Computers 4 Africa is a social enterprise charity founded in 2005. Our aim to provide opportunities for the poor and those otherwise excluded from access to ICT education and training. In January 2011, C4A merged with Digital Pipeline, a registered charity that was originally set up as a Microsoft funded project, to test the feasibility of providing refurbished computers to schools in Namibia. Microsoft's General Manager of the Education Industry Group, Mark East, now serves as President of Digital Pipeline. The Computers 4 Africa brand has been retained as a working name for Digital Pipeline’s activities that focus on the African continent.
We collect, refurbish and data wipe used computers from individuals, private and public institutions in the UK for onward supply to Africa. To date, Computers 4 Africa has provided over 40,000 computers to sixteen different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, Computers 4 Africa has successfully converted two shipping containers into IT classrooms.
Our mission is to help lift the continent of Africa out of the poverty trap by equipping the next generation to work in a global environment.This is the 21st century version of “….teach a man to fish…..”. We do this by supplying the best value computers in the geographies where we operate. Beneficiaries pay a contribution towards the cost of preparing & shipping the equipment – but at the best price available in their locality – that is our ambition. In this way we make modern IT available to those that would otherwise never get to use a computer in their years at school.
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