Toronto, ON

WCE Toronto Chapter

Contact

Status

NOT Accepting Dropoffs Contact the email address above as our WCE-Canada volunteers sometimes are able to pick-up larger quantities.

Seeking new space to store and test computers, please let us know if you have any ideas for space!

News

July 15, 2008:  Nissan is donating 190 working Pentium 3 and above computers to WCE.  These will be taken to Ottawa to be consolidated with computers being collected there to be part of their next container shipment.

May 26, 2008:  Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute, a high school in Toronto, recently gathered 15 working Pentium 3 and above computers as part of their campaign put together for their grade 12 Canadian and World Issues class. They have taken on the issue of technology (computer) aid in third world countries and have chosen the World Computer Exchange as their partner organization to help these computers reach those countries.  "We were searching for an organization that could help us with our class campaign when we came across the World Computer Exchange website. After reading through what the organization does, we agreed that this was the best choice. Some of the other organizations we located did not provide us with the information we were looking for but thankfully we found it here"  said Amal Omar.

Volunteering

We need volunteers from Toronto to help to accomplish the following five tasks:

• Pick-up, inventory, test and pack donated used computers
• Coordinate public computer donation events, speakers bureau and press releases 
• Recruit participation of local universities and high schools (for community service, pairings, interns and eCorps trips)
• Raise Sponsorship funds to help WCE Partners with the last 1/3 of the sourcing and shipping costs (this includes Rotary)
• Recruit volunteers to help with Chapter & field work or to be an eCorps tech volunteer or staff a youth Internet camp

Honor Roll of Donors

• Nissan Canada
• Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute