Click
here to buy handstitched household
items, personal accessories, toys, and other crafts made by Akha village
women and Akha Crafts Center staff in Chiang Rai, Thailand
(Internet Store created by Good Samaritan Technologies)
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Good Samaritan Technologies
Good Samaritan
Technologies, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Colorado-based corporation founded by Director Kerry Hassler in May 2007 that provides free technology consulting to missionaries and faith-based organizations. Click on "Donate" to make a U.S. tax-deductible donation to help pay for software/hardware and travel expenses for on-going Good Samaritan Technologies projects around the world.
Helping Karen
Refugees Relocated to the U.S.
Click here
to see how the "Karen Konnection" website created by Good
Samaritan Technologies is providing information to churches and communities
about the Karen
Areas of Global
Technology Consulting
Good
Samaritan Technologies provides free consulting services to missionaries
and faith-based organizations in the following areas -
Consult,
design, and implement Internet websites This
includes free hosting of Internet websites, implementing website software
and designing website graphics, and setting up website "Internet
stores" to sell especially FairTrade items made by needy people
outside the U.S. that generates family income sent directly back to
them through a missionary and/or their local church.
Provide
high-tech training/educational systems This
includes designing/implementing PC-based training/education software
packages for use in a "learning center" located in a church
or other facility sponsored by a missionary or faith-based organization
to help people who are in need of job and/or language skills.
Provide
distance-learning solutions to help needy students in remote locations This
includes using existing Voice/Video Over IP (VOIP) capabilities to
allow needy students in especially smaller remote towns/villages to
access (sometimes interactively) academic and/or training courses
offered by institutions in a larger cities over the Internet.
Provide
PBX Call Center solutions for needy people served by missionaries This
includes using existing technologies for public -network
Call Centers as well as Voice/Video Over IP (VOIP) PC
applications to help needy people to contact a counselor or assistance
group sponsored by a missionary or faith-based organization who can
help them in some way (such as a toll-free "help hot-line" for women needing assistance to escape an abusive spouse).
Summary of Good Samaritan Technologies
Projects involving Missionaries and Churches
Asia/Pacific
(5 projects in Thailand, 2 projects in Japan, and 1 project in Nagaland)
Photos from Good
Samaritan Technologies consulting done in Thailand (February 2007)
Scenes during development
of "Akha Crafts Center Internet Store" website with Chuck/Ruth
Fox in Chiang Rai and
"Lanna Cafe' Coffee" website with
Mike/Becky Mann in Chiang Mai