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Recycling computers responsibly in our global community!
Computer Drives
Wings for West Africa helps schools, churches and
community groups to organize and conduct computer collection drives.
Unusable equipment is turned over to Work Force, Inc., a non-profit
which trains ex-offenders to break down and recycle the component parts.
Help provided by Wings as needed:
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Providing flyers,
Power Point presentations, signs and other materials
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Attending meetings
or make presentations
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Publicizing the
drive in the media
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Helping with the
logistics of collecting and sorting equipment before and
during the drive
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Providing tax
donation forms to donors
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Arranging for
prompt removal of all equipment at the end of the drive
For more information please contact Susie Seal,
Promotions Director at:
Susie@wafwings.org or (317) 445-0788
Organizations that have conducted computer drives for
Wings:
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Noblesville High School
Noblesville, IN
December 2009 |
A computer drive was held at Noblesville High School
under the direction of Ted Ringle,
Noblesville HS Recycling Club sponsor.
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church
Indianapolis, IN
November 2009
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Religious education students at St.
Thomas Aquinas helped to unload and sort equipment donated
at the drive.
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Holy Spirit at Geist Church
Fishers, IN
May 2009
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Parishioner Nathan Rues (background) coordinated a very successful drive with plans for another in the near
future.
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Cathedral High School
Indianapolis, IN
May 2009
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French teacher and World Language Department
Chair
Gary Spurgin directed a group of his French
students in
the collection of computers as part of a
cultural unit
focused on West Africa.
Unitarian Universalist Church
Indianapolis, IN
April 2009 |
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Drive coordinator Nancy Cobb amid equipment
collected in a joint effort with a group of
Sunday school students at her church
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Indianapolis, IN
April 2009 |
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Wings president, Kathleen Lattimer
helps Donna Zeirdt,
computer drive co-coordinator to load
equipment advertised in three neighboring Episcopal churches.
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North Central High School
Indianapolis, IN
March 2009
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The NCHS EcoImpact Club directed by Anna
Grace Sterry and Lexie Isaacs organized an
extremely successful drive at which many Washington Township residents expressed gratitude for the opportunity to dispose of equipment in a
way that would help less advantaged students.
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Westfield Middle School
Westfield, IN
February 2009
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The WMS environmental Club co-sponsor Susan
Seal
helps to sort equipment collected at
Wing’s first
school-based computer drive. |
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