HOLLISTON, Mass., Jan. 18, 2010 — Imagine that you're a young marine that has been wounded in Afghanistan and are sent back to Walter Reed hospital to recover. You're 700 miles from home, family, and friends. You're faced with pain, uncertainty, loneliness, and a long recovery.
Laptops for the Wounded saw the need and responded with a program to provide laptops for wounded servicemen and women. With the laptops the wounded vets can reach out to family and friends via email, instant messaging, or even for live conversation with built in webcams. The program is now active in 8 hospitals across the US with the hopes of expanding dramatically in 2010.
"One of the challenges in developing a program to provide laptop computers to wounded veterans was finding a source for dependable and inexpensive laptops," said Phil Drouin, founder of Laptops for the Wounded. "That's where Computer Recycling USA came in." Computer Recycling USA (http://www.computerrecyclingusa.com) has developed a network of corporations nationwide that choose to donate or sell their out-of-service laptop computers knowing that the laptops will be used to help our armed forces who have sacrificed so greatly for our country.
Computer Recycling USA accepts the laptops, erases the data that is contained on the hard drive, refurbishes the laptop computer and ships it out to Laptops for the Wounded. Computer Recycling USA will also accept other technology with residual value like servers and networking equipment and direct a portion of the proceeds from the sale of that equipment to Laptops for the Wounded.
If you or your organization would like to learn more or make a donation please contact:
Rocco D'Amico
Computer Recycling USA
860-274-6761
Email
Phil Drouin
Laptops for the Wounded
860- 463-2885
Email
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