Education For All

NCC consolidated unwanted furniture from their first phase of schools at Goldings School (Northampton) and EfA cleared this school and Cliftonville Middle School in the Spring of 2007. This has been followed by completing the clearance of various blocks of the Northamptonshire School for Girls (NSG). Furniture cleared from these schools were as follows:

Goldings Middle School

35 computer desks

9 woodwork benches

133 student tables

281 student chairs

11 wooden cupboards

Cliftonville Middle School

99 secondary chairs

125 primary chairs

55 student tables

Northampton School for Girls

389 student chairs

5 woodwork benches

30 student desks

82 exam desks

This furniture is now in the process of following one of two sustainable routes:

1. Redistributing the reusable materials to our 50,000sq.ft UK depot or putting them in a container and sending them directly to Africa.

2. Recycling the low grade equipment in the UK, eg. dismantling a student table into metal legs and wood/mdf or a student chair into polypropylene and metal legs.

Through this process, EfA has been able to achieve greater than 90% landfill diversion which equates to an average 25-30t per 1,500 pupil secondary school.

The Deputy Head at Duston School, Gill Salver, was so taken by the idea of Education for All that she encouraged all her pupils to wash, iron and return their school uniform (they were changing school uniform when moving to their new school) so that EfA could re-distribute boxes of uniforms to their partner school in the Eastern Cape alongside the other donated items of books, IT equipment, furniture, sports and musical equipment.