Penza, 25 May 2011. PenzaNews. The ceremony of transferring the next party of the office equipment as a part of the charitable program "Technology for the Benefit" was held at the office of the Penza fund of local community "The Civil Union" on Tuesday, May 24. Previously used computer equipment was received, in particular, by the poetry club and the newspaper "Household conduct."

Office equipment, which the members of the poetry club will use, was presented to visually handicapped Vladimir Rogozhkin. Such equipment was also received by the representatives of the Penza gardening partnerships "Druzhba-2", "Lily"and "Daisy".

The executive director of the Civil Union Oleg Sharipkov said: "For the year of the existence of the program the philanthropists donated to the organizers more than 120 items of the equipment."

The charitable program "Technology for the Benefit" initiated by the news agency "PenzaNews" exists in the Penza region since December 2009 and is created to help low-income families and public institutions to equip their computer or office facilities. Anyone can apply for a community foundation "The Civil Union" with an indication of what kind of equipment he needs. There are also invited businessmen, organizations and individuals to participate in the program who are ready to pass a working computer and other office equipment to the fund for distribution upon the consideration of requests by the members of the expert council.

Within the program old computers and office equipment were given to the organization by the news agency "PenzaNews", entertainment portal «Menupnz.ru», businessman S.V. Bichinov, shopping center "Elcom", the deputy of the Penza City Duma Alexander Seinov, the resident of Penza Anatoly Bodrov, youth nongovernmental organization "The Union of social protection of children", CJSC "Istok", the internet-service "Penza-Sport" and the Penza companies "Byte", "ProSTO", CJSC "Volgostalmontazh", "ARN-Auditor, LLC "SKB Amrita", Research and Production company "KRUG", Research and Production company "Kristall", LLC "RC "Kodeks-Penza", Penza branch of the FGUP "Rostehinventarizatsiya – Federalnoje BTI", LLC "Svyatozar" and "Penzagroproekt".

The expert council of the charitable program "The Technology for the Benefit" consists of the project founder, editor in chief of the news agency "PenzaNews" Pavel Polosin, executive director of "The Civil Union" Oleg Sharipkov, head of the press service of the Penza branch of "Rostelecom's" Alexey Makarov, PR-manager of the Penza branch of JSC "MegaFon" Olesya Postnykh, chief specialist of analysis, planning, marketing and advertising service of the bank "Kuznetsky" Maria Davydova, representative of the entertainment center "Kvadrat" Julia Platonnikova.

The program is currently realized with financial support from "Rostelecom".