Never too young to help
23:31, 5 December 2005
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Jacob Komar, 13, said he was nine years old and puzzled after hearing his sister's school was throwing out dozens of old computers. The computer whiz knew he could recycle many of them for use by poor kids. Komar -- did I mention he was 9 at the time? -- rebuilt the computers himself and developed training manuals. He now is founder of a group, Computers for Communities, which takes outdated computers from businesses and fixes them up. His group has redistributed more than 1,000 to needy families in Idaho, Texas and Colorado. "You don't need to have a genius IQ to set this all up, just the will to do it," Komar said. Komar was honored recently by the nonprofit Caring Hall of Fame, founded by Val Halamandaris, who was inspired by Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It inducted its first class of honorees in 1989.
