Digital Poverty Alliance Provides Ukrainian Refugees With Digital Access

Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has provided financial and digital access to Ukrainian refugees in the United Kingdom through a recently formed partnership. Sincere education and cultural development (SECD).

Through the partnership, DPA will bring 100 laptops and prepaid SIM cards Ukrainian Cultural Center In London.

The center hosts the only Ukrainian school in the UK. St Mary’s Ukrainian Language SchoolAnd is the only one that offers education in Ukrainian.

Partnership is utilized Vodafoneof charities.connected A scheme to achieve this. This scheme distributes Vodafone-powered mobile SIM cards to individuals on behalf of charities.

Recently published Digital Poverty Evidence Review Digital exclusion has been found to significantly exacerbate existing inequality and impede education.

DPA is a charitable initiative that represents a broad coalition of third, public and private sector partners working to eradicate digital poverty.

The partnership with SECD aims to help families fleeing war by granting access to online services, including education.

The focus of the DPA is on advocating action to end UK digital poverty, but we are also working on a number of projects to ensure that the communities in need of help now receive it. ..

“We know that access to the online world is becoming more and more important, whether or not we have access to education, training and other basic public services.” Elizabeth AndersonCOO of DPA.

“But for these families, it’s an important way to reach friends and family they can leave, and it’s also about getting important information about their homeland left behind.

“I’m really proud to be able to support SECD as much as possible, and I would like to send my heartfelt wishes to my family.”

The partnership participates in FinTech’s extensive cohort of helping refugees in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.