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Charity is Appealing to all UK Schools, Colleges and Universities to Donate their old PCs
Published:  19 June, 2008

The charity Computer Aid International is appealing to the UK education sector to help meet an urgent need for IT access in schools, colleges and universities in the developing world.

School children are the main recipients of Computer Aid PCs and the charity has so far provided an ICT education to more than a million children in the developing world. The charity also supplies PCs to teacher training institutions in Africa, providing the teacher-training that is essential for the effective education of a generation of children who will live and work in the digital economy of the 21st Century.  However, when you consider that in sub-Saharan Africa there are still only five or less PCs per 1,000 people, the scale of the task becomes clear.

It is vital that Computer Aid builds on its success to help developing countries lift themselves out of poverty through the use of IT equipment. However in order for them to achieve their aims they need the kind support from organisations such as yours with donations of computer equipment.

Computer Aid offers a full decommissioning service, which includes free Blancco data wiping, WEEE compliance, country wide collection service, asset tracking and a zero percent landfill policy. For more information please visit http://www.computeraid.org/




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