“Our biggest dream is that we don’t need distance learning – that pupils can return to schools and in-person learning. But safety is the number one priority. So we have to build the shelters and equip schools and families with the ability to access remote learning.”
Roksolana Gamulyak, Director General of the Directorate of Digital Transformation, – Ministry of Education and Science, Ukraine
*Digital Exclusion: a modern scourge that should never have happened
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has been unsafe for children to attend school in many parts of the country. In the most dangerous areas, children learn from home. With the support of charitable organisations, the Ukrainian government has established hundreds of Digital Learning Centres in frontline and border areas – classrooms within safe shelters where children can attend some classes and participate in extra curricula activities.
So there is a huge need for computers for distance learning, both to equip bomb-shelter schools and for internally displaced families who have lost everything. Access to a device means access to education for this war-stricken generation of children.
Reusing IT started delivering computers into Ukraine very soon after the start of the war, with our logistics partner charity Yorkshire Aid. Several shipments of laptops was followed by a formal request from the Ministry of Education and Science for Reusing IT to deliver laptops direct to Kyiv to support their “unbreakable education” programme.
Since 2022, we have sent [number] devices to Ukraine and this continues (2025) to be our main focus.
Watch the documentary of one of our trips into Kyiv.
Produced by Yorkshire Aid, “Silent Night” uniquely documents the delivery of 2500 desperately-needed laptops and humanitarian aid into Kyiv in March 2024. It shows the challenges faced by volunteers getting life-saving aid into Ukraine, and the impact it has on them and on the war-ravaged lives they touch.
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