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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

School in Ghana prepares room for new computer lab

Ghana, 2005 – One of the challenges with installations of donated computers is to make sure the environment is correctly prepared for the equipment, especially in an organisation where they

Opportunities for disabled girls broadened by Reusing IT’s donation of computers

Kenya – 2001. Reusing IT delivered 50 desktop computers to the Shanzu Guides in Kenya, a girl guiding group supporting the education of girls with physical and mental disabilities.

Donated computer has unexpected extra impact for health charity

Tanzania, 2000 – Reusing IT travelled to Tanzania to assist with technology for a primary health care project.

Pupils in Bukoba enjoy peer to peer training with donation of school computers

Bukoba, Tanzania – 2000. A group of secondary school children from Balerno High School, near Edinburgh, accompanied Reusing IT on a trip to deliver computers to schools in Tanzania.

Reusing IT delivers computers to a rural Kenyan school

Kenya, 1999 – Continuing their mission to improve educational access, Reusing IT was at a small rural school in Kenya to install computers in the classroom.

Refurbished computers transform humanitarian work in Kenya’s largest slum

Kibera, Kenya, December 1999 – Reusing IT is working with a charity in Kenya which is establishing schools to provide free education for children living in Kibera, the country’s largest

Victims of bombing get prosthetic limbs quickly thanks to donated computer

Nairobi, Kenya, 1998 – After the Al-Qaeda bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998, Kenyan nationals who had lost limbs in the blast faced an agonising wait of

Plockton High School pupils are the inspiration behind Reusing IT

Plockton, Scotland, 1995 – A group pupils in a small Scottish Highlands secondary school set up Computers for Africa