Members of Clitheroe Rotary have expressed their thanks to all those people who donated unloved IT equipment to its IT Schools Africa project.
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The seed for IT Schools Africa (ITSA) was sown as an old computer was thrown into a skip.
Monis Khalifa, ITSA’s IT manager, watched as the computer was dumped and thought to himself is there not a better way to recycle old computers? He mentioned this to his friend Michael Ratcliffe, and between the two of them, they decided that there definitely was a better way – to send them to African schools!
Subsequently, ITSA was established in 2004 with operations starting the following year with the renovation of a warehouse in Cheltenham. And it was from there the first used computers were shipped in a container to Africa.
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