Charity plea for your old PCs

Computer Aid International wants 50,000 end-of-life PCs

Computer Aid International is launching a major appeal aimed at businesses for 50,000 end-of-life PCs and laptops.

The appeal is the charity’s largest ever and is a major push considering the figure to date of shipped PCs by Computer Aid is just 100,000. The PCs were shipped to not-for-profit education, agriculture and health organisations in more than 100 developing countries.

Louise Richards, Computer Aid chief executive, said “The 100,000 PCs already supplied by our donors are supporting the Millennium Development Goals of gender equality, eradicating poverty, enriching education, and improving health and medical care in the developing world.”

But she added, “This is a drop in the ocean compared to how many people still have access to IT and desperately need this equipment to help them end the grinding cycle of poverty.”