hopes to encourage a greener , more prosperous future for his country . The Help Kenya Project has provided more than 2,000 refurbished computers to Kenya 's schools and planted more than 150,000 trees . Watch Ndambuki and his Help Kenya Project in action '' `` Many of the schools that I give computers -LSB- to -RSB- in Kenya have not seen computers before . So we 're bringing them closer to the development , '' explained Ndambuki , adding that without this opportunity , some of those schools might have gone another 20 years without touching a computer . `` It 's like giving the kids new life , '' he said . `` Computers are getting new life , and trees are being planted to bring a new life , too . It 's all connected . '' Finding treasure in the trash `` Growing up was not easy '' for Ndambuki , who said he became a teacher to help children who are struggling the way he did . The second of eight children raised by a widowed mother , Ndambuki attended school at the expense of his older brother ; he quit because the family could
DOBBS FERRY , New York -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Jude Ndambuki teaches high school chemistry , but when he 's not in class , you might find him Dumpster diving for discarded computers . Jude Ndambuki 's Help Kenya Project provides refurbished computers for Kenyan students . For the past eight years , the Kenya native has been refurbishing computers , printers and other electronic educational resources otherwise headed for landfills , then sending them to grateful students back home . `` The children in Kenya have very few resources ; even a pencil is very hard to get , '' said Ndambuki , 51 , who lives in the New York City suburb of Dobbs Ferry . `` Being one of the kids who actually experienced very dire poverty in Kenya , I feel any part that I can play to make the life of kids better , I better do it . '' In lieu of compensation for the considerable time , expertise and expenses he devotes to his Help Kenya Project , Ndambuki asks that recipients plant 100 trees for every computer they receive . By connecting computer recycling , educational development and environmental conservation , he