A unique public and private collaboration held over April 16, 17 to collect and recycle computers and eWaste was an unqualified success. The project organizers’ goal was to collect 10,000 pounds of items, but they more than doubled that amount. Two significant donations from Micron Utah will likely bring the total eWaste kept out of Utah landfills close to 30,000 pounds in total.
Volunteers packed 25 huge pallets with items which will be shipped to Boise, Idaho, where they will be processed. Useable computers will be professionally wiped clean of all data, then spruced up and sent back to Utah kids who don’t have access to a computer.
A shiver of anticipation ran through the British archaeologists as they slowly descended the sand-covered steps and passed through a sealed door.
After five years excavating in the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, had feared their dream of unearthing treasures buried for 3,000 years was doomed.
Now, on this day in November 1922, the pair believed they might, in fact, be on the brink of a remarkable discovery.
Digging through a rubble-filled passageway, they came across a second door. Cutting a small hole in it, Carter nervously held a candle to the opening.
Possessing an unsurpassed instinct for public opinion, Alfred Harmsworth s mission was to deliver bright, invigorating, news into millions of homes. To do this, he adhered to a set of fundamental principles. Inform and amuse. Hold forceful views. Embrace family, common sense, sound money and patriotism
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Among those to already benefit is Ramonjit Parmar, 11, who has had minimal access to the family computer at home because her sister has priority as an A-level student
Mail Force has received another stunning boost of more than £200,000 as the nationwide initiative to deliver laptops to schoolchildren hits top gear.
Experian, the consumer credit reporting company, and charity donation website The Big Give have raised the money together.
It lifts the running total of donations in cash and computer pledges from generous Daily Mail readers, philanthropists and corporations to an astonishing £12.1million.
Experian matched every £1 donated – up to a generous £100,100 – to the Computers for Kids campaign on The Big Give.
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Isle Of Wight Housebuilder Launches New Charitable Foundation
By Jamie White
Barratt and David Wilson Homes are marking building their 500,000th home by launching a new Charitable Foundation.
The housebuilders, which are bringing new homes to the Isle of Wight, have launched the new Barratt Developments PLC Charitable Foundation with a £500,000 charitable donation.
The new Foundation (www.barrattfoundation.org.uk) will bring together Barratt’s charitable activity under one organisation and will provide a long-term strategy to the company’s charitable giving.