Google announces to donate $5.3 million for purchasing Chromebooks for Refugees to access Internet.
Google succeeded in raising $11m to finance relief efforts for refugees in Europe. Today, the technology business announced of donating $5.3 million to provide an opportunity to refugees in Germany to access Chrome books.
The philanthropic division of search organization (Google.org) is collaborating with non- profit organization, known as NetHope, on the venture ‘Project Reconnect’. NetHope will use the grant to purchase 25,000 Chromebooks equipped with language learning and education applications, which it will be doling out to non-profit organizations that are helping refugees in the European country.
The objective, according to Google.org director ‘Jacquelline Fuller’, is to make sure that refugees are not only having the necessities required for survival but also the facilities required for living their normal lives. When compared to approximately 1 million refugees Germany registered last year, even 25,000 Chromebooks is a very small number.
Therefore, instead of offering Chromebooks to people, Project Reconnect is collaborating with non-profit organizations, which can use the devices to organize educational events for children and build Internet cafes. Under the tie up, Deutsche Telekom is providing a discount of the grant recipients for accessing broadband, which is essential, provided the fact that Chromebooks must be connected to the web for running most applications.
At the current moment, Project Reconnect would only be operating in Germany. Proving that donated funds are capable of making a difference at a level holds crucial importance, says UNHCR innovation lab, The Hive’s director Brian Reich.
Where Brian has appreciated the financial generosity of the Californian business, he said to find a solution of a problem of Refugee crisis. According to him, people need to focus less on individual donations size and more on where the funds donated would have a multiplying impact, meaning they prove beneficial for people apart from the direct beneficiaries.
The answer might be yes, but Brian states he would be undertaking careful analysis – the type at which Google is excelling at its for-profit work – for determining whether the donated money had a Google-sized effect. This is not the company’s first effort for pitching in abroad. Last fall, it pledged for providing donations to nonprofit organizations offering shelter and food to refugees in need. The enterprise also introduced Crisis Info Hub, a mobile app with details regarding transportation, lodging and more.
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