August 2022 – Reusing IT has accepted an invitation from Yorkshire Aid Convoy to be part of their next humanitarian mission to Ukraine. After all due diligence and with the blessing of family members, we will be travelling to Uzhhorod later this month.
We are taking 500 refurbished laptops to support education in areas disrupted by the war, and now that we have a greater understanding of the needs and challenges, we are supplying keyboards with the Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet. Huge thanks is due to Andrea and Jamie for their supreme effort in applying Cyrillic alphabet stickers to 500 keyboards! After doing 20 keyboards, we proudly sent a photo to the recipients in Ukraine, and received an incredulous email back – we had accidentally applied Russian Cyrillic characters! Diplomatic incident averted, our fantastic volunteers took it in their stride; we ordered the correct alphabet and started over!
