'A really good news story': Cork students repaired laptops to send to school in Tanzania

Pupils of Kinsale Community School repaired 18 'end-of-life' laptops to send to Tanzanian students who had never before seen a computer

Group awards winners KCS Tanzania Team 24 from Kinsale Community School at the West Cork Garda Youth Awards 2024, in association with SuperValu and media partners the Irish Examiner at Dunmore House hotel. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

For a class of Tanzanian pupils, it was the first time they had seen, let alone held or used, a computer in their entire lives.

However, this has all changed thanks to innovative students of Kinsale Community School, who undertook a project repairing 18 "end-of-life" laptops at their school.