. Many of these children live in neighborhoods where as few as 1 in 5 households own a computer or have in home Internet. (2013 US Census)

Our PCs are going to neighborhoods where only 1 in 5 families a computer.
In 2013, Connecting for Good trained over 1,000 people from under served inner city neighborhoods in basic computer skills like how to use email and how to search the web. We are on track this year to reach twice that many. Since last April, nearly 2,000 of our refurbished computers have found their way to homes in Kansas City’s under resourced inner city neighborhoods.
We need your support at this time to help us to keep helping the urban core get online. Together, we can close the Digital Divide In Kansas City!
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