In November 2002, The Wharton
Club Mexico City delivered a donation of around 30 computers and
peripherals to two public schools. One of these schools is located in the
industrial neighborhood of Ecatepec, northeast of Mexico City, and is
named “Dr Manuel Velasco-Suárez Technical Education Center”, after the
father of neurosurgery in Mexico; the other is a primary school located in
Malinalco, a rural town 2-hour drive from the country’s capital.
The donation was raised entirely among
Wharton alumni, who enthusiastically participated in this
community-support initiative, thus giving low-income students the
opportunity to advance towards closing the digital divide.
For the rural school in
the State of México, the computers received represented the only IT
available to a group of around 50 students. While for the urban school,
the equipment received doubled the IT infrastructure available to the
500-student body.
The picture shows some of the alumni who participated
in this initiative (left to right): Carlos Niezen (current club
president); Antonio Carrillo (previous club president); Luis Velasco;
Samuel Nanes; Armando Busto; and Alejandro Menchaca.
