Together, Anything is Possible

As part of the “Mutual Help Centre” established at the Technion with the start of the war, two Technion workers, Lior Goldberg and Michal Meir, organised a donation of laptops to the evacuee children from the Gaza Envelope.

“Haifa Municipality were the ones who approached us,” says Goldberg, Human Resources Coordinator at the Andrew & Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering. “Their support centre for evacuees who ended up in Haifa asked if we could assist in finding computers for the children.”

The Technion Supplies Unit helped Goldberg and Meir contact Ecommunity – a factory that recycles electronic waste and employs persons with disabilities. The Technion routinely transfers to Ecommunity electronic equipment that’s no longer in use.

“Ecommunity donated five laptops, which were brought to the Technion on Thursday” says Meir, Head of the Department of Prizes and Awards at the Faculty Office. “Lior and I drove to Dan Panorama Hotel, where the evacuee families are currently staying, to give the computers to children evacuated from Sderot. It’s exciting to see how the Technion volunteers, how we can help so directly those in need of help.

L-R: Michal Meir, Lior Goldberg, the mother of one of the Sderot children who received a laptop