WCIT CHARITY SNAPSHOTS
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WCIT Charity Snapshots
These activities enable children to take control of their lives...it brings priceless joy to over 9000 children and their families...
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ivingstone House provides temporary accommodation for 92 homeless and vulnerable men and women. Residents may have had alcohol or substance misuse issues, mental health problems, be ex-offenders, or be homeless through domestic violence or abuse. The WCIT Charity helped Livingston House fund a new IT suite to equip residents with the life-skills to rebuild their lives and get back to independence. Steve Holdsworth, Fundraising Manager at Church Housing Trust, commented: “Many residents don’t have the computer skills needed in the jobs market today. Lots are nervous with computers and on-site IT Suites like ours gives them the confidence to gain those skills. We are enormously grateful to the WCIT for helping make this possible”
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ifelites is a longstanding strategic partner of the WCIT Charity and in December 2012 we gave £1,000, which attracted “Big Give” matched funding. The resulting £2,000 was enough to equip every one of the 49 Lifelites projects at babies and children’s hospices throughout the UK with a specially adapted mouse, custom-designed for the needs of severely disabled children. They’ll be able to do everything from building with Bob the Builder, to playing with Peppa Pig. Chief Executive Simone Enefer-Doy explained: “The WCIT understand the doors Lifelites technology opens to the severely disabled children we work with, these activities enable children to communicate, be creative and take control of their lives. It’s Giving kids with limited wonderful that the WCIT can help support us. It brings priceless life unlimite d possibilitie joy to over 9000 children and their s families”
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obocup is about education, IT and opportunity for young people; all issues important to the WCIT Charity. We contributed