It’s been a very busy week charging, installing and setting up devices! We have now started distributing! It’s lovely to see lots of excited children

“Such great news for our family! Thank you very much”

“Thanks so much for your kind helps. My son Burak really likes it, he sends respects and love to you”

“Our entire family is very happy and thanks you for the device and Internet. This is a great support for us in this situation. As my son said, “‘mom, what a happy day it was!”

We are very excited to receive these phones from the #EveryoneConnected scheme, thanks to Google, Good Things Foundation and the National Lottery Community Fund for donating them. The devices are going to people whose quality of life has suffered during Covid-19 through lack of access to digital tech & skills training.

Week 1 Update:

Thank you to everyone who has donated and shared our Data Fund Crowdfunder – it is very much appreciated. Our initial target of £500 was beaten in just 3 days which was phenomenal. We have now reached £1320. We have already started distributing the data to asylum seekers so that they can access classes online and keep in touch with family and friends. Currently it looks like pandemic restrictions will be with us for a while, so it is brilliant to be able to support everybody’s health and wellbeing in this way. Thank you again!

We are excited to receive these tablets from the Connecting Families scheme. Thanks to Good Things Foundation & BBC Children in Need for donating. They will allow families to support their children to access educational resources & provide guidance to them to stay healthy & safe online #FixtheDigitalDivide

If you know a family with 2+ children that would benefit please refer them here: https://forms.gle/Php4JskXBWihu8wU9

We are raising funds to provide internet data for refugees and asylum seekers so that they can stay connected and learn online during the pandemic.

Show your support by donating here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/data-fund

The Covid-19 epidemic and data poverty has greatly affected our service users, who were already suffering from isolation and post traumatic stress disorder. We are currently providing a remote service to keep our users and volunteers safe. For the foreseeable future, this is taking place online, with English classes and one to one support. However, to participate, people need to be able to access the internet.

For this reason, we are raising funds to help combat digital poverty and to purchase internet data for asylum seekers and refugees, so they can continue learning English and stay connected with friends, family and essential services online.

Your support is very much appreciated!

As a volunteer with Learn for Life Enterprise, University of Sheffield Student, Isha, has been immersed into the local Sheffield community, discovered Sheffield’s diversity, and gained another family. Isha believes that other students should volunteer because “it opens up a horizon to discover and engage with an entirely different world” Read Isha’s #ShefVolStory by clicking here!

We are Good Things Foundation’s centre of the month – thank you for supporting us!

“Congratulations to our centre of the month, Learn for Life! The centre has done an amazing job at supporting individuals through lockdown providing them with remote support, setting up and delivering devices and going above and beyond to help the community.“

A poem for the Good Things Foundation by Learn for Life

It’s not that often you can stand
At one end of a city and
See the other end with ease
Through towers, terrace blocks and trees

“I am a city picnicking, I am peaks escaping
Scraping the sky
I am home
I am home working, waking, weaving
I am that endlessly glistening Sheffield”

I feel in control, in charge
At a strategic height
You feel serene
Relief from pain and think of the good future with hope

I like the people,
She says, they’re respectful
And the view
I find
It is very very beautiful

In my heart I feel good
As I see Sheffield
With its buildings and woods.