e-Daan

Smartphone, laptops, tablets, desktops, printers, projectors and cameras are donated at our ‘Device Collection centers’ located across the country. Till date, the Council has collated 5,00 such devices which is distributed to 20-30 education public access points at the rural and urban poor areas, where children can come and interact with their facilitators online at the pre-scheduled time. The aim is to replicate this model across 1000 locations and 10,000 villages to have community learning. It also envisions community-wide access, inclusion and widespread education especially for the girls as they are the worst affected by the shift to online schooling. 

Not only this but our campaign is also aimed to solve the E-waste problem thus solving both educational and environmental problem.  According to the global reports, World’s E-Waste has grown by 33% in 2017. Some 20 to 50 million metric tonnes of e-waste are generated worldwide every year, comprising more than 5% of all municipal solid waste. When millions of computers purchased around the world every year become obsolete they leave behind lead, cadmium, mercury and other hazardous wastes. As a baby step to address the magnanimous global issue of e-waste, Upskills Learning Council (ULC) has implemented a initiative to invite donors and IT companies to donate used computers to our centers. In India, millions of computers and laptops are dumped every day, informal processing of electronic waste may cause serious health and pollution problems, as these countries have limited regulatory oversight of e-waste processing. Your one humble step in this direction can help Digital Divided to get access to technology and scale up the operations in areas of education and health infrastructure in the backward areas and villages.

By donating your old computers or smartphones you will be making an important step towards bridging the digital divide. In today’s world every person and organisation have to keep pace with the technological changes. Thus, throwing away your old smartphones, desktops and laptops in favour of the latest model is the in-thing. But there are many children in India like the ones residing in the rural areas of India who have not even seen a computer. To help such children with digital education, Upskills Learning Council (ULC) has started this campaign to help and promote E-Learning.

In order to make this campaign successful and promote growth and learning of the poor children who have big dreams, we look forward to hearing from you.

We are urgently appealing to donate smartphones and electronic gadgets i.e. desktop, laptop, tablets, camera and printer for underprivileged gifted children of government school in India.

Like so many countries across the world affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, schools in India have closed. It is uncertain when they will reopen however school children are encouraged to continue their studies online.

Providing a secure and hopeful future of our beneficiary-students is paramount. Therefore, to ensure that the children supported by our education programmes (as well as the wider community) are able to study online, we are seeking donations of up to 1,5000 smartphones and tablets.

Education is key to breaking the cycle of poverty and being part of the school system provides our students not only with knowledge and a support group but most important of all, hope for the future.

We are all feeling anxious at the moment, especially the school children. When the Department of Education announced that online learning would be the main source of education in India, we received concerning messages from families and children asking how they will be able to continue school without the technology or access to online learning.

Our team in India is currently seeking donations of used Apple and Android mobile/ cell phones and tablets that can connect to the internet; OR cash donations so they can purchase reconditioned smartphones in India.