Laptop Donations to Schools – July 2019

Asha received donations of used laptops from several individual donors and small companies. These were given to various schools that didnt have adequate number of computers.

Used Laptop Donations

Asha is sending computer teachers to close to 100 schools this year. We can always make good use of used laptops. When Venkat and Rajaram travelled to the US, they contacted people they know and through them they received donation of 7 used laptops. Around this same time, the Tamilnadu education department also gave one laptop to many schools. We looked at the list of school we support and selected three school for giving the laptops. We gave two laptops each for these schools. These were given to the schools in July.

One of the laptops is kept at Asha. This will be used as a spare for Asha teachers laptops. We often need a spare laptop when laptops develop some repairs.

Here are the details of the schools that received the laptop.

Nallan Pillai Petral

This is a primary school situated in Villupuram District. It has 152 children and is a cluster centre. In spite of all these things, it had only two computers that are more than 10 years old and are for most part unusable. It has received one laptop from the government like most other schools. So the school has just one working computer. The school Headmaster welcomes Asha’s support and takes active part in all Asha initiatives. We have two of our teachers Manimozhi and Anjalai at the school.

Here are some photos of the laptop donation and children using our donated laptops.

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PUPS Palavakkam

This is a primary school situated in Ellapuram block of Thiruvallur District. It has ??? children. It did not have a single computer. Asha gave one used laptop last year. It has also received one laptop from the government like most other schools. The school serves a very poor area and many of the children in the school are tribals. We only send a computer teacher to the schools.

Here are some photos of the laptop donation and children using our donated laptops.

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PUMS Athipattu

This is a middle school situated in Thiruvalangadu block of Thiruvallur District. It has 82 children. Like Nallan Pillai Petral the school also has 3 really old computers which cannot be used for much. It has also received one laptop from the government like most other schools. Being a middle school we would like to introduce the children to programming etc. which was not possible given the lack of computers. We have a regular teacher at this school starting this year.

Here are some photos of the laptop donation and children using our donated laptops.

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We thank the donors for the donation of these laptops. If other donors have any laptops that are lying idle and can be put to good use, please contact us.

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