The Electronic Recycling Association has teamed up with the Calgary Board of Education (CBE). ERA is providing a laptop program to help CBE students and other students across Canada in need during COVID-19. These families do not have access to a computer or laptop at home. We recently received 5 laptops from a CBE teacher who asked if we could data wipe the laptops, install windows 10 and donate the 5 laptops back to the teacher to help several families in need complete their children’s homework.
For more information about CBE and how to gain access to technology, go to their website here.
With the new generated demand created by COVID-19, ERA has introduced a new program called “Lending a Lifeline by Lending a Laptop”. This program is built to help families and organizations that are in need of devices at home. Throughout the last couple of weeks, ERA has seen their list of requests go from tens to hundreds in such a short period of time.
Many companies are closing their doors and having their employees work from home. The Electronic Recycling Association with this increased demand for technology will eventually run out of devices to donate. They are encouraging as many organizations and companies as possible to send a percentage of their unwanted or used electronic devices to the nearest ERA depot. This will help aid their program and hopefully help hundreds possibly thousands of individuals in need at this time.
ERA is still accepting shipments of donations and their depots are still accepting drop-offs of technology. ERA can pick up donations from essential businesses at this time only.
