Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Appeal for donations
Used mobile phones and tablets needed by group
The Angus Appeal — Phones and Tablets for Digital Classrooms, was launched a few weeks ago.
The group is asking people to donate old and unwanted mobile phones or tablets to be used to teach children in European refugee camps.
The items will then be sent to Equator — a Glasgow-based organisation — which will distribute them around camps, along with projectors and other digital classroom aids.
Fredlina Thompson-Clewry was evacuated from her home country Sierra Leone at the age of just four.
Now 21, she is joining forces with other volunteers to collect equipment to be used in classrooms for refugee children.
Fredlina said: “I moved to Scotland from Sierra Leone when I was four years old — we were lucky to be evacuated.
“I know first-hand the difference that education can make. It can make or break people’s lives.
“I am so grateful that I was given that opportunity.”
Fiona Mohammden, who formerly headed the charity Multicultural Angus, said that some of the children in refugee camps were missing years of education due to a lack of teachers.
She said that the wider Digital Classroom initiative — which was started in Glasgow by Equator — meant that the young people wouldn’t fall behind.
Fiona added that, as well as donations, the group hoped that businesses in the area could lend support by offering to repair broken equipment or to become a drop-off point for the electrical items.
For more information, visit facebook. com/pg/AngusAppealforDigital Classrooms.
A TAYSIDE group led by a woman who fled civil war in Sierra Leone has launched a campaign to ensure kids in refugee camps don’t fall behind in their education.