In the Media
“It’s illegal to throw out electronics in many states. Yet more than fifty million tons of the stuff is produced every year and only twenty per cent of it is formally recycled. (If you like to measure everything in the Eiffel Tower, that’s the equivalent of about five thousand of them.) Better to give your old tech items to World Computer Exchange, an organization that refurbishes computers and then donates them to schools, libraries, community centers, and hospitals in developing countries.”
- Patricia Marx
- The New Yorker
…World Computer Exchange has been working for the last seven months to put together the two shipments that leave for Latin America on Friday… the computers are “life-changing.”
“We have outdated equipment that’s coming out all the time and this is a great way for Walgreens to give back…”
“Former employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) donated nearly 300 laptops and 60 smartphones through a device drive that is now supplying schools and nonprofit groups overseas.”
Hear from our community.
WCE is a global movement to make the world a better place.
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Our work turns trash into treasure and gives them to people in need. It always makes me feel that I am a part of something greater than myself.
- Alice Yu
- Volunteer, Massachusetts
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The computers and materials received from WCE add value and enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Also, the Inspire Girls project is more stimulating and engaging because youth are able to acquire more 21st century skills than in a classroom environment.
- Misheck Mutuzana
- Field Associate, Zambia
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WCE is uniquely positioned to address the chronic problem of a lack of working computers and technical understanding to maintain them in schools for children who need them most to learn.
- Robb Rill
- Board Member
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Modern education is impossible without digital devices. Hence we need to make technology easily accessible.
- Mulugeta Assefa
- Field Associate, Ethiopia
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Students in Primary and Secondary Schools fear pursuing careers in technology due to the lack of nearby and affordable computer centers.
- Beatrice Nyinawingeli
- Inspire Girls Teacher, Rwanda