The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) is pleased to support Portail de l’Immigrant Association with 3 refurbished laptops. The devices will be used to offer online programs to the association’s youth during this COVID-19 pandemic.
“Thanks again for the donation today, this really helps out our clients and our organization during this time!” exclaimed After School Coordinator Michelle Mendez Holmes.
Portail de l’Immigrant Association services help to increase personal, social, and leadership skills. Every interaction of their staff is aimed at making life easier for newcomers to Canada.
In 2008, in Calgary, there was no Francophone organization dedicated to promoting cultural communities and thus facilitating the integration of immigrants from these communities. That year, this group of friends sat down to discuss what they could do to make a difference. This is how a conversation between friends gave birth to an organization that today improves the lives of youth, women, and families in Calgary.
For more information about Portail de l’Immigrant Association please visit their website here.
The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 to address the growing problem of e-waste and the increasing ‘digital divide’. For over fifteen years, ERA has offered simple solutions to help individuals and organizations prevent operational equipment from premature destruction. With a focus on recovery, refurbishment and reuse, ERA continuously supplies charitable groups with donated IT equipment while securely managing the retiring IT assets of organizations and individuals across Canada.
We believe that reuse before recycling is critical in managing the waste created by computer hardware, and by offering industry-leading data destruction for all equipment we receive, we have securely repurposed hundreds of tons of equipment. Because not everything ERA receives can be reasonably repurposed, we have partnered with certified recycling organizations to process equipment that has reached the end of its productive life.
The Electronic Recycling Association is committed to making electronic recycling beneficial for everyone including the environment! If you have any leftover electronic devices that you no longer need, or are not working as it should be, then we will take them off your hands, refurbish them, before giving them to charities across Canada. Book a pickup or find a drop off depot near you in one of our 7 locations Canada wide.