10 Reasons To Donate Old Gadgets Ahead of Holidays
London, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 15 December 2016 -- In a world overwhelmed by stories like, "Is Donald Trump's hair genuine?" it's often possible to disregard those making efforts to make this planet a better place. There are billions of individuals starving, without proper nourishment, safe housing and access to essential items.
Having seen disadvantaged people in the in large cities looking for a roof over their heads, and any stable work so they can get their lives back on track we often don't consider is their access to the Internet. This need is often overlooked causing further social end digital exclusion.
SocialBox.Biz a London UK based social enterprise is gathering those no longer required laptops and tablets from corporate workplaces and guarantees they are adequately reused and some re-homed to those in need.
Here are the 10-advantages emerging from laptop donations:
1. It helps the earth.
It's absolutely damaging to our planet when portable computer workstations end up in landfills. They never completely break-down, risky fluids can gather and cause harm to the environment.
2. It helps resource preservation.
A great deal of metals and chemicals go into the production of laptops, palmtops, tablets, PCs, switches, and servers. Gathering these metals hurts the earth. They are a limited resourced; so reusing them forestalls pointless misuse of such precious materials.
3. It supports Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Reusing laptops and corporate workstations PCs helps form partnership's with the local community. With CSR going up, customers will pay heed and buy from "green" organisations.
4. It spares firm's cash.
Donating and re-using before recycling old but still working laptops can reduce costs giving IT departments spare cash.
5. It helps the disadvantaged.
SocialBox.Biz's "Laptops donation initiatives" guarantees that some of these excess laptops and tablets are re-homed to the ones that need it most.
6. It helps the economy.
Giving disadvantaged individuals and groups group access to the Internet will bolster them to add to the workforce. Without online access one can not access many employment opportunities. Lack of access to PCs can likewise bring about social and digital exclusion.
7. It helps the unemployed.
SocialBox.Biz is ensuring donations of disused business laptops gets in the hands of those most needy. Such a variety of laptops and tablets are replaced each year in favour of more up to date ones.
8. It boosts longer term sustainable growth
Helping disadvantaged people into the work guarantees a more steady future and stable job market. The lower the unemployment rate, the more advantages are there for the economy.
9. It helps society as a whole.
Reusing and donating laptops helps society. Sparing resources, saving the earth, and bringing disadvantaged people out of social exclusion benefits all of society.
10. It helps the local community.
Permitting more individuals online will bring communities closer and unite groups. Internet access provides truly necessary data and tackles the issue of digital exclusion.
What is Digital Inclusion?
It is the capacity for a person to have access to the online world. Whether it be through a cell phone, portable PC, tablet, or PC, one of these costly electronic things are required, in addition to Internet/WiFi. Most disadvantaged people, homeless, pensioners, and families on low income no method for creating a resume, applying for most employments, and accessing other online resources.
SocialBox.Biz as a social enterprise innovation based startup working out of London is determined to give Digital Inclusion to UK's homeless and other disadvantaged groups. The London-based social enterprise is asking firms and organisations to consider donating no longer needed but still working laptops and other devices to local causes.
Donation boxes
SocialBox.Biz provides donation boxes for disused laptops and they organise cleaning of them, setting them up for donation, and transporting them to disadvantaged people. By joining forces with other local charitable groups they have "Laptop Handover events".
Access to the internet is turning out to be progressively vital and by using technology they are able to redistribute older technology into appreciative hands that would generally have no such opportunity.
The London startup is soliciting everybody to consider what kind from technological device they can donate.
For more visit:
https://www.socialbox.biz/digital-inclusion/
Peter Paduh, SocialBox.biz, +44 843 289 5722, [email protected]
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