Her First Laptop
The Need
Young women in Ghanaian universities contact us asking for the same thing. Not fees, not advice. A laptop. 20 such requests reached us. They are studying, and they are sharing a phone screen or queuing for a campus lab to do it.
What Your Gift Does
Every amount covers a stage of the work, not the purchase of a computer.
How It Works
From a company's fleet refresh to her desk.
A company retires a machine
Banks, telecoms companies and mining firms refresh their laptop fleets every three to four years. We collect what they retire.
We sanitise and refurbish it
Every drive is wiped to a certified standard. Parts are replaced, the machine is reimaged, and it passes a full quality check.
She applies and is selected
Applications are reviewed by a panel on a published cycle, against published criteria.
She earns full ownership
The laptop is hers to keep once she completes her training track and 300 teaching other young people what she has learned.
Loan-to-own
This is not a giveaway. Every laptop is issued on a 12-month agreement and becomes hers outright when she has completed her training track and her teaching hours. Your donation covers sanitisation, parts, licensing, logistics and a year of support — not the purchase of a computer, because the computer was already built.
Where the Machines Come from
Powered by the IT for Youth Laptop Bank.
Her First Laptop is powered by the IT for Youth Laptop Bank, which collects, sanitises and refurbishes retired corporate equipment across Ghana.