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About Us
As the name Peppercorn
suggests,
Peppercorn is about small beginnings.
We take what is seen as small and unneeded by some, but which can have great value for others.
We work closely with TECC – The Ethical Computer Centre project, who since 1999 have been developing a local community computer re-use, services and training resource in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Since we started in 1999, donations of computers and other IT equipment, no longer wanted by organisations and individuals in the North Staffordshire area, to Peppercorn/TECC have already become life-changing for communities locally and in many developing countries. By giving your redundant IT equipment to us, you can help to improve the prospects of disadvantaged people in many ways:
We take what is seen as small and unneeded by some, but which can have great value for others.
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"If
you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito". |
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We work closely with TECC – The Ethical Computer Centre project, who since 1999 have been developing a local community computer re-use, services and training resource in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
Since we started in 1999, donations of computers and other IT equipment, no longer wanted by organisations and individuals in the North Staffordshire area, to Peppercorn/TECC have already become life-changing for communities locally and in many developing countries. By giving your redundant IT equipment to us, you can help to improve the prospects of disadvantaged people in many ways:
- In schools, computers give pupils, especially disabled pupils, the opportunity to learn IT skills that can give them a realistic opportunity of proper employment when they graduate. IT equipment also gives pupils the ability to communicate outside their own communities, whether by e-mail or on the web.
- Small businesses may be kick-started by the supply of a computer, which will generate real employment. For developing countries to have a realistic prospect of participating in the world economy, more and more of their population will have to be computer literate – redundant IT equipment from the "developed world" can help to this end.
- Community groups can provide access to computers for:
- adult education classes, to give older learners an opportunity to participate in the IT revolution;
- after-school IT clubs, so that pupils are not constrained by school hours or by the huge size of their classes.
- The day-to-day operation of healthcare facilities, by improving access to patient records or by giving the opportunity to share expertise between professionals.
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 Children at
the Masindi Centre for the Handicapped, Uganda, learning IT
skills on computers donated by North Staffs businesses, July 2004. |
Who are we?
We are whoever can contribute in whatever way:
We are whoever can contribute in whatever way:
- supplying the computers and other IT equipment which can be re-used,
- helping refurbish the computers and other IT equipment ready for re-use,
- being the active link with the re-users further afield,
- making the transport happen from here to there,
- helping train and support the people receiving the equipment,
- coming up with time, effort, ideas and money to help it all happen.
We are also the North Staffs World Development Action Group. NSWDAG have adopted Peppercorn as a real project of international fair trade and aid. This is because Peppercorn provides what is small and unneeded by some, but which can help the powerless, poorest communities to help themselves. Peppercorn is a clear example of a project that operates in the spirit of the Fairtrade movement.
You are welcome to join us.
