ENFIELD Council is to make use of its 600 stockpile of old computers by giving them to underprivileged children in the third world.o
The council, which has joined forces with the Finsbury Park-based charity, Computer Aid, will donate more than 50 computers a month to schools, colleges and groups in underdeveloped countries.
The charity will recondition the computers for future use.
The stockpile of redundant computers was costing the council £1,100 a month in storage because of an lease/purchase agreement with a finance company.
But now the lease is broken, the charity will be able to prepare the computers for use in the third world.
Council spokesman Roger Chisnoll said: " More than one million computers are dumped in landfill sites across the country every year and it is criminal that schools across the world in developing countries cannot get access to them."
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