Computer Assistance Committee

Task: to generate funding for Computers and related equipment/supplies [i. e. printers, software, ink]. The immediate objective is to generate 16 computers estimated to cost around 600,000 Philippine pesos or 11,000 U. S. dollars, for the newly established SMS computer room.

Nominated/Suggested Chairman: Raymond Alipit [Accepted]
Nominated/Suggested Co-Chair: Maximo Batong

Nominated/Suggested Members:

P. S. If you want to revise your committee involvement preferences, you can always go to the Working Committees List to review its contents, then go to the Committee Involvement Form to change whatever you want to change.

Gawis guedan nas committee. Mabalin ay dwan-po-o ay alumni and friends et kayang-kaya da ay mang lako es esay computer [20 individuals pooling their contributions can make it easy on the pockets of individual donors] . If you come up with a brochure or solicitation flyer, the publications committee will gladly print the same for you. You can then distribute such material to your associates and friends. Mabalin pay ay soliciten yos Bill Gates.

The following are suggestions which the committee chair/members may or may not wish to follow.

I guess the first step in the computer funding assistance initiative is to prepare a brochure or flyer which can be mailed or emailed to prospective donors [particularly to SMS alumni and friends].

The second step is to involve as many SMS alumni and Friends as possible with the purpose of making donations much easier on the pockets of prospective donors.

Given: A good computer [but not top-of-the-line computer] here in the States Costs from $500.00 to $700.00. Let us pick the $700.00 for our example. $700.00 divided by 20 donors = $35.00 per donor. In Philippine Pesos, $700 x 55 = P35,000.00. P35,000 divided by 20 = P1,750.00 per donor. I am using the number 20 because I believe that it is easy to come up with 20 donors per computer.

Now let us divide the 16 computers needed by SMS into:

8 computers for Philippine-based SMS alumni and friend; and
8 computers for overseas based alumni and friends.

Let us further divide the 8 computers allocated for Philippine-based alumni and friends into:

2 computers from Metro-Manila based SMS alumni and Friends
2 computers from Baguio-Benguet based SMS alumni and Friends [which includes the rich SMS alumni and Friends in Trinidad]
2 computers from the rich Tabuk-Kalinga based SMS alumni and Friends
2 computers from the Bontoc-Sagada-Besao-Tadian-KDP (ken daduma pay) based alumni and friends.

For the 8 computers allocated to overseas-based SMS alumni and friends, these can be divided as follows:

1 computers from the East Coast-based alumni and friends, i. e., New Jersey, New York, Washington D. C., New England States, Philadelphia - kaka-asi iman datona
2 computers from the West Coast -based alumni and friends, i. e., Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington State, New Mexico, San Jose, Nevada, Alaska.
1 computer from other-than East Coast and West Coast - based alumni and friends i.e., Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, etc.
1 computer from Canada-based SMS alumni and Friends
1 computer from Australia-based alumni and Friends
1 computer from London-Europe based alumni and Friends
1 computer from Saudi Arabia-Middle East - Hongkong - Singapore- KDP (ken daduma pay) based SMS alumni and friends.

So now lets see the myriad of possibilities on how 8 computers allocated for the Philippines can be generated. We are talking about an amount of 35,000 pesos per computer:

If 20 alumni and friends shared P35,000 the cost per donor = P1,750.00
If 40 alumni and friends shared P35,000, the cost per donor = P875.00
If 80 alumni and friends shared P35,000, the cost per donor = P437.50
If 160 alumni and friends shared P35,000, the cost per donor = P218.75

So in Metro-Manila where SMS-based alumni and friends are presumed to enjoy higher average income than other parts of the Philippines, there must be more than 80 alumni and friends so as to easily produce 2 computers at P875.00 per donor

In Baguio-Benguet where SMS-based alumni and friends may have an average income a little lower than those in Metro Manila, there must be more than 160 alumni and friends there, so as to easily afford 2 computers at P437.00 per donor.

In Tabuk-Kalinga Apayao where SMS-based alumni and friends could be the richest among SMS alumni and friends in the Philippines, there could be more than 20 such rich alumni and friends to easily afford 2 computers.

In the Bontoc-Sagada-Besao-Tadian-KDP based alumni and friends there must be more than three hundred twenty alumni and friends there who can easily afford to produce 2 computers at P218.75 per donor.

The same exercise can be done for overseas-based SMS alumni and friends. However, I know that the members of the Computer and related equipment funding assistance committee [CAREFAC] know this already and will soon be mobilizing themselves to try and be of help to their alma mater.

So, my dear co-alumni/friends in the Philippines better come out fast with your own SMS alumni and friends directory. Every alumni and friend is worth his/her weight in Gold when it comes to fund raising. Every now and then we will be asked to come to the support of our alma mater. That directory is very important. With so many fund raising solicitations flooding the mail boxes of prospective donors such as those related to the Tsunami disaster, the Red Cross, the African calamities from war and sickness [AIDS], the Iraqui and Afganistan fund raising initiatives as well as all the sob story fund raising efforts from the Cordilleras, St. Mary's School will have to depend mainly on its Alumni and Friends.