Click to play videoLagos (Nigeria): With seven children and no secondary education, Ajari Ibrahim had little chance of supporting her family.
However, with the help of computer training and an old refurbished computer Ajari now has a job in micro finance, which for her is a means to earn a living.
"I used to think before how to train my children in the school- their education, but with this work I am doing everything- training them now,” says Ajari.
Ajari's saving grace was the Fantsuam Foundation in northern Nigeria, which has so far given some -thousand women computer-training, access to refurbished computers, and as a result often access to jobs.
Refurbished computers are helping alleviate poverty through education, by helping farmers project the weather, open businesses to new markets across Africa now.
The Lagos market named "computer village” is thriving on waste computers. In the United States alone, at least 100 million computers, monitors and televisions become obsolete every year.
Many find their way into third world warehouses, are rebuilt, and then sold to willing buyers across West Africa.
So it’s only a strong credence to a saying "one man's trash is another man's treasure".
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