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Update on the Kidspire fundraiser!

Duncan Epping · Jul 13, 2020 ·

About 10 days ago I posted a blog about my 12 year milestone at VMware. In the post, I asked for people in the VMware/Virtualization/Cloud community to consider sharing my request and/or consider donating even. VMware provided me the opportunity to donate ~3100 to a charity of choice. As mentioned, I added a personal donation and asked if people would consider contributing. I think it is fair to say it was a huge success. I would like to thank everyone for sharing my blog and tweets, and especially thank everyone who took the time to donate whatever they could. Whether it is 5 dollars or 500 dollars, every single contribution is much appreciated by the Kidspire team and myself.

So what was the result?

Yes, a total combined of 10k+ across the three efforts. (My grant and donation, Gofundme, Brightfunds.) This means that Kidspire can buy ~45 new Chromebooks for 3 orphanages, which is amazing. Again, thanks to everyone for contributing, it is much appreciated, and I will make sure to share some pictures when Kidspire visits Vietnam again to deliver the Chromebooks and sets up the new classrooms. If you haven’t gotten around to it, the fundraising campaigns are still open. I will close them at the end of the month, so there’s still time left to donate if you want. Thanks!

Fundraising for Kidspire Vietnam to enable chromebook refreshes for orphanages in Vietnam, please help!

Duncan Epping · Jul 2, 2020 ·

On the first of July, I reached my 12-year milestone with VMware. Looking back I think one of my most memorable experiences was my trip to Vietnam to help setup computer classrooms for various orphanages. When reaching the 12-year milestone each VMware employee gets a substantial amount to donate to a charity of choice. I decided to donate to Kidspire Vietnam as I know there are various classrooms that are up for a hardware refresh since I visited. With my milestone donation, and a personal donation, I have been able to provide sufficient funds to enable Kidspire Vietnam to refresh a single full classroom (15 Chromebooks) in one orphanage.

With this fundraiser, I am hoping to enable Kidspire Vietnam to refresh at least one more additional classroom in one of the orphanages they support. The cost of a refresh is between 3500 USD and 4000 USD. Hopefully, we will be able to reach this goal, but to be honest, Kidspire can use all the help they can get! Believe me when I say that nothing beats seeing how much these kids enjoy learning new technology, and are able to interact with people (and distant family) over the internet, these technology classes makes them feel they matter.

I would like to thank everyone for donating, or considering to donate. Any amount you can spare is appreciated, but is does seem GoFundMe has a 5 USD minimum unfortunately. If you are a VMware employee, I would like to ask you to consider to donate via our VMware Foundation Portal (login first!!) so that your donation is matched by VMware automatically! Note that all donations will go directly to Kidspire Vietnam, I do not hold the funds, the fundraiser is created in such a way that all proceeds will go directly to where they belong.

Thanks,

Duncan

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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