The Veterans For Peace Computer Clinic is proving to be a success, with veterans clients signing up at a great rate to take basic computer classes. At this writing we have ten on board and several more inquiries waiting to be handled.
An outgrowth of the Veterans Court program, this is a prime example of veterans helping veterans. We are creating a community environment of success and fulfillment as an antidote to the hopelessness and defeat that often leads to violence and anti-social behavior. In other words, bringing a measure of peace into our homes. AsVeterans For Peace, we are pleased to be able to provide this service and develop the opportunity to recruit more members to our cause through attraction, rather than promotion.
Co-sponsoring the enterprise with Veterans For Peace and the St. Louis Veterans Court under Commissioner James E. Sullivan is the Employment Connection, a non profit of 25 years standing providing employment services of many kinds to people released from the prison system, veterans, and others needing help. It has gifted the clinic with space and internet and telephone access.
Donations by the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Applied Logic, Inc., a St. Louis-based medical inventory software provider, have given us a foundation of thirteen working computers and two printers.
At present, classes in basic computer skills, conducted by Vet Court volunteer Kennedy Davis, have been set up for mornings, Monday thru Thursday. He is assisted by a volunteer instructor from the Harris Stowe college who can cover several aspects of job-hunting and career-building beside basic computer skill-building.