Camara Education is offering FREE recycling to any household looking to dispose of unwanted computers for the month of  January.

Camara has drop off centres in Chapelizod Industrial  Estate, Dublin 20 and Townsend Enterprise Park, Townsend Street,  Belfast. For more information, call 01 6522671

Camara Education, a  social enterprise and charity, specialises in the re-use of computers  to educate children in disadvantaged schools in sub-Saharan Africa,  Jamaica and Ireland. Camara Education refurbishes computers sourced from  Irish businesses, government departments and individuals, loads them  with educational software and distributes them to disadvantaged schools.  This enables thousands of marginalised communities’ an opportunity to  break the cycle of poverty they find themselves in.

To date Camara has dispatched over 27,000 computers in this way,  improving education for over half a million disadvantaged children and  giving them the opportunity to acquire the digital literacy skills  needed for the 21st century.

This year alone the charity has processed and shipped over 9,000  computers as the demand for affordable technology increases year on  year. Currently Camara’s partner Hub in Kenya has 200 under-resourced  schools on a waiting list to receive Camara computers and training. A  similar situation is seen by Camara’s partner Hubs in Zambia, Ethiopia,  Lesotho and Jamaica.

Due to this ever growing demand, Camara is offering a free computer recycling option for the Irish public in January. With Camara, each computer that is sent abroad has a positive educational impact for at least 10 disadvantaged children each year. Each computer also defers the release of 650kg of CO2 emissions.

By donating your used printer cartridges, iPods, digital cameras and mobile phones you can help raise valuable funds for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin. Your generous donations will help raise much needed funds for the Children’s Medical and Research Foundation at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin

What Next? Contact the Appeal online, by phone or by email.

Online: Visit www.recyclingappeal.ie/chatterbox . Enter what you have to be collected, fill in your details and submit.  One of their customer care team will be in touch to arrange a collection.

Phone: Call 1800 933 616 and a member of their team will arrange a collection.

A full list of the items that they can recycle are listed their price list which can be found at www.recyclingappeal.ie.

Email: Contact them at info@recyclingappeal.ie

We would like to wish Richard Greene and the rest of the Willow Cancer Caring team, the very best of luck in their 200km charity cycle for cancer. We were more than happy to purchase a spot on their team jersey and If anyone else would like to sponsor  or make any enquiries to the charity, just let us know . The event takes place on Friday 04th & Saturday 05th of September and the course goes from Dublin to Carlingford and back. Good luck to everyone!