Saracens Foundation Digital Divide Campaign
FAO: Secondary Schools
Does your school have students that have been impacted by the national lockdowns due to no access to devices at home for online learning?
Maro Itoje's Digital Divide Campaign in partnership with Saracens Foundation aims to support young people by providing schools devices to be distributed to students that do not have access to remote learning devices at home.
The Digital Divide Campaign’s Schools Round 1 Applications is now open. This round of applications is open to Mainstream and SEND Secondary Schools in North London and Hertfordshire.
Saracens Foundation Digital Divide Campaign Schools Round 1 Applications
Schools can Apply Here: https://forms.gle/RKxeJfFovWE7waUL6
Closing date Friday 29th January 2021
With children and young people having to learn from home and access online lessons and resources, the need for technology such as laptops and tablets has been vital. The Saracens Foundation will be delivering unused and professionally wiped laptops and tablets to children and young people across North London and Hertfordshire through schools, in order to support and improve the quality of their virtual learning experience.
The campaign is supported by Saracens and England player Maro Itoje who has expressed his deep concern for those children affected by the digital divide, he said “It is often said you judge a society on how they treat the vulnerable. Recent lockdowns have widened and exacerbated the negative consequences of the digital divide for the most vulnerable children in our society. This could potentially have real worrying ramifications on their life chances and the gap between the haves and have not will widen considerably if nothing is done to address this problem. The digital Divide in this country poses a real threat to our children and together we must do all we can to help these children”.
For further information about the campaign please contact digitaldivide@saracens.net