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School facilities

"Most of South Africa's 32,000 schools have no libraries or laboratories. Most pupils have to study with too few desks and chairs, and without enough textbooks. School buildings are often ramshackle buildings that are unsafe for educational purposes."

Child poverty

"Around 121 million children, the majority of them girls, do not attend school and are denied their right to an education."

Educational need

"[In Africa] 15,000 schools do not yet have electricity supplied. [This means] no photocopiers, or other equipment, so essential in modern education, can be used. 17,000 schools do not have telephones. 10,000 schools have no running water."

About 20,000 schools [in South Africa], with 10 million pupils, have no libraries and few books

"About 20,000 schools [in South Africa], with 10 million pupils, have no libraries and few books, even if they do have shelves." Community H.E.A.R.T.

Wasted computers

Every year in the UK over 3 million fully functioning computers are thrown out and most of them end up in landfill sites, and it is estimated that over 50 million are dumped throughout the world. But even today there are still 40% of UK households that do not have a computer, which means that...

Access to HIV prevention information and services

"Only about one in five people at risk for HIV have access to prevention information and services".

Medical supplies surplus

"In the United States...hospitals discard more than 2,000 tons of usable medical surplus supplies every year, allowing perfectly good medical materials to enter the waste stream."