PREFACE

E-quip Africa strives to provide quality computers and school supplies to Ghanaian institutions. Our core values do not allow us to send 'junk' or items you wouldn't expect your own children to use in school. Educational functionality, appearance, wholeness are necessary qualities of all donated items.

Nonprofits and schools looking for service projects or any community/civic organization wishing to help E-quip Africa may wish to set up collection boxes in June when students in the USA clean out their desks, lockers and book bags. Instead of throwing the current year's supplies into the dumpster, why not ask students to place still usable and good looking items into boxes which will be forwarded to E-quip Africa? Please contact us for details and 'how to' instructions for this important student-to-student program.

CRITERIA

We accept personal computers from individuals* which are accompanied by a cash donation of $35.00 USD and meet the following standards:

• In good working order and attractive appearance
• Machines need to accept universal voltage (120 to 240 volts AC)
• Pentium 3 processing or better
• Hard drives at or above 10 gb
• 256mb RAM minimum
• At this time we are unable to accept printers or scanners
  

E-quip Africa will wipe information and reformat all hard drives. Upon special request we will use software conforming to the U.S. Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M obtained from Active@Killdisk which precludes the extraction of any information regardless of system.

*Please contact us concerning multiple donations from corporations or other nonprofits

Naturally educational curriculum in Ghana differs from other parts of the world, but it retains common elements found in all English speaking countries. When donating books, learning tools and reference materials, please be mindful of their value in K-12 education.

• Newer copyrights are preferred for
  • Good educational literature in the English language
  • Elementary reading texts
  • Dictionaries in print and CD format
  • Encyclopedia in CD format with 2003 or newer copyright
  • Inflatable globes & pertinent wall maps

School supplies with good use left and in good appearance i.e. no graffiti, obvious damage, teeth marks, ink stains, etc. may be collected and donated to E-quip Africa. The items listed below are examples of acceptable donations:

• New pens and pencils
• Working used pens & 4" pencils or longer
• New notebooks & paper
• Used notebooks with 50 or more unused sheets
• New markers and crayons
• Used crayons 1/2 their original length or longer
• New or used solar powered calculators in good working condition
• Metric or inch rulers
• Pencil boxes
• Backpacks & book bags