[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft CEO to Work at Orphanage in Kenya: Press Release 28 June 2007

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LOVELAND, Colorado - 28 June 2007 - Terra Soft's CEO Kai Staats will spend the 
month of August in Nakuru, Kenya working with the Pistis Orphanage & Academy 
to complete important projects for this children's home and school.

The Pistis Academy & Orphanage, Nakuru, Kenya (three hours northwest of 
Nairobi) is a place for children without family. Former street children and 
the especially poor receive a home at Pistis while Pistis itself struggles 
with limited resources and facilities, including teaching staff for the 
Academy. Beyond the basic schooling, meals, and crude housing, there are 
almost no health or education programs currently in place for the children.

Student Project Africa Network (SPAN), founded by Truman Scholar Rebecca 
Mitchell, offers a conduit between volunteers and Pistis to further the 
construction of facilities, improve the foundation for education, and give 
the children hope for something beyond their immediate needs.

Terra Soft's founder and CEO Kai Staats will spend the month of August on-site 
at Pistis, working with Regional SPAN Director, Principal and general 
caretaker Leonard Muyelele, his staff, students, and the local tradesmen of 
Nakuru to complete critical projects. Projects in motion include electrical 
wiring, the application of plaster and paint, the creation or procurement of 
office and school furniture, design of a water storage and filtration system, 
and design of a new building.

"The projects may be completed only if the funds are made available through 
the volunteers. In addition to the funds donated by Terra Soft, I encourage 
family, friends, and industry associates to support what I hope will be the 
beginning of a life long relationship with Pistis, its staff, and the 
children." --Kai Staats, CEO Terra Soft Solutions.

	To learn more about SPAN, Pistis, and Kai's work in Kenya:
	http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/giving-back/

	To learn how you may support the work at Pistis:
	http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/giving-back/support-pistis.shtml

	To follow Kai's work in Kenya:
	http://blogs.ydl.net/kai/category/out-of-africa/


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
As the recognized leader in Linux for Power since 1999, Terra Soft provides 
turn-key, integrated solutions built upon IBM, Mercury, and Sony systems, 
board support packages for Power OEMs, and cross-architecture Linux 
applications for high performance computing. Terra Soft develops Yellow Dog 
Linux, the leading 32/64-bit Linux OS for the Power architecture, first to 
market with support for the Cell processor; the Y-HPC cross-architecture 
cluster construction suite; and Y-Bio, a cross-architecture gene sequence 
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