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Triplets among latest pupils to get laptops... thanks to YOU

To the delight of one secondary school’s pupils – especially some excitable triplets – the Mail Force van has made its latest delivery of laptops.

Mail Force has now raised a whopping £10.6millon for the Computers for Kids campaign in just three weeks, to help lockdown pupils struggling to follow online classes.

The charity has had a sensational boost with a video appeal fronted by David Beckham and 29 other famous British faces going viral – reaching some 123million social media users.

In Southampton, 12-year-old triplets Sandra, Daniel and Manuel Naduvila were beaming ear to ear as they received their hi-tech goodies earlier this week.

Their mother Jubi, a hospital healthcare assistant who works night shifts, said: ‘It’s crazy at the moment. There’s no school, they can’t really go out, we have got just one computer, the triplets were just getting used to secondary school and now they are trying to learn on their phones.’

She added: ‘They need more than that, because they can’t submit their work on phones. on a computer, you can save and organise work properly.’

Her husband Abey, who is a kitchen worker at Hampshire County Council, added: ‘Thank you for this laptop donation. It will really help us.’

Mail Force has donated seven top-of-the-range Microsoft Surface 2 Go tablets for families of Saint George Catholic College in Southampton, Hampshire, on top of 75 laptops handed to the comprehensive school by the Department for Education.

Head teacher James Habberley said: ‘We are incredibly grateful for the donation from the Daily Mail. We’ve had a number of students who have been struggling with remote learning, because they’ve only had one device between a large family... We have already allocated all our donations from the DfE, so this has come at a really important moment for us, and we’re very grateful to readers who have donated these laptops. Thank you very much.’

The Mail Force campaign aims to help fix the ‘digital divide’ blighting hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren unable to follow their online lessons.

Some of Britain’s biggest stars including David Beckham, David Walliams, Stephen Fry, Dame

Emma Thompson, Naomi Campbell, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Ian McKellen have all backed Mail Force, along with all six living Prime Ministers and all the main teaching unions.