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‘Donate Your Own Device’ campaign to support

students worldwide, promote sustainability

• 18 Mar 2024

The Digital School has trained over 2,500 digital teachers and provides educational and training content in four
languages: Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.

The Digital School, one of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Global Initiatives, announced that
the "Donate Your Own Device” campaign, which was launched in cooperation with the
Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), under the theme "Donate to Educate," managed to
collect more than 32,000 used electronic devices, which will be refurbished and
recycled, to support underprivileged students of the Digital School worldwide with
devices that support their digital education journey.

The announcement of the campaign’s achievements came in line with "Global Recycling
Day," on March 18, which highlights the importance of this global initiative and its
multiple humanitarian, educational, and environmental goals, reflecting the leading role
of the UAE in achieving the UNSDGs, preserving the environment through recycling,
and providing access to education for students around the world.

Electronic devices included 36 per cent computers, tablets and smartphones, 30 per
cent other electronic devices such as screens, printers and projectors, and 34 per cent
electronic devices accessories, which are refurbished or recycled in an environmentally

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