Action desk

Having had numerous calls asking what to do with old IT equipment the Action Desk discovered that old computers were being recycled and sent out to schools in Africa by a small group of dedicated individuals in Maidstone calling themselves, Computers4Africa.

The charity was set up by Aseri Katanga and is run by George Cook. As an African, Aseri knows the difference computers can make to a continent where many are unemployed, most very poor and where thousands starve. Just one person having a job is life changing for their entire extended family.

Helena Noifeld helping with the campaign

Last year Computers4Africa shipped almost seven hundred PCs out to Tanzania which are now being used to teach approximately 11,700 children highly sought after computing skills.

Computers4Africa CEO George Cook came into the studio to chat to Julie Maddocks about their work along with Sue Boxhall from Holy Trinity C of E Primary School who donated their old computers and have followed them through to Tanzania. Julie then spoke live to thirteen year old Ivon Shigitwa Masai whose school benefited from the donation.

If you’d like to donate your old computer the charity asks for fully operational Pentium 111 PCs, P11 laptops or above. Call the CSV Action Desk for contact details or for a free fact sheet which contains other ways of recycling computers.