By Jonathan Blackburn
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Prisoners at Glasgow’s infamous Barlinnie are helping to ensure Ukrainian children flourish during the ongoing war.
Men behind bars at Scotland’s largest jail are helping to refurbish IT equipment before it is sent to schools and orphanages in the war-ravaged country.
Prisoners have cleaned and refurbished thousands of end-of-life laptops and other digital devices over the last 18 months.
The programme is organised in association with Reusing IT, a Scottish charity focused on combating digital exclusion.
Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, the charity has focused on supplying everything from monitors, keyboards and power supply units to schools, colleges and orphanages so that children and young people can continue with their education.
Reusing IT is now the 4th largest donor of technology to Ukraine, after Google, UNICEF and HP.
The programme includes a group of prisoners organised by Prison Officer David Sneddon.
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