BRADENTON, Fla. (SNN) – For nearly a decade, a Bradenton man has been on a mission to close the digital divide — one refurbished laptop at a time.
Seventy-nine-year-old Craig Clark, better known around town as the “Tech Fairy,” has turned his love of technology into a full-time passion project. Inside his East Bradenton home, Clark spends hours repairing computers that might otherwise end up in the trash — and then gives them away to people who can’t afford one.
“This got started because I wound up with five computers in my house,” Clark said with a laugh. “They needed to go somewhere. They weren’t valuable to me — but they were valuable to other people who didn’t have them.”
That simple idea has grown into a decade-long effort. Clark has now refurbished and donated more than 700 laptops, all collected through the neighborhood app Nextdoor…