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Donation of screens for Ukraine’s bomb-shelter schools

Edinburgh, 9th July 2025 - Our second shipment to Ukraine this year is ready to go, via our new logistics partner.

Support for our Ukrainian work from kindred spirits across the globe

Edinburgh, 2nd May 2025 – We are delighted to be hosting Jack Growden, CEO of Litehaus International, an Australian charity which sends refurbished computers to support access to health and

Silent Night – a documentary

6th March 2025 - Reusing IT features in a new documentary which follows the delivery of humanitarian aid and computers into Kyiv in March 2024.

Ramping up support for Ukraine in the new year

Edinburgh January 2025 - Reusing IT did not shut down for Christmas! Ba humbug!

inclusivity.info – sharing information to solve eradicate digital exclusion

Scotland, December 2024 - We’re excited to see the launch of a new website bringing together news, opinion and action in the field of digital inclusion.

Customised slim clients successfully repurposed for Ukrainian education

December 24 - After six months in development, we are finally delivering our customised, repurposed slim clients to Ukraine. We are incredibly proud of these devices, which represent a breakthrough

Russian attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital

Kyiv, 8th July 24 – Following the devastating Russian strike on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, our thoughts are with those going through the anguish it has unleashed.

Reusing IT volunteers prepare a further 2000 as-new computers for Ukraine.

Harrogate, February 2024 - Final preparations are complete for another 2000 computers to be shipped with Yorkshire Aid Convoy to Ukraine

Supporting childhood in Ukraine with gaming computers for internally displaced children

Ukraine, December 2023 – Reusing IT has sent over 200 gaming computers to children’s homes throughout Ukraine.

Continuing our strong working relationship with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science

Kyiv, Sept 2023 – Three months into our working relationship with the Ukranian Ministry of Education and Science, it was good to meet up with Rosksolana Shvadchak, Director General of

The incalculable cost of the war

Hostomel, August 2023 - In the most profoundly moving day since we started working in Ukraine, we visited Moshchun, the small village where Ukrainian forces stopped the Russian advance on

Reusing IT and Ukrainian Government sign an agreement for the supply of computers for education

Following our work in the west of Ukraine, where we have been delivering laptops since the outbreak of the war...

Side mission – Reusing IT delivers book scanner for St Andrew’s University

July 2023 – We were delighted to be able to help one of Reusing IT’s major donors of used devices, St Andrew’s University

Reaching Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia region with laptops for education

Reaching Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia region with laptops for education

Reusing It helps replace desktop computers for schools destroyed by the war in Ukraine

Edinburgh, March 2023 – Howie Stansfield, Reusing IT volunteer, proudly stands by one of the pallets of 1500 desktop computers ready to be shipped to Ukraine

Refurbished laptops enabling Ukrainian students to safely continue education

Ukraine, December 2022 - We were delighted to receive this photo of the recipient of a laptop from our August shipment, now in Eastern Ukraine.

Bringing children together in pop-up classrooms

In one of the regions in the eastern part of Ukraine worst affected by the war, many schools have been completely destroyed or damaged beyond use.

All set for the delivery of 500 laptops to Uzhhorod, Ukraine

30th August 2022 - Reusing IT is extending their support for internally displaced school children in Ukraine, with a delivery of a further 500 refurbished laptops.

Refurbished laptops with Cyrillic keyboards ready to ship to Ukraine

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

Reusing IT sends 100 laptops to internally displaced children in Ukraine

16th March 2022 – One of the immediate consequences of the war in Ukraine is a huge number of internally displaced children and disruption to their education. With many schools

Series of cartoons highlights digital exclusion during lockdown

We are delighted to commission Rob Murray, cartoonist for Private Eye and other publications...

Support for lockdown education via The School Bank West Lothian

West Lothian, Scotland, 30th July 2020 – The School Bank West Lothian approached Reusing IT to seek support for families who need devices for education in West Lothian during lockdown.

Homeschooling during lockdown made possible with donated computer

West Lothian, Scotland, 2020 – We received a message from a parent during the Covid lockdown, describing the “nightmare” of attempting to homeschool her three sons with no computer and

Reusing IT celebrates milestone donation of 3000th computer to The Turing Trust

Edinburgh, 2018 - Reusing IT and the Turing Trust are celebrating a milestone in their partnership, with the most recent donation of computers to the Trust bringing the total to