Donate old projector or ideas for how to get one? Not Spam!

[Tcollins]

Hi everyone,

I am a former Canada HIFI user from when I was helping a family member with their Home Theater solution, and remember having a great experience in problem solving from friendly members.

Today I am a business and global development student who is participating on a trip to African business schools to teach a special "case-based" business course to students and faculty there.

Here is some background on the trip:
http://bit.ly/HJL51E

As I was going over my lesson plans I realized that some of the most powerful takeaways from classes that I have attended were contained in videos which professors played from Youtube or TED, etc. and that I had many similar videos which I could use to complement my own lessons.

I emailed the university at which I will be teaching to ask about multimedia capabilities in the classroom, and was told that there was no such possibility.

Concurrently, another member of my group emailed KLM - the airline we will be using - and was informed that the airline allows passengers flying to Africa to take an extra piece of luggage containing materials for donation in-country. Naturally, I thought that were I able to get my hands onto a projector system, I could easily bring it to the university and leave it there upon completion.

I figured that I would post up here to the experts in the area to see if I could get any help/advice in getting an old digital projector for me to take. I have some knowledge of the technology and am confident that I could pull it off if I could only get a projector (and potentially some small speakers).

If this post annoys you and/or you feel it is spam, I apologize, but if you find my appeal interesting my email is tcollins.hba2013(at) ivey.ca. There have been great stories of online communities having genuine positive effects on social problems, and I can assure you I will make full use of the projector.

I will be leaving from Toronto April 29, am currently in London, but will be visiting the Collingwood area prior to my departure. If you have any questions or if I didn't make myself clear, feel free to shoot me an email as well.


All the best,
Tom

[Suave]

Thanks for sharing your story with us here Tom. As you might imagine most of us here would be a little apprehensive to donate a projector to someone that we don't know personally. It sounds like you are trying to do something commendable but I'm not sure how much luck you'll have find a projector from a forum member.

My suggestion would be to approach family and friends and ask them for small monetary donations. There a lots of inexpensive projector options out there today and you could probably pick one up for as little at $400.