Good afternoon,



There are a number of organizations that would love to take your laptop either to use within their organization or to give to a client.



There are Independent Centres in most provinces, I believe all provinces, that would certainly take this donation and likely they will work with a client.



An example would be the North Saskatchewan Independent Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 



This organization has a small area for individuals to come in and use, at no charge, their internet. They even have desktops and laptops for clients to use. They have just outfitted a unit with Fusion (JAWS and ZoomText) so that a person who is blind or partially sighted can utilize this service.



A donated laptop could go to something like this or it could go to a client that would be in need of such a device.



Just do a google for Independent Centre in your province.



If not let me know your province or City where you are and I will send you what you need to contact them.



Robin East

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Hi all,

Don't know if anyone can help me, but I'm going to ask anyway. My old laptop is just collecting dust on my desk, but it's still a perfectly good machine for someone who doesn't care about having the latest and gratest in terms of computers. Now I know there's Computers for the Blind in Texas, but as I live in Canada I worry about what it would cost to ship it to them. Does anyone know of anywhere closer where I could donate my laptop too? I'm not interested in selling it because I don't know how much  I'd get for it, plus I know that there are many people especially visually impaired people who can't afford a brand-new computer so if I could donate it to somewhere so that it could go to someone who really needs/wants a good machine then I'd love to do that. Hope someone can help me!!! Thanks Madison





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