Have you got a disfunctional mouse or an out-of-date computer you're dying to up-grade? It's time to clear out that desk-top clutter and rather than dropping it off at the rubbish dump there's a charity organisation for the disabled dying to take it off your hands.
Technical Aid for the Disabled (TAD) is encouraging individuals and corporate groups in NSW to sift through their obsolete computer equipment in time for TADDAY 2000 - when the organisation hopes to accumulate anything from mouse pads to monitors to be recycled into the hands of its disabled clients.
"We're literally beggars so we can't choose the computers we receive," TAD's development officer, Julijana Trifunovic, told ZDNet.
However, TAD hopes donations will include 486s or better and preferably working systems.
"The service has really changed people's lives," Trifunovic said. "That's the good part of the story."
However, limited volunteer resources - mainly retired technicians that come in once a week to test, sort and repair equipment - and a six-month waiting list of up to 300 disabled clients, is the real story behind the venture.
TAD, which accepts computer cast-offs year-round, received a bumper round-up of donations around the time of last year's TADDAY when about 200 people came along and contributed over 1000 pieces of equipment.
Annually, the organisation has approximately 2000 pieces of equipment donated.
TAD currently has 850 disabled clients using its refurbished computer rejects and for a one-off AU$60 charge to the client looks after the on-going servicing of the equipment.
"It's a wonderful opportunity for people with a disability to have access to a computer," Trifunovic said.
You can drop off your donations at TADDAY 2000 on November 25, between 9am and 3pm in the grounds of the Royal Rehabilitation Centre in Ryde.
Can you please tell me where I can donate an unwanted computer, moniter and printer? This article sounds as though they dont want them anymore.