YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — An area non-profit serving to lower-income residents develop into computer-literate is getting a significant enhance from AT&T.

Executives with the telecommunications big introduced a ceremonial test to administrators with the Oak Hill Collaborative price $20,000.

The cash will assist pay the prices of laptop schooling programs and workshops the Collaborative now provides however administrators mentioned the cash can be spent in different methods.

“We are able to do issues to enhance the area. We are able to rent folks. We are able to, , go to warren if we wish. We are able to do a variety of issues along with different monies, with different folks, with different establishments. We actually are a collaborative,” mentioned Pat Kerrigan with Oak Hill Collaborative.

The donation is a part of a $2 billion undertaking by AT&T to assist People enhance their laptop abilities whereas additionally upgrading the community with new expertise and tools.

Almost $45 million of that’s being invested simply within the Youngstown space to put in new fiber optic strains that ought to log on later this 12 months.