Computer Aid wants your gadgets

CHARITY ORGANISATION Computer Aid has launched a new campaign today to provide technology of all sorts to the less fortunate. And no, we do not mean Apple users.

For the month of February the charity is asking anyone who has any old but working kit that they no longer use to donate it to them so that they can pass it on to people in other countries who might actually get some benefit from them. In this case, school children in Africa.

Reminding us that as a world we are obsessed with consuming things, the charity points out that most of us will have been showered with gadgets over the Christmas period, and during the course of the year will have gone through more PCs and handsets than a call centre worker. Rather than just bin them or store them in a drawer, the charity is offering to recycle and re-use them. Which makes a lot more sense to us.

Computer Aid will use an Ebay account to sell the goods, and adds that any slightly less charitable people who want to borrow their idea, can sell their own goods on the site, while making a donation from their profits to it.

It adds, "Just £50 enables Computer Aid to put a PC onto a school desk in Africa, which can give 50 children the opportunity to reach a vocational level of IT literacy."

Which must be a bargain when you compare it against what it probably costs at a UK school. µ