How can you get involved?
Join the challenge
Have a laptop no longer in use?
Youth in vulnerable neighbourhoods need your help.
Does your organization have laptops that are no longer in use? Greenwin Cares. and our partners at Toronto Police Service’s 31 Division will refurbish and donate them to kids facing a lack of resources and access to the necessary technology to learn and socialize online.
Let us know you have laptops to donate
Laptops will be picked up by Greenwin Cares
Laptops will be sanitized & refurbished by Greenwin Cares certified refurbisher
Refurbished laptops will be donated to Toronto youth identified as in-need by Toronto Police Services
You've given a new life to a gently preloved laptops while supporting Toronto youth!
Join the challenge
Donate one or more used laptops and Laptops For Learning will refurbish them back to top-quality for students in need.
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Donate new laptops
and Laptops For Learning will ensure they get into the hands of youth who need them.
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Make a monetary donation
which will go towards purchasing additional laptops and refurbishing donated ones. Tax receipts will be given for monetary donations over $50.
To donate a laptop
70%
of adolescents had clinically depressive symptoms
SickKids confirms that children & youth experienced worsening mental health during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns. This has stayed consistent throughout the pandemic. This wave will undoubtedly exacerbate these findings.
2,000
laptops and counting
2,000 laptops are being donated by Greenwin Corp. to students struggling with accessing technology.
25%
don't have internet access
of people who don’t have Internet access are limited because they don’t have a device that can connect.
Information for donors: data protection
Pre-used donated laptops will be professionally refurbished and restored by our approved third party refurbisher. For your comfort, you have options to ensure data security and protection:
Our certified refurbisher will permanently erase all data on file using a hard drive wiping machine.
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Our certified refurbisher will destroy and dispose of your hard drives and install new ones.
Remove your hard drives on your own prior to donating and our certified refurbisher will install new ones.
- Laptop donations valued over $1,000 will receive a tax receipt.
- This external USB 3.0 sanitizer dock supports nine industry-recognized erase modes including Quick Erase, Single and Multi-pass Overwrites, Custom Erase, Secure Erase and Enhanced Secure Erase. The Multi-pass Overwrite (3-Pass Full Disk Overwrite) erase procedures meet the requirements of DoD (5220.22-M) standards.
Source: Mapping Toronto’s Digital Divide