Following an idea from its environmental planner Vicky Broucke, Foxley Tagg is delighted to help a locally based Charity, IT Schools Africa, to help transform IT education in Africa. By donating computers and keyboards to the scheme Foxley Tagg will play a small part in helping to improve the prospects of hundreds of thousands of children by equipping them with IT skills and enhance the teaching of other subjects by computer aided learning.

Vicky said ‘After spending some time in Uganda as part of a similar educational project I have a strong appreciation for the work undertaken by ITSA and the positive contribution it makes to the lives of individuals in Africa. I am pleased that Foxley Tagg could make a small contribution to this worthy cause.’

The process does not end there, these computers will typically have a useful life five years and at the end of this period the charity will collect the computers and send them to a facility in South Africa for complete recycling.

ITSA has to date distributed over 20,000 computers to over 1,000 schools in Africa, including schools in Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zanzibar and supported this effort with training over 500 African teachers in IT while establishing new programmes in Egypt, Tanzania and Madagascar.

Simon Richardson from IT Schools Africa commented “IT Schools Africa is very grateful for the donation of computer equipment from FT Planning and your support for the work of our Charity. By donating your old computers and monitors you are helping to improve the education of many thousands of children in some of the poorest countries on the African continent”.

If you are interested in supporting the scheme please contact IT schools on 01242 228800 or via email to info@itschoolsafrica.org.