Every Laptop
Changes A Life
It is true. Laptops find jobs, education, support and family. Truly life changing.
Tech Waste And
The Digital Divide
In Australia every person generates 20 – 25 Kilograms of e-waste per year according to the The Global E-Waste Monitor 2024, this includes “electrical
and anything with a plug or a battery”.
At the same time more than 2 million people in Australia have neither devices or access to the internet.
4 million
10%
2 million
48%
What Is
The Laptop Initiative
We work with companies to distribute unwanted laptops to registered charities working with our target audiences.
These are refugees and asylum seekers, disadvantaged youth and women suffering from domestic violence enabling them to obtain education, employment, connection and income.
How Our Laptop
Donations Work
Why Become A
Corporate Hero
- Solving two problems at once
- Reduce costs
- ESG obligations ticked
- Reduce e waste
From Our Corporate Heroes
Strata Community Insurance
This amazing company creates innovative insurance solutions for residential, commercial and mixed-use strata communities and more importantly have been a wonderful Corporate Hero helping us help many others!!
Go Transit Media
We also love the GoTransit Media Group they are the revenue engine for businesses using transit out-of- home advertising, helping tell their stories directly to customers as they journey on buses, taxis, and light rail around Australia. Their creative work is amazing as are their donations to The Laptop Initiative.
Inter Public Group
The Inter Public Group have been one of our major Corporate Heroes and we love them. They view environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues as value creators for a people-driven industry. We love your work guys.
Australian Pavement Management
“It’s a simple but good concept, we regularly turnover
our laptops for our engineers ….there is always the
issue of what to do for the ones that we need to pass
on. The Laptop Initiative provides an opportunity to be
involved in social responsibility and makes sure those
laptops are reused in a worthwhile situation.”
Micromine
“Micromine is proud to a support The Laptop Initiative. It is a great way for Micromine to contribute to the community and help close the Digital Divide, it benefits the environment and is extremely motivating for our teams to be involved in this great initiative. Well done to the Laptop Initiative Team.”
Our Valued
Charity Partners
Our Charity Partners help us distribute devices around Australia far and wide.
Why – we are not social workers, case workers or at the front line – and our Charity Partners always have a wait list for devices. So unfortunately, we don’t take requests from individuals seeking laptops.
Our Charity Partners work with women escaping
domestic violence, refugees and asylum seekers and disadvantaged youth.
We like to work with smaller grass roots charities that don’t have big budgets, lots of staff or resources – a bit
like us really.
Explore Our
Strategic partnerships
Our strategic partners bring expertise, contacts and just good old morale support to make our work happen.
TekFoundation
TekFoundation helped us find an amazing IT volunteer – Marcello. Many hands make charities work and we thank Nick Shepherd and his team.
Zolo
Don’t have the time or the staff to wipe data securely – Zolo will pick up, wipe and deliver ISSO certification.
Our Heroes Wall Of Fame
No Laptops, No Worries
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News & Insights
I want to thank you for visiting our website – I know your time is valuable and life makes many demands on you.
I wish I could chat to you over coffee, share some stories and laugh. If you asked me the “why” of The Laptop Initiative I would tell you this.
A friend recently asked me to close my eyes and imagine handing a laptop to someone who was desperately trying to build a new life.
In my vision I don’t know if this person was a newly arrived refugee, a woman escaping domestic violence with her 5-year-old child or a homeless 15-year-old boy – but I saw a face.
In their eyes was the deepest emotion and gratitude – and I cannot describe to you my emotion. It was in my chest and heart – I had no word for it and maybe one doesn’t exist.
We don’t meet the recipients who receive our laptops as this part of the process is rightfully done by our amazing Charity Partners, but you know from now on, every time I am able to deliver a laptop to a charity I am going to think of this.
Thank you for listening.
